The Higley Unified School District Governing Board debated how the district should inform parents about potentially sensitive or explicit material in high school courses, turning a routine review of the 2026–27 course guides into a hot topic.

The draft guides include updates such as changing course titles, adjusting prerequisites and clarifying descriptions. But Board Member Anna Van Hoek pressed administrators on why individual course descriptions do not explicitly warn parents when a class could include content some families may find objectionable.

“In the course guide description for each class, there’s nothing that tells parents that that class might contain sensitive information,” Van Hoek said. “I would like for the course description to have some sort of verbiage to say that there

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