AWould this approach diminish the family’s role in teaching kids about health?
The coordinated approach is designed to support the family in teaching health knowledge and skills. School health should reinforce the healthy behaviors that parents teach at home and provide opportunities for practicing those behaviors in another setting. Given the complexity of today’s world, it is probably impossible for parents to teach every aspect of health. Teachers and other professionals who have current knowledge of health issues — from healthful eating and exercising to drugs and tobacco prevention — can present information that can help kids prevent many problems and diseases later in life.
