(1) The benchmark for health enhancement content standard 6 for a student at the end of grade 8 is the ability to:

(a) describe how the behavior of family and peers affects interpersonal communication;

(b) demonstrate ways to communicate care, consideration, and respect of self and others;

(c) demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings;

(d) demonstrate refusal and mediation skills to enhance health; and

(e) demonstrate strategies to analyze and manage conflict in healthy ways.