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2111 - PARENT INVOLVEMENT IN THE SCHOOL PROGRAM
The Board of Education believes that durable and significant learning by a student is more likely to occur when there is an effective partnership between the school and the student's parents. Such a partnership means a mutual belief in and commitment to significant educational goals for a student, a collaboration on the means for accomplishing those goals, cooperation on developing and implementing solutions to problems that may be encountered, and continuing communication regarding the progress in accomplishing the goals.
The Superintendent shall implement administrative guidelines by which a school-parent partnership can be established and maintained throughout the student's career in the District. Such guidelines should encompass parent participation, through meetings and other forms of communication, in:
| A. | developing and implementing appropriate strategies for helping their child achieve the learning objectives that lead to accomplishing the learning outcomes; | |
| B. | providing a school and home environment which encourages learning and augments, at home, the learning experiences provided by the school; | |
| C. | establishing and supporting a consistent and shared approach to child guidance and discipline; | |
| D. | providing for the proper health, safety, and well-being for their child. |
Relations with Parents
The Board feels that it is the parents who have the ultimate responsibility for their children's behavior, including the behavior of students who have reached the legal age of majority, but are still, for all practical purposes, under parental authority. During school hours, the Board, through its designated administrators, recognizes the responsibility to monitor students' behavior and, as with academic matters, the importance of cooperation between the school and the parents in matters relating to conduct.
For the benefit of the child, the Board believes that parents have a responsibility to encourage their child's career in school by:
| A. | supporting the schools in requiring their child observe all school rules and regulations, and by accepting their own responsibility for their child's willful in-school behavior; | |
| B. | sending their children to school with proper attention to his/her health, personal cleanliness, and dress; | |
| C. | maintaining an active interest in their child's daily work and making it possible for him/her to complete assigned homework by providing a quiet place and suitable conditions for study; | |
| D. | reading all communications from the school, signing, and returning them promptly when required; | |
| E. | cooperating with the school in attending conferences set up for the exchange of information of their child's progress in school. |
R.C. 3313.472