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CMR Family and Consumer Sciences

Prep for Life

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PREPARATION FOR LIFE
Length of Class: Semester, Sem 1 or Sem 2, ½ credit
Prerequisite: None
Grade level: 11, 12

This class will focus on and emphasize personal and social responsibility. Topics include communication skills, decision making, personal relationships, sexuality, and consumer responsibility. Relationships,independent living skills and personal finance will be covered.

Students will learn to: 
- use steps in the decision making process
- evaluate healthy vs. unhealthy relationships
- understand the responsibilities of teenage marriage, teen pregnancies and teen parenting
- understand the reasons for and responsibility of sexual behavior, STD's, HIV/AIDS, contraceptives
- be familiar with changing lifestyles: traditional vs. non-traditional lifestyles
- apply consumer knowledge to personal and family financial well-being
- learn about spending plans and how to choose housing, transportation, and make other consumer decisions.



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