Best Practices for “Human Growth & development

WILL:

Wisconsin Statute § 118.019 governs human growth and development (HGD) instruction. This is
essentially the sex education curriculum in Wisconsin. Public school districts are not required to adopt an HGD curriculum, but once they do, certain requirements are triggered.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE ROLE AND REQUIREMENTS
The advisory committee MUST be made up of parents, teachers, school administrators, pupils, health care professionals, members of the clergy, and other residents of the school district. Id.

No one category of member shall constitute more than one fifth of the membership of the committee,
except that parents may comprise more than one-fifth the membership of the committee. No more than one quarter of the members of the committee may be made up of employees of the school district or their spouses, or members of the school board or their spouses. Id.

The committee MUST review the HGD curriculum for the district. Id.

The committee MUST advise the school board on the implementation