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LEVERETT SCHOOL COMMITTEE
VISITORS TO THE SCHOOLS
The School Committee
encourages parents and guests to visit classrooms to observe and learn about
the instructional programs taking place in our schools. Such visits can
prove most beneficial in promotion of greater school-home cooperation and
community understanding of how we carry out the school system's mission and
goals.
Visits by parents to several
classrooms in a given grade for the purposes of comparing teaching styles to
provide a basis for a request for student assignment to a particular teacher
are strongly discouraged because the School District's policy of assigning a
student to a particular class is the sole responsibility of the building
Principal in consultation with the staff of that school.
The following guidelines to
classroom and school visits should be followed:
1.
Parental requests for classroom visitations will be welcomed as long as the
educational process is not disrupted. To this end we request that such
requests be made at least forty-eight hours in advance to allow for proper
arrangements to be made.
2.
The building Principal has the authority to determine the number, date and time
and length of visits by visitors. This will be done in consultation with
staff members so as to give adequate notice to the staff members of the
impending visits.
3.
For security purposes it is requested that all visitors report to the
Principal's office upon entering and leaving the building and sign a guest log
showing arrival and departure times. Teachers are encouraged to ask visitors if
they have registered in the Principal's office.
4.
Under ordinary circumstances classroom observations will be strongly
discouraged during the first three weeks of school in September and during the
month of June.
5.
Any student who wishes to have a guest in school MUST ask permission of one of
the administrative staff 24 HOURS in advance of the proposed visit. If
permission is granted, the guest is expected to follow the standards of
behavior expected of all students. Upon arrival the guest must register in the
office. Any guest who fails to comply with student regulations will be asked to
leave the school building and grounds immediately.
CROSS REF.: IHBAA, Observations of Special Education
Programs
SOURCE: MASC
Reviewed and Edited by Leverett Policy Committee: 06-12-17
First reading by Leverett School Committee: 09-11-17
Second Reading, First Vote: 10/02/17
Final Vote: 11/06/17