Required Instruction

Florida Required Instruction

Each district school board shall provide all courses required for middle grades promotion, high school graduation, and appropriate instruction designed to ensure that students meet State Board of Education adopted standards in the following subject areas: reading and other language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, foreign languages, health and physical education, and the arts. The state board must remove a middle grades course in the Course Code Directory that does not fully integrate all appropriate curricular content required by s.1003.41 and may approve a new course only if it meets the required curricular content.

Health Education provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to be healthy throughout their lifetime. The intent of a comprehensive health education program is to motivate students to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and avoid or reduce health-related risk behaviors. Comprehensive health education addresses 12 component areas under Florida State Statute 1003.42 (2)(n) – Required Instruction.

St. Lucie Public Schools supports the comprehensive health education model whereby instruction teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage as the expected standard for all school-age students as required in Florida State Statute 1003.46. Abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, or other associated health problems.