Virginia's standards for family life education provide a comprehensive, sequential K-12 curriculum. They include age-appropriate instruction in family living and community relationships, abstinence education, the value of postponing sexual activity, the benefits of adoption as a positive choice in the event of an unwanted pregnancy, human sexuality and human reproduction. Instruction is designed to promote parental involvement, foster positive self concepts and provide mechanisms for coping with peer pressure and the stresses of modern living according to the students' developmental stages and abilities. Parents have the right to review the complete family life curricula, including all supplemental materials used in any family life education program. View the Family Life Education standards on the VDOE website.
Opting to Remove your Child from All or Part of FLE:
Parents/guardians can opt their student out of all or part of the family life education lessons. An opt-out request form will be provided by the school prior to family life education instruction each school year. Parents/guardians can access the grade level course objectives and the opt-out request form on the appropriate grade level course page.
To indicate a decision to remove a child from all or part of family life education, complete the opt-out request form and return it to the child's teacher and/or school counselor. Parents should review the objectives carefully before making opt-out decisions.
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