Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 160-4-2-.12 - Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Program Plan
(1)
DEFINITIONS.
(a)
Alcohol and other drug use
education - a planned program of instruction that provides information
about the use, misuse and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, legal and illegal
drugs.
(b)
Disease prevention
education - a planned program of instruction that provides information
on how to prevent chronic and infectious diseases, including sexually
transmitted diseases.
(c)
Psychomotor skills - skills that use hands-on practice to support
cognitive learning for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and use of an
automated external defibrillator (AED).
(d)
Sex education/AIDS education
- a planned program that shall include instruction relating to the handling of
peer pressure, promotion of high self-esteem, local community values, and
abstinence from sexual activity as an effective method of preventing acquired
immune deficiency syndrome and the only sure method of preventing pregnancy and
sexually transmitted diseases. This instruction shall emphasize abstinence from
sexual activity until marriage and fidelity in marriage as important personal
goals.
(e)
Fitness assessment
program - annual assessment measuring and reporting health related
fitness in the areas of aerobic capacity, body composition, flexibility,
muscular strength, and muscular endurance.
(2)
REQUIREMENTS.
(a) The local board of education shall
develop and implement an accurate, comprehensive health and physical education
program that shall include information and concepts in the following areas.
1. Alcohol and other drug use
2. Disease prevention
3. Environmental health
4. Nutrition
5. Personal health
6. Sex education/AIDS education
7. Safety
8. Mental health
9. Growth and development
10. Consumer health
11. Community health
12. Health careers
13. Family living
14. Motor skills
15. Physical fitness
16. Lifetime sports
17. Outdoor education
18. Fitness assessment
(b) Each school containing any grade K-5
shall provide a minimum of 90 contact hours of instruction at each grade level
K-5 in health and physical education.
(c) Each school containing any grade 6-12
shall make available instruction in health and physical education.
(d) Each school containing any grade K-12
shall provide alcohol, tobacco, vapor products, and other drug use education on
an annual basis at each grade level.
(e) Each local board of education shall
develop procedures to allow parents and legal guardians to exercise the option
of excluding their child from sex education and AIDS prevention instructional
programs.
1. Sex education and AIDS education
shall be a part of a comprehensive health program.
2. Sex education shall also include annual
age-appropriate sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention education in
kindergarten through grade 9.
3.
Prior to the parent or legal guardian making a choice to allow his or her child
or ward to take the specified unit of instruction, he or she shall be told what
instruction is to be provided and have the opportunity to review all
instructional materials to be used, print and nonprint. Any parent or legal
guardian of a child to whom a course of study in sex education is to be taught
shall have the right to elect, in writing, that such child not receive such
course of study.
(f) Each
local board of education shall establish a committee to review periodically
sex/AIDS education instructional materials and make recommendations concerning
age/grade level use. Recommendations made by the committee shall be approved by
the local board of education before implementation. The committee shall be
composed primarily of nonteaching parents who have children enrolled in the
local public schools and who represent the diversity of the student body
augmented by others such as educators, health professionals and other community
representatives. The committee shall also include a male and female student
currently attending the 11th or 12th grade in the public schools.
(g) Each local school system shall conduct an
annual fitness assessment program, as approved and funded by the State Board of
Education, one time each school year for students in grades one through 12, to
be conducted only during a physical education course that is taught by a
certificated physical education teacher in which a student is enrolled. Such
assessments shall include methods deemed by the State Board of Education as
appropriate to ascertain levels of student physical fitness. Each local school
system shall report the individual results of the fitness assessment to the
parent or guardian of each student assessed and the aggregate results of the
fitness assessments by school to the State Board of Education annually in a
format approved and funded by the State Board of Education. The minimum
required contents of the report shall be determined by the State Board of
Education.
(h) Each local board of
education which operates a school with grades nine through 12 shall provide
instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated
external defibrillator to its students as a requirement within one of the
required health or physical education courses (Health (17.011), Health and
Personal Fitness (36.051), or Advanced Personal Fitness (36.061)) to satisfy
this requirement. Such instruction shall incorporate the psychomotor skills
necessary to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation and to use an automated
external defibrillator. Each local board of education shall report adherence to
this requirement as determined by the Georgia Department of Education. The
instructional program shall include either of the following:
1. An instructional program developed by the
American Heart Association or the American Red Cross, or
2. An instructional program which is
nationally recognized and is based on the most current national evidence based
emergency cardiovascular care guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and
the use of an automated external defibrillator.
(i) Each local board of education which
operates a school with grades 6 through 12 shall provide instruction in human
trafficking awareness on an annual basis at each grade level.
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