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COMMUNITY/BOARD OPERATIONS
VISITORS AND OBSERVATIONS IN SCHOOLS
The Colchester Board of Education (the “Board”) encourages visits by citizens, taxpayers, and
parents to all school buildings. In order to promote a safe and productive educational
environment for all students and staff, the Board requires all visitors to receive prior approval
from the school Principal or his/her designee before being permitted to visit any school
building. The Board, through the administration, reserves the right to limit visits in accordance
with administrative regulations.
The Board further desires to work collaboratively with parents with an educational nexus with
the district, its educational programs or the student being observed, to observe their students
in their current classrooms or observe proposed educational placements in the Board’s schools.
The Board, through the administration, reserves the right to limit observations of current and
proposed educational placements in accordance with administrative regulations and the Board’s
Guidelines for Independent Educational Evaluations.
Upon arrival, all visitors and observers must comply with any and all applicable building security
procedures, including but not limited to utilizing security buzzers for access, complying with
requests for photo identification, reporting directly to and signing in and out at the visitors’
reception area of the school office, prominently displaying visitors’ badges or other
identification required for visitors to the school buildings, limiting access to those areas of the
buildings and grounds for which the visitors/observers have authorized access, and complying
with directives of school officials at all times. All visitors and observers permitted into school
buildings or on school grounds must comply with all school health and safety protocols in
place at the time, including but not limited to any health screening protocols.
Legal References:
“Guidelines Regarding Independent Educational Evaluations at Public Expense and In-
School Observations,” Connecticut State Department of Education (Mar. 28, 2018).
ADOPTED: January 11, 2000
REVISION: December 13, 2016 (Replaces Policy 1250)
REVISION: December 11, 2018
REVISION: November 9, 2021
COLCHESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Colchester, Connecticut
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