Academic School Year 2008 - 2009
Message to Parents Message to Students Telephone
Student Records Parent-Teacher Conferences Concerns or Grievances
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You know that you are not able to prepare your children for the future without the help of the schools. Students must be of strong character and well educated in the use of communication skills, science, and mathematics in order to be a positive force in the future of our world. They must possess a deep respect for intelligence, achievement, and learning, and the skills needed to use them for setting goals and for disciplined work. As parents, you must not accept poor and second-rate performance as good enough from your student. You have the right to demand for your children the best our school can provide. You must not be satisfied with less than the best your school has to offer. But your right to a proper education for your children carries a double responsibility. As surely as you are your child’s first and most influential teacher, your child’s ideas about education and its importance begin with you. You must be a living example of what you expect your children to honor and to emulate. You bear a responsibility to participate actively in your child’s education. You should:
Children look to you, their parents, as models of such virtues. |
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You forfeit your chance for life at its fullest when you withhold your best learning. When you give only minimum to learning, you receive only the minimum in return. Even with your parents’ best efforts, in the end it is your work that determines how much and how well you learn. When you work to your full capacity, you can hope to attain the knowledge and skills that will enable you to create your future and control your destiny. As students you must take responsibility for your own learning. These responsibilities include:
Take hold of your life, apply your gifts and talents, work with dedication and self-discipline. Have high expectations for yourself and convert every challenge into an opportunity. |
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When calling the school during school hours for a student, please use 564-8518. Please call for students during their lunch time or leave a message to have students return calls during their lunch time or after school. Students will not be called from a class or from a study hall for a phone call unless it is an emergency. Students having cell phones will not be allowed to have their phones turned on during class time. |
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The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (2000) ensures that parents and students have access to and an opportunity to challenge the content of a student’s record, and that schools will not release contents of that record to a third party without consent. However, certain information has been deemed “directly information.” This information may be released for purposes such as sporting events, honor roll, etc. Also the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 created new mandates for schools receiving federal funds. The act requires that schools make student names, addresses, and telephone numbers available to military recruiters and institutes of higher education. However, students and parents may opt out so that information is not released without prior consent. Opt out forms will be mailed to each student at the beginning of the school year or upon enrollment in the school during the year. Directory information shall include name, address, telephone number, date of birth, participation in officially recognized activities and sports, weight and height of members of athletic teams, date of attendance, and degrees and awards received. |
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One parent-teacher conference will be scheduled in the fall of the school year and parents are expected to attend. Students are encouraged to attend with their parents. Parents are also encouraged to contact teachers whenever they wish to discuss their child’s progress. |
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Lakeview wishes to ensure fair and equitable treatment in resolving at the lowest possible level any misunderstanding arising from an alleged violation of policies, rules, regulations, procedures, negotiated agreements, or individual rights. A grievance shall mean a claim by one or more persons of such a violation. If a person feels that a grievance is present, the matter should be discussed informally and within 30 days of the occurrence with the person who allegedly was responsible for the violation. The alleged violator must give an answer orally within five (5) days of such meeting. If the grievant is not satisfied with the disposition of the problem through this informal procedure, a formal grievance may be submitted in writing, to the supervisor of the alleged violator. Copies of the procedures for filing a grievance, are available in the school office. |
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The Lakeview Community Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, marital status, disability, or age in admission or access to, or treatment of employment, in its programs and activities. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding complaints, grievance procedures, or the application of these policies of nondiscrimination. Superintendent, Paul Calvert Lakeview Community Schools 3744 83rd St. Columbus, NE 68601 If parents, employees or students do not feel that their complaints regarding Title IX, Title VI, Section 504 have met with resolution at the local level, they can appeal their grievance to the regional Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights. This would be their final opportunity for resolution. This address is: Office for Civil Rights 8930 Ward Parkway, Suite 2037 Kansas City, MO 64114 816-268-0550 FAX: 816-823-1404 |
