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Policy

Community Relations

PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN SCHOOLS

It is the policy of this school district to foster and facilitate, to the extent appropriate, parental information about, and involvement in, the education of their children. Along these lines:

A. Textbooks, tests, and other curriculum materials used in this school district are, and shall be, available for review by parents at school upon request. Since textbooks, tests, and other curriculum materials constantly change, and may be discarded when no longer needed by school district, parents wishing to review such items must govern their requests accordingly.

B. Parents are welcome to visit school. Parents wishing to attend and monitor courses, assemblies, counseling sessions and other instructional activities must obtain prior approval of and from the proper teacher, counselor, and administrator, or they may be asked to leave. Parents attending or monitoring courses, assemblies, counseling sessions, and other instructional activities with prior approval who, by their conduct or presence interfere with the educational process or constitute an interference with school purposes, will be asked to leave.

C. The school district may excuse students from testing, classroom instruction, and other school experiences, upon parental request, when the testing, classroom instruction or other school experience interferes with sincerely held family or religious beliefs. Parental requests must be in writing and submitted to the proper teacher and administrator a reasonable time prior to the testing, classroom instruction, or other school experience and must be accompanied by written reasons acceptable to the school district or for which an excuse is mandated by law. A plan for an acceptable alternative shall be approved by the proper teacher and administrator prior to, or as a part of, the granting of any parental request.

D. Parents and others will be provided access to records of students according to law (e.g.1 Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C. Section 1232g or Section 79-4, 157, R.R.S.1 et seq.);

E. Testing shall occur in this school district as determined

appropriate from time to time by district staff to assure proper measurement of educational progress and achievement.

F. Participation in surveys by students shall occur in this district from time to time when determined appropriate by district staff for educational purposes. Students may decline to participate in surveys. Parents may request in advance that their child not participate in a survey. Surveys shall consist of those instruments in which students are asked questions in which they provide an opinion and which are not graded by staff. District staff shall notify parents and shall seek approval from their building principal when surveying students on topics which may be deemed sensitive. Sensitive topics shall include but not be limited to political affiliations, mental or psychological problems, sex behavior or attitudes, illegal, antisocial or self-incriminating behavior, critical appraisals of individuals with whom the child has close family relationship; religious practices and affiliations; or questions about income.

R.R.S. LB 1161 (1994)

Adopted: June 19, 1995

Revised: August 18, 2003