Health and Wellness is a semester course which will meet the health requirement needed for graduation. This course is designed to complement and build upon the middle school health course. Health and Wellness is designed to enable our students to be responsible, respectful, informed and capable when making decisions which would impact upon the well being of themselves and others.

Health & Wellness will investigate a range of human interactions.  Areas to be explored include making responsible decisions; communicating effectively; mental & emotional health; building self-esteem; adolesence relationships & responsibilities; the use, misuse & abuse of drugs, alcohol and tobacco; human sexuality; families & family relationships, preventing abuse & violence; and peer pressure.

Issues of human sexuality will include the physical, emotional and social systems and their interaction regarding sexuality, advantages of postponing sexual involvement and the risks of not doing so. Consistent with the Michigan law, parents have the right to review the instructional materials in this unit and should contact the course instructor if they wish to do so.

Parents also have the right to remove their child from this portion of the class without penalty to the student. The student will be given an alternative, individual assignment to make the points for the unit. Parents should contact the principal and teacher in writing to do so.

Emphasis is placed on the acceptance of responsibility by each student.  Each individual must be responsible for his/her own health and behavior and must continually search for ways to better understand health maintenance and human interactions.