| Nettle Creek School Corporation |
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2221 - MANDATORY CURRICULUM
In compliance with the Indiana Code, the School Board directs the Superintendent to prepare, implement, and supervise courses of instruction in the following areas as stipulated in the Indiana Code and the regulations of the State Department of Education:
| A. | The Constitution of the United States and Indiana | |
| B. | the system of government in Indiana and the United States, methods of voting, party structures, election laws, and the responsibilities of citizen participation in government and in elections | |
| C. | American History | |
| D. | safety education | |
| E. | the principles of hygiene and sanitary science | |
| F. | the spread of disease by rats, flies, and mosquitoes, and its effects, and of disease prevention by the proper selection and consumption of food | |
| G. | the nature of alcoholic beverages, tobacco, prescription drugs, narcotics, and their effects on the human system and society at large | |
| H. | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), and to the extent possible, instruction on other dangerous communicable diseases | |
| I. | instruction on human sexuality or sexually transmitted diseases | |
| J. | instruction regarding breast and testicular cancer, including the significance of early detection through self-examination, and in the case of breast cancer, regularly-scheduled mammographies | |
| K. | career-awareness in grades 1 - 12 | |
| L. | human donor program and blood donor program as part of the high school health education curriculum | |
| M. | good citizenship instruction |
The Superintendent shall prepare appropriate guidelines relative to the planning, teaching, and evaluation of these courses and ensure that each teacher present his/her instruction with special emphasis on honesty, morality, courtesy, obedience to the law, respect for the national flag, the constitutions of the United States and Indiana, respect for parents and the home, the dignity and necessity of honest labor, and other lessons of a steadying influence, which tend to promote and develop upright and desirable citizenry.
When required by law, the Board shall approve the course of instruction.
I.C. 20-10.1-4-1 et seq., 20-10.1-4-15
511 IAC Article 6