Health and Sex Education Guidelines— All health and sex education shall stress the importance of abstinence from all sexual activity before marriage and fidelity after marriage as methods of preventing sexually transmitted diseases. The curriculum and education shall also stress personal skills that encourage individual choice of abstinence and fidelity in marriage. At no time may instruction be provided, including responses to spontaneous questions raised by students, regarding any means or methods that facilitate or encourage the violation of any state or federal criminal law by a minor or an adult. Nothing in this policy precludes an educator from responding to a spontaneous question provided that the response is consistent with this policy. Utah Code § 53G-10-402(2)(b), (e)(i) (2019) The following may not be taught in District schools: 1. the intricacies of intercourse, sexual stimulation, or erotic behavior; 2. the advocacy of premarital or extramarital sexual activity; or 3. the advocacy or encouragement of the use of contraceptive methods or devices. Utah Admin. Rules R277-474-3(1) (November 7, 2018) Utah Code § 53G-10-402(2)(b)(iii) (2019) The District may, under curriculum adopted in accordance with this policy, provide instruction which includes information about contraceptive methods or devices and which stresses effectiveness, limitations, risks, and information on state law applicable to minors obtaining contraceptive methods or devices. Utah Code § 53G-10-402(2)(b)(iv) (2019) Sexual Abuse Prevention and Awareness— Schools in the District may provide instruction to elementary school students on child sexual abuse and human trafficking prevention and awareness using the instructional materials approved by the State Board of Education for that purpose. However, before an individual student may receive this instruction, the student’s parent must be notified in advance of the instruction and the content of the instruction and of the parent’s right to have the student excused from the instruction, given an opportunity to review the instruction materials, and be allowed to be present when the instruction is delivered. A parental permission form (as outlined above) must be received for each student before that student receives the instruction. Upon the written request of a parent, a student shall be excused from the instruction. Utah Code § 53G-9-207(4), (5) (2019) Instructional Staff Training and In-service— District staff who have responsibility for some aspect of sex education instruction in the District may include administrators, teachers, counselors, teacher’s assistants, or coaches, but are not necessarily limited to those categories. In their first year of service or assignment, all newly hired or newly assigned District staff who have responsibility for any aspect of sex education instruction in the District will attend a State- sponsored in-service outlining the sex education curriculum and the criteria for sex education instruction in any courses offered in the public education system.
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