and HIV/AIDS prevention education and research on pupil health behaviors and risks planned for the coming year. The notice shall include all of the following: Advise the parent or guardian that written and audiovisual educational materials used in comprehensive sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention education are available for inspection. Advise the parent or guardian whether the comprehensive sexual health education or HIV/AIDS prevention education will be taught by school district personnel or by outside consultants. Information explaining the or right to request a copy of parent’s guardian’s Chapter 5.6 of the Education Code (commencing with Section 51930 et seq.). Advise the parent or guardian that the parent or guardian may request in writing that his or her child not receive comprehensive sexual health education or HIV/AIDS prevention education. Anonymous, voluntary and confidential research and evaluation tools to measure pupils’ health behaviors and risks, including tests, questionnaires, and surveys containing questions about the attitudes concerning or practices relating to sex pupils’ may be administered to pupils in grades 7-12. Parents or guardians shall be notified in writing and given the opportunity to review such tests, questionnaires and surveys. A parent or guardian has the right to excuse his or her child from all or part of the above. A pupil shall not be subject to disciplinary action, academic penalty, or other sanction if the parent/guardian does not permit the pupil to receive the instruction. While the instruction is being delivered, an alternative educational activity shall be made available to those pupils whose parent/guardian have requested that they not receive the instruction. Please note: The upper grade Family Life and/or HIV/AIDS prevention education is taught by nurses and/or personnel employed by the Tulare County Office of Education. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AND SCOLIOSIS SCREENING State law requires that the parent/guardian of a pupil entering the first grade must submit to the school written proof that his/her child had a physical examination with the time period of eighteen months prior to entry and ninety days after entry to the first grade. The school district is required to screen every seventh grade girl and eighth grade boy for scoliosis (curvature of the spine). The school district nurses (via the of Education) will screen all fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students. The parent/guardian has the right to submit to the school a written request that the pupil not participate in this screening program.
and HIV/AIDS prevention education and research on pupil health behaviors and risks planned for the coming year. The notice shall include all of the following: Advise the parent or guardian that written and audiovisual educational materials used in comprehensive sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention education are available for inspection. Advise the parent or guardian whether the comprehensive sexual health education or HIV/AIDS prevention education will be taught by school district personnel or by outside consultants. Information explaining the parent’s or guardian’s right to request a copy of Chapter 5.6 of the Education Code (commencing with Section 51930 et seq.). Advise the parent or guardian that the parent or guardian may request in writing that his or her child not receive comprehensive sexual health education or HIV/AIDS prevention education. Anonymous, voluntary and confidential research and evaluation tools to measure pupils’ health behaviors and risks, including tests, questionnaires, and surveys containing questions about the pupils’ attitudes concerning or practices relating to sex may be administered to pupils in grades 7-12. Parents or guardians shall be notified in writing and given the opportunity to review such tests, questionnaires and surveys. A parent or guardian has the right to excuse his or her child from all or part of the above. A pupil shall not be subject to disciplinary action, academic penalty, or other sanction if the parent/guardian does not permit the pupil to receive the instruction. While the instruction is being delivered, an alternative educational activity shall be made available to those pupils whose parent/guardian have requested that they not receive the instruction. Please note: The upper grade Family Life and/or HIV/AIDS prevention education is taught by nurses and/or personnel employed by the Tulare County Office of Education. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AND SCOLIOSIS SCREENING State law requires that the parent/guardian of a pupil entering the first grade must submit to the school written proof that his/her child had a physical examination with the time period of eighteen months prior to entry and ninety days after entry to the first grade. The school district is required to screen every seventh grade girl and eighth grade boy for scoliosis (curvature of the spine). The school district nurses (via the of Education) will screen all fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students. The parent/guardian has the right to submit to the school a written request that the pupil not participate in this screening program.
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