Dear Families, 

Your student will soon begin their sexual health unit in health class. We will be teaching the FLASH curriculum. FLASH is a medically accurate, age-appropriate comprehensive sexual health education curriculum. The goals of the curriculum are to prevent teen pregnancy, STDs and sexual violence, and to increase family communication about sexual health related topics such as dating, sex and abstinence. 

FLASH builds skills to support young people in remaining abstinent, as well as teaching about other methods of disease and pregnancy prevention. It promotes respectful communication, and builds skills for healthy relationships 

 FLASH provides a protocol for teachers when answering student questions about values that includes referring student back to families to learn their specific values. As a result, students may come home with questions about the values and expectations you have for them regarding these topics. We hope this will provide a meaningful opportunity for you to talk about these important topics together. 

 A list of the FLASH lessons that will be taught is provided below. If you have any questions or would like to preview a lesson, please come to our parent night on October 26th from 6-7 pm. Classes will be held starting Tuesday, Nov 1st.  

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Lesson 1: Introduction 

Lesson 2: Reproductive System 

Lesson 3: Pregnancy 

Lesson 4: Birth Control Methods 

Lesson 5: Condoms 

Lesson 6: STIs 

Lesson 7: Communication and Decision Making 

Lesson 8: Consent 

Lesson 9: School Heath Improvement 

If you would not like your student to opt your student opt your student out of some, or all of the classes please fill out and return the bottom portion of this paper. 

Thank you, 

Megan Winn and Tim Foley