Policies » Section I: Instruction » IHAM: Health Education and Exemption from Instruction

Policy Date: 02/11/2025

ASD File: IHAM

AUBURN SCHOOL DISTRICT
HEALTH EDUCATION AND EXEMPTION FROM INSTRUCTION

Consistent with Department of Education requirements, health and physical education including
the human reproductive system and human sexual health, will be included in the instructional
program.

Instruction must be appropriate to grade level, course of study, and development of students.
The Superintendent will require that faculty members who present this instruction receive
continuing in-service training, which includes appropriate teaching strategies and techniques.

Parents/guardians will have the right to inspect and review health and physical instruction
materials that will be made reasonably accessible to parents/guardians and others to the extent
practicable.

Parents/guardians shall be notified by e-mail, other written means, website/social media postings
or phone call, not less than two (2) weeks in advance of use of the curriculum course material to
be used for instruction of human sexuality, human sexual education, sexual orientation, gender,
gender identity, or gender oppression, and that the material is available for inspection at the
school. The notice will identify and provide contact information for the member of staff or faculty
whom a parent or guardian should contact to arrange an opportunity to inspect the curriculum
course material.

Opt-Out Procedure and Form

Parents/guardians, or students over eighteen years of age, who do not want their child to
participate in a particular unit of health or physical education instruction for religious reasons or
religious objections, are allowed to have their child opt-out of such instruction.

Parents/guardians who wish to have their child opt-out of such instruction are required to
complete the district opt-out form and state the particular unit of the curriculum in which the
student is not to participate. Any student who is exempted by request of the parent/guardian
under this policy may be given an alternative assignment sufficient to meet state requirements
for health education. The alternative assignment will be provided by the health or physical
education teacher in conjunction with the Principal.

Parents/guardians who do not want their child to participate in a particular unit of health or
physical education must complete a Health or Physical Education Opt-Out Form. Opt-Out Forms
are available from either the health education teacher or the Principal.

Opt-out requests must be submitted annually and are valid only for the school year in which they
are submitted.

Adopted: June 9, 2009
Revised: January 9, 2018, February 11, 2025

Legal References:
NH Admin Rules, Sec. Ed 306.40, Health Education Program, NH Admin Rules, Sec. Ed 306.41,
Physical Education Program, RSA 186:11, IX-b, Notice to Parents/Guardian Required, RSA
186:11, IX-b, Heath and Sex Education, US Constitution 1232h, (c) (1) (C), Protection of Pupil
Rights

Appendix IHAM-R, Health Education Exemption: Opt-Out Form