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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

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.

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.

ANNUALNOTIFICATIONS TO STUDENT/PARENTS COMPULSORY SCHOOLATTENDANCE LAW

COLLECTION OFMONIES/FEES/EQUIPMENT

§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

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.

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.