Category
Health Education K-12 Curriculum—Alcohol and Drug Use or Abuse—MS
Category
Health Education K-12 Curriculum—Alcohol and Drug Use or Abuse—MS
State law addresses alcohol and Drug-use/abuse.
17 V.I.C. _ 41
c)All public schools in the Virgin Islands shall instruct all students in:
- (3)Family life, sex education, and substance abuse, such subjects to be part of the health curriculum for grades K through 12, additionally an AIDS prevention education program shall be part of the health curriculum for grades kindergarten through 12;
17 V.I.C. § 57
he school week following the first Sunday in February of each year is hereby designated as Alcohol Education Week in the public schools of the Territory of the Virgin Islands
17 V.I.C. § 58
uring this week, each school principal or other designated person shall instruct each class from the seventh grade upward for at least 30 minutes on 3 days concerning the risks and dangers involved in the use of alcoholic beverages and narcotics. The principal, or such other designated person, shall also have at least one assembly session during the week of not less than 45 minutes, at which time the subject of the dangerous effect of alcohol shall be presented.