Youth Protection
Choosing the Best

Choosing the Best is a multi-tiered health education program provided to the students in Carrollton-Farmers Branch. While it presents an abstinence–focused curriculum for all students in grades five, seven, and nine, it also offers age appropriate insights into what is happening with students’ bodies and the accompanying emotions. Each grade level has six to eight lessons that empower students to make appropriate decisions as teens and for the rest of their lives. You as parents will begin seeing workbooks and parent involved exercises come home with your students.

The fifth grade program, Choosing the Best Way, includes lessons on character building and goal setting.

The middle school program, Choosing the Best Path, includes more in depth discussions of sex and related sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/Aids. Students are taught to continue set high goals for themselves by setting their own boundaries and being assertive when it comes to their own bodies and making their own personal choices.

The high school program, Choosing the Best Life, encompasses the areas of self-discipline and self respect, as well as once again taking responsibility for one’s actions. Topics include sex and emotions, as well as the influences of drugs and alcohol, teen pregnancy, love and limits, and the courage to say “NO”.

Choosing the Best has been presented across the nation since 1993 to more than one million students. Please go to their website for more information at http://www.choosingthebest.com.