NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 65

SENATE BILL 126

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 115 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO REQUIRE INSTRUCTION IN THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM IN THE PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS OF THE STATE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 115-37 is amended by rewriting the same as follows:

"§ 115-37.  Subjects taught in public schools. — County and city boards of education shall provide for the efficient teaching in each grade of all subjects included in the outline course of study prepared by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, which course of study at the appropriate grade levels shall include instruction in Americanism, government of the State of North Carolina, government of the United States, fire prevention, harmful or illegal drugs, including alcohol, and the free enterprise system at the high school level, its history, theory, foundation, and the manner in which it is actually practiced. Nothing in this Chapter shall prohibit city or county boards of education from operating a nongraded system in which pupils are taught at their individual learning levels."

Sec. 2.  The second sentence of the second paragraph in G.S. 115-198 is amended by deleting at the end thereof the period and adding the following punctuation and words ", and the free enterprise system at the high school level."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective beginning with the 1975-76 school year.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of March, 1975.