Cedar Springs Public School District
Administrative Guidelines
 

5230 - EARLY DISMISSAL

Board of Education policy requires that the following guidelines be followed for early dismissal of any student.

 

A.

Only principals or his/her designee may release a student from school before the end of the school day.

   
 

B.

Principals or his/her designee may release students before the end of a school day only upon presentation of a written an/or face-to-face and/or phone call request from the child's parent or for emergency reasons.

   
 

C.

Requests for early dismissal should be submitted to the principal as early in the school day as possible.

   
 

D.

Students may be released only to a parent, or to a properly-identified person authorized to act on their behalf.

     
 

E.

A student may be released "on his/her own" only with verified parental permission.

     
 

F.

When a parent telephones a request that a child be released early from school, the identity of the caller and any custodial arrangements should be confirmed before the child is permitted to leave. The caller should be asked detailed questions about the child. These questions might include the child's date of birth, the courses s/he is studying, names of teachers and classmates, and similar facts which should be known to his/her parents.

   
 

G.

Whenever a student travels from his/her school to another school for lessons, during school hours signed permission must be obtained from the parent before such trips are approved by the principal.

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