File: IMBB - Exemptions from Required Instruction

If the religious or closely held personal beliefs and teachings of a student or the student's parent/guardian are contrary to the content of a school subject or to any part of a school activity, the student may be exempt from participation. To receive such an exemption, the parent/guardian must present a written request for exemption to the school principal, stating the conflict involved. Requests for exemption regarding some or all of the district's curriculum concerning human sexuality shall be in accordance with the Board's policy on health and family life/sex education.

If a student is unable to participate in a physical education class, the student must present to the school principal a statement from a physician or other licensed health care professional stating the reason for the inability to participate.

Exemptions from required instruction do not excuse a student from the district's requirements for graduation from high school.

Current practice codified 1991

Adopted: date of manual adoption, January 14, 1992

Revised July 23, 2014

Reviewed August 21, 2023

CROSS REF.: IHAM, Health and Family Life/Sex Education