Parent Confirmation of Responsibilities

Each parent of a student shall sign and return to the school in which the student is enrolled a statement acknowledging the receipt of the school board’s standards of student conduct and the notice of the requirements of this section. 

All parents are expected to assume responsibility for the students' behavior and assist the school in supporting classroom and school norms and rules. Parents are also expected to maintain regular communication with school authorities, monitor and require daily attendance, and bring to the attention of the school authorities any problem that affects their child or other children in the school.  It is the parents' responsibility to notify the school of any unusual behavior pattern or medical problem that might lead to serious educational difficulties.

The school principal may request the student's parent or parents, if both parents have legal and physical custody of such student, to meet with the principal or his designee to review the school board's standards of student conduct and the parent's or parents' responsibility to participate with the school in disciplining the student and maintaining order, to ensure the student's compliance with compulsory school attendance law, and to discuss improvement of the child's behavior, school attendance, and educational progress.

Upon the failure of a parent to comply with the provisions of this section, the school board may, by petition to the juvenile and domestic relations court, proceed against such parent for willful and unreasonable refusal to participate in efforts to improve the student’s behavior (Code of Virginia, Section 22.1-279.3).

Additional Resources

• Albemarle County School Board Policy JFC (Student Conduct)