233.0612  Authorized instruction.--Each school district may provide students with programs and instruction at the appropriate grade levels in areas including, but not limited to, the following:

(1)  Character development and law education. Each school board shall be encouraged to install in the elementary schools of the district a program in character development which is the same as or similar to the Character Counts or Character First! Education Series. The programs must be secular in nature and stress such character qualities as attentiveness, patience, and initiative.

(2)  The objective study of the Bible and religion.

(3)  Traffic education.

(4)  Free enterprise and consumer education.

(5)  Programs to encourage patriotism and greater respect for country.

(6)  Drug abuse resistance education.

(7)  Comprehensive health education.

(8)  Care of nursing home patients.

(9)  Instruction in acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

(10)  Voting instruction, including the use of county voting machines.

(11)  Before-school and after-school programs.