4.23 – TOBACCO AND TOBACCO PRODUCTS 36 4.24 – DRUGS AND ALCOHOL 37 4.25 – STUDENT DRESS AND GROOMING 38 4.26 – GANGS AND GANG ACTIVITY 39 4.27 – STUDENT SEXUAL HARASSMENT 40 4.28 – LASER POINTERS 42 4.29 – COMPUTER USE POLICY 43 4.29F – STUDENT INTERNET USE AGREEMENTS 44 4.30 – SUSPENSION FROM SCHOOL 46 4.31 – EXPULSION 48 4.32 – SEARCH, SEIZURE, AND INTERROGATIONS 50 4.33 – STUDENTS’ VEHICLES 52 4.34 – COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND PARASITES 53 4.35 – STUDENT MEDICATIONS 54 4.35F – MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION CONSENT FORM 55 4.35F2 – MEDICATION SELF-ADMINISTRATION CONSENT FORM 56 4.36 – STUDENT ILLNESS/ACCIDENT 57 4.37 – EMERGENCY DRILLS 58 4.38 – PERMANENT RECORDS 59 4.39 – CORPORAL PUNISHMENT 73 4.40 – HOMELESS STUDENTS 74 4.41 – PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS OR SCREENINGS 76 4.41F – OBJECTION TO PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS OR SCREENINGS 77 4.42 – STUDENT HANDBOOK 78 4.43 – BULLYING 79 4.44 – ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES 9-12 82 ________________ _____________ ____________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________
4.2—ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS To enroll in a school in the District, the child must be a resident of the District as defined in District policy (4.1—RESIDENCE REQUIREMENTS), meet the criteria outlined in policy 4.40—HOMELESS STUDENTS or in policy 4.52—STUDENTS WHO ARE FOSTER CHILDREN, be accepted as a transfer student under the provisions of policy 4.4, or participate under a school choice option and submit the required paperwork as required by the choice option. Students may enter kindergarten if they will attain the age of five (5) on or before August 1 of the year in which they are seeking initial enrollment. Any student who has been enrolled in a or state-approved kindergarten program in another state for at least sixty (60) days, who will become five (5) years old during the year in which he/she is enrolled in kindergarten, and who meets the basic residency requirement for school attendance may be enrolled in kindergarten upon written request to the District. Any child who will be six (6) years of age on or before October 1 of the school year of enrollment and who has not completed a state-accredited kindergarten program shall be evaluated by the district and may be placed in the first grade if the results of the evaluation justify placement in the first grade and the child’s parent or legal guardian agrees with placement in the first grade; otherwise the child shall be placed in kindergarten. Any child may enter first grade in a District school if the child will attain the age of six (6) years during the school year in which the child is seeking enrollment and the child has successfully completed a kindergarten program in a public school in . Any child who has been enrolled in the first grade in a state-accredited or state-approved elementary school in another state for a period of at least sixty (60) days, who will become age six (6) years during the school year in which he/she is enrolled in grade one (1), and who meets the basic residency requirements for school attendance may be enrolled in the first grade. Students who move into the District from an accredited school shall be assigned to the same grade as they were attending in their previous school (mid-year transfers) or as they would have been assigned in their previous school. Home-schooled and private school students shall be evaluated by the District to determine their appropriate grade placement.