Letter to parents reagrding Family
Life / Sex Education Unit
The General Assembly of the State
of Illinois has enacted legislation that requires every high school
student in the state to receive at least one semester of instruction
in "health education." This legislation also requires
that the health education program include the study of "human
growth and development," an area that includes topics generally
considered a part of sex education.
In order to meet these requirements
Community High School has developed a health education class that
is taught to all freshman students. The Administration and Board
of Education of District 94 have reviewed the content of this
course and believe that the program is needed. In recognition
of the sensitive nature of the unit on human growth and development,
the Board has established certain guidelines for instruction,
which it feels, are necessary to keep the moral and ethical questions
that accompany this topic in perspective. These guidelines include:
- the fact that moral issues, dilemmas and choices
are involved in the areas must be stressed,
- all sides of controversial issues must be presented
objectively,
- the school must avoid the advocacy of a particular
moral position or practice,
- instruction should be presented in a dignified
and respectful manner, and
- the Administration should monitor the program
as closely as possible.
Your freshman son or daughter
is enrolled in the school's health education program. However,
the Illinois School Code states that as a parent or guardian you
have the right to examine the instructional materials used in
the unit on human growth and development before it is taught,
and that you may choose to exclude your student from that specific
unit. If you wish to examine the instructional materials used
in the human growth unit and/or speak to the chairperson of the
Health Department regarding the exclusion of a student, please
contact Mr. Dan Johnson at 630/876-6470.
Sincerely,
Dan Johnson,
Department Chairman
Health - PE - Drivers' Ed.
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