Family Life Education Opt-Out Tips

Because of the highly sexualized nature of some of the materials used in public school family life education (FLE) classes, parents should be familiar with the rights they have regarding this curriculum.

Family Life Education Parent Resource Center (With Opt-Out Forms)

This link takes you to The Family Foundation’s FLE Parent Resource Center, which provides parents with links to each county/city school division’s website, parent portals, links to any online sex-ed curriculum, and FLE opt-out forms for download and print. It also provides links to helpful and safe alternative educational resources that may better align with your family’s values and beliefs.

Parental Opt-Out Notice for “LGBTQ+” Curriculum in Virginia Public Schools

This model template is for Christian parents to give to school administrators to exclude their child from exposure to or participation in all assignments, curriculum, literature, or festivities having to do with issues involving “LGBTQ+” while in school. Parents of other faiths can simply modify this template to reflect statements from their own faith.

Complaint Form for Violation of the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA)

PPRA is a federal law that affords certain rights to parents of students attending K-12 schools with regards to any survey, analysis, or evaluation that asks students to reveal information of a personal nature. (e.g. sex behaviors and attitudes, religious or political beliefs, etc.) School districts are required to obtain written consent before students are required to submit to a survey that contains one or more of eight protected areas, if the survey is funded by the federal Department of Education. For surveys that contain questions about these areas that are not funded with Department funds, the school district must notify parents at least annually, at the beginning of the school year, of the specific or approximate date(s) of the survey and provide parents with an opportunity to opt their children out of participating, regardless of whether the survey is anonymous or whether participation in the survey is voluntary. If you believe the school has violated this policy, consider filling out the Complaint Form especially if the school is uncooperative.