Ninth graders participate in Family Life Education unit through health and physical education class for human growth and development and emotional and social health units. In tenth grade, students study human growth and development during health class.  

During ninth and tenth grades, students continue building on their base of knowledge regarding human reproduction, sexually transmitted infection prevention, and the skills needed to make health decisions. In grades nine and ten, students learn how maturation affects adolescent development and learn to recognize the development of sexuality as a lifelong aspect of personality. Students are provided definitions for heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual, and transgender and that all persons deserve to be treated with respect regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Students are taught that substance use/abuse affects decision making and that abstinence from sexual activity is the only way to guarantee the prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. The issue of dating abuse and violence to include human trafficking and sexual assault (grade 10) is instructed and students are taught prevention strategies and resources for help and assistance when it is needed.

During grades eleven and twelve, students continue their study of sexually transmitted infections, contraception, and exploitation to include human trafficking and sexual assault.  Students in grades 11 and 12 receive FLE instruction through social studies courses.  Grade twelve has a lesson on Virginia laws that pertain to family and family life education topics.

Grade Level Program Descriptions