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property owned by or under the control of the School Board, caused or committed by such
pupil in pursuit of his studies. Such action may include seeking reimbursement from a pupil
or pupil’s parent for any such loss, breakage, or destruction of or failure to return school
property.
COLLECTION OFMONIES/FEES/EQUIPMENT
It is the responsibility of parents to pay for the repair and/or replacement of school board
owned property and/or equipment when it has been damaged and/or lost by their child. It
is the expectation of the Wythe County School Board that this remuneration be submitted
immediately to the school principal. Each school is to keep a list of all financial obligations
that a parent is obligated to pay resulting from the above. This record is to remain a part of
each student’s record until all financial obligations have been satisfied. A student may not
participate in the graduation ceremony of his/her school until he/she has met all of his/her
financial obligations to the Wythe County Public Schools.
It is the responsibility of parents to pay for student meals either in advance or at the time the
meal is served. Students are not permitted to charge a meal in the school cafeteria.
Failure to have these funds will result in a referral to the appropriate authorities.
ANNUALNOTIFICATIONS TO STUDENT/PARENTS
COMPULSORY SCHOOLATTENDANCE LAW
§22.1-254 Ages of children required to attend
A. Every parent, guardian, or other person in the Commonwealth having control
or charge of any child who will have reached the fifth birthday on or before
September 30 of any school year and who has not passed the eighteenth birthday
shall, during the period of each year the public schools are in session and for the
same number of days and hours per day as the public schools, send such child
to a public school or to a private, denominational, or parochial school or have
such child taught by a tutor or teacher of qualifications prescribed by the Board
of Education and approved by the division superintendent or provide for home
instruction of such child as described in §22.1-254.1.
As prescribed in the regulation of the Board of Education, the requirements of
this section may also be satisfied by sending a child to an alternative program of
study or work/study offered by a public, private, denominational, or parochial
school or by a public or private degree-granting institution of higher education.
Further, in the case of any five-year-old child who is subject to the provisions of
this subsection, the requirements of this section may be alternatively satisfied by
sending the child to any public educational pre-kindergarten program, including
a Head Start Program, or in a private, denominational, or parochial school
educational pre-kindergarten program.
B. Instruction in the home of a child or children by the parent, guardian, or other
person having control or charge of such child or children shall not be classified or
defined as a private, denominational, or parochial school.
C. The requirements of this section shall not apply to any child who obtained a high
school diploma, its equivalent, or a certificate of completion, or has otherwise
complied with compulsory school attendance requirements as set forth in this
article.
D. The requirements of this section shall apply to any child in the custody of the
Department of Juvenile Justice or the Department of Corrections who has not
passed his/her eighteenth birthday, and any childwhom the division superintendent
has required to take a special program of prevention, intervention, or remediation
as provided in §22.1-253.13:1 and §22.1-254.01.
E. Within one calendar month of the opening of school, each school board shall send
to the parent/guardian of each student enrolled in the division a copy of the
compulsory school attendance law and the enforcement procedures and policies
established by the School Board. Each parent/guardian shall submit to the school
board a statement, provided with the materials, acknowledging receipt of these
materials.
F. The School Board may allow the compulsory attendance requirements to be met
pursuant to an individual student alternative education plan (ISAEP) developed
in conformity with guidelines prescribed by the Board of Education under the
following conditions: (JEG)
1. The student must be at least sixteen years of age.
2. There shall be a meeting of the student, the student’s parent(s), and the
principal or designee to develop the plan, which must include the following:
•
Career guidance counseling;
•
Mandatory enrollment and attendance in general educational develop-
ment preparatory program or other alternative education program ap-
proved by the local school board, with attendance reported to the prin-
cipal or his designee;
•
Counseling on the economic impact of failing to complete high school;
and
•
Procedures for re-enrollment.
3. A student for whom such an individual student alternative education plan