| Talawanda School District |
| Bylaws & Policies |
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. The following guidelines have been provided to help ensure the effectiveness of parent involvement.
General Procedures:
| A. | All buildings will create strategies to identify barriers and a plan for effective parental involvement; | |
| B. | Individual buildings will communicate information concerning school performance profiles and their children's individual performance to parents; | |
| C. | Assist parents to help their children achieve the objectives of the program by such means as monitoring regular attendance, monitoring academic performance, providing intervention opportunities, guiding nutritional and health practices, and the like; | |
| D. | Parents will be provided information about the State's academic content standards, assessments, and ways to monitor their child's progress toward the child's achievement; | |
| E. | Staff will provide materials to help parents work with their children to improve achievement; | |
| F. | Provide regular communication from school through a building newsletter; | |
| G. | The parent involvement plan will be evaluated annually. |
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
Adopted 8/9/93
Revised 3/20/06