POLICY: Volunteers and Work Study Students

Personnel 4204
Volunteer Enrollment Procedures
Volunteer Form

The school district recognizes the valuable contributions made to the schools by volunteers and work study student. It further recognizes that appropriate supervision of volunteers and work study students will enhance their contributions as well as fulfill the responsibility that the school district has for the education and safety of its students.

Definitions:

For the purposes of this policy and administrative rules and procedures developed pursuant to this policy:

  1. Volunteer means an individual not employed by the school district who works on occasional or regular basis in the school setting to assist the staff. A volunteer works without compensation or economic benefits.
  2. Work Study Student means a post secondary student who receives compensation for work performed at a school operated by the district as part of a work experience program sponsored or provided by the college or university at which he or she is enrolled. A student working toward a teaching credential who is placed as a teacher-intern at a school district is not a work study student.

Policy:

The Superintendent shall develop administrative rules and procedures to ensure that volunteers and work study students are appropriately screened prior to entering into service in the school district, and that only volunteer and work study students who have been screened and approved by the Superintendent (or designee) have extended unsupervised contact with students. The screening process utilized by the school district shall minimally include a name and birthday check with the Vermont Internet Sex Abuse Registry for any person being considered for service as a work study student. A person who is on the Vermont Internet Sex Abuse Registry shall not be eligible to be a work study student.

Warned (8/25/03, 11/10/03)
Orange Southwest Supervisory Union Adopted (1/26/04) Revised (8/10/09)
Braintree Elementary School Warned (12/17/03) Adopted (2/11/04) Revised (8/19/09)
Brookfield Elementary School Warned (12/9/03) Adopted (2/10/04) Revised (8/18/09)
Randolph Elementary School Warned (12/18/03) Adopted (2/5/04) Revised (8/10/09)
Randolph Union High School Warned (12/10/03) Adopted (2/11/04) Revised (8/10/09)
Randolph Technical Career Center Warned (12/18/03) Reviewed (2/26/04)  

 

Legal Reference(s):
16 V.S.A.§ 260 (Supervision policy requirement)
   
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