Outline of the state of Oklahoma
State
Oklahoma
Addresses at least one component

Category
Sexual Health Education General—MS

Category
Sexual Health Education General—MS

State law addresses at least one component of a comprehensive sex education curriculum, appropriate to grade level.

Oklahoma Administrative Code 210:15-17-2 AIDS prevention program

(a) Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) prevention education shall be taught in the public schools of this state. AIDS prevention education shall be limited to the discussion of the disease AIDS and its spread and prevention. Students shall receive such education:

  • (1) at the option of the local school district, a minimum of once during the period from grade five through grade six;
  • (2) a minimum of once during the period from grade seven through grade nine; and
  • (3) a minimum of once during the period from grade ten through grade twelve.

(b) A school district may develop its own AIDS prevention education curriculum and materials or use those developed by the State Department of Education. Any curriculum and materials developed for use in the public schools shall be approved for medical accuracy by the State Department of Health and must be limited to factual medical information for AIDS prevention.

(c) AIDS prevention education shall specifically teach students that:

  • (1) engaging in homosexual activity, promiscuous sexual activity, intravenous drug use or contact with contaminated blood products is now known to be primarily responsible for contact with the AIDS virus;
  • (2) avoiding the activities specified above is the only method of preventing the spread of the virus;
  • (3) sexual intercourse, with or without condoms, with any person testing positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies, or any other person infected with HIV, places that individual in a high risk category for developing AIDS.
  • (4) abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain means for the prevention of the spread or contraction of the AIDS virus through sexual contact; and
  • (5) that artificial means of birth control are not a certain means of preventing the spread of the AIDS virus and reliance on such methods puts a person at risk for exposure to the disease.

(d) School districts shall make the curriculum and materials available for inspection by the parents and guardians of the students that will be involved with the curriculum and materials. The school districts, at least one month prior to teaching AIDS prevention education in any classroom, shall conduct for the parents and guardians of the students involved, during weekend and evening hours, at least one presentation concerning the curriculum and materials that will be used for such education. No student shall be required to participate in AIDS prevention education if a parent or guardian of the student objects in writing to such participation.

Policy Type
Regulation

Oklahoma Administrative Code 210:15-3-152 HIV/AIDS prevention education for grades 7 through 12

a) Investigate and examine current information about HIV/AIDS in order to differentiate related facts, opinions, and myths.

(b) Examine and identify the importance of sexual abstinence in adolescent relationships.

(c) Demonstrate refusal skills (saying "no"), negotiation skills and peer resistance skills related to sexual health.

(d) Analyze the transmission and methods of prevention for sexually transmitted disease (STD) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

(e) Identify risk behaviors and situations involving possible exposure to HIV.

(f) Examine the relationships between injecting drug use (IDU) and contact with contaminated blood products and the transmission of HIV.

(g) Analyze the efficiency of artificial means of birth control in preventing the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Policy Type
Regulation

Oklahoma Statutes 70-11-103.3. AIDS prevention education - Curriculum and materials - Inspection by parents and guardians.

A. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) prevention education shall be taught in the public schools of this state. AIDS prevention education shall be limited to the discussion of the disease AIDS and its spread and prevention. Students shall receive such education:

  1. at the option of the local school district, a minimum of once during the period from grade five through grade six;

  2. a minimum of once during the period from grade seven through grade nine; and 3. a minimum of once during the period from grade ten through grade twelve.

B. The State Department of Education shall develop curriculum and materials for AIDS prevention education in conjunction with the State Department of Health. A school district may also develop its own AIDS prevention education curriculum and materials. Any curriculum and materials developed for use in the public schools shall be approved for medical accuracy by the State Department of Health. A school district may use any curriculum and materials which have been developed and approved pursuant to this subsection.

C. School districts shall make the curriculum and materials that will be used to teach AIDS prevention education available for inspection by the parents and guardians of the students that will be involved with the curriculum and materials. Furthermore, the curriculum must be limited in time frame to deal only with factual medical information for AIDS prevention. The school districts, at least one (1) month prior to teaching AIDS prevention education in any classroom, shall conduct for the parents and guardians of the students involved during weekend and evening hours at least one presentation concerning the curriculum and materials that will be used for such education. No student shall be required to participate in AIDS prevention education if a parent or guardian of the student objects in writing to such participation.

D. AIDS prevention education shall specifically teach students that:

  1. engaging in homosexual activity, promiscuous sexual activity, intravenous drug use or contact with contaminated blood products is now known to be primarily responsible for contact with the AIDS virus;

  2. avoiding the activities specified in paragraph 1 of this subsection is the only method of preventing the spread of the virus; 3. sexual intercourse, with or without condoms, with any person testing positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies, or any other person infected with HIV, places that individual in a high risk category for developing AIDS.

E. The program of AIDS prevention education shall teach that abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain means for the prevention of the spread or contraction of the AIDS virus through sexual contact. It shall also teach that artificial means of birth control are not a certain means of preventing the spread of the AIDS virus and reliance on such methods puts a person at risk for exposure to the disease.

Policy Type
Statute

Oklahoma Statutes 70-11-105.1. Sex education - Approval of curriculum and materials.

A. All curriculum and materials including supplementary materials which will be used to teach or will be used for or in connection with a sex education class or program which is designed for the exclusive purpose of discussing sexual behavior or attitudes, or any test, survey or questionnaire whose primary purpose is to elicit responses on sexual behavior or attitudes shall be available through the superintendent or a designee of the school district for inspection by parents and guardians of the student who will be involved with the class, program or test, survey or questionnaire. Such curriculum, materials, classes, programs, tests, surveys or questionnaires shall include information about consent and shall have as one of its primary purposes the teaching of or informing students about the practice of abstinence. For the purposes of this section, "consent" shall have the same meaning as that provided by Section 113 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

Policy Type
Statute

Program of Excellence Safe and Healthy Schools

Rubric recommends that health education programs address essential topics to prevent HIV, STDs, and pregnancy.

Policy Type
Non-codified