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P5138
ST. LOUIS BOARD OF EDUCATION POLICY Married students shall have the same educational opportunities in this school system as unmarried students. Further, the board's responsibility for the education of all school age children includes the pregnant teenager, married or unmarried. These students will be allowed to remain in school, and services for them will be made a part of the regular school system. Any variation from their continuing in regular school classes will be based upon their assessed needs. References Legal: 34 C.F.R. Part 106.40 et. seq.
Revised: May 11, 1993 Revised: December 07, 1999 R5138 ST. LOUIS BOARD OF EDUCATION POLICY I. Marital or Parental Status A. Status generally. No student shall be treated differently on the basis of sex with respect to the student's actual or potential parental, family, or marital status. B. Pregnancy and related conditions. 1. A school shall not discriminate against any student, or exclude any student from its education program or activity, including any class or extracurricular activity, on the basis of such student's pregnancy, childbirth, false pregnancy, termination of pregnancy or recovery therefrom, unless the student requests voluntarily to participate in a separate portion of the program or activity of the school. 2. Except as otherwise provided in this regulation, pregnancy, childbirth, false pregnancy, termination of pregnancy, and recovery therefrom shall be treated in the same manner and under the same policies as any other temporary disability. 3. Students may be required to present the certification of a physician that the student, due to pregnancy, childbirth, false pregnancy, termination of pregnancy or recovery therefrom, is physically and emotionally able to continue to participate in the normal education or activity so long as such a certification is required of all students for other physical or emotional conditions requiring the attention of a physician. 4. The instruction program offered through the Continued Education School shall be comparable to that offered to non-pregnant students. 5. Pregnancy, childbirth, false pregnancy, termination of pregnancy, and recovery therefrom are justifications for a leave of absence from school for as long a period of time as is deemed medically necessary by the student's physician, at the conclusion of which the student shall be reinstated to the status which she held when the leave began. II. Referral Procedures. A student who becomes pregnant may elect to: 1. Transfer to the Continued Education School; 2. Transfer to an alternative program; or 3. Continue in the school of current assignment. Any student over sixteen (16) years of age may elect to remain out of school. Any pregnant student too ill to attend any school program is eligible to receive home instruction. Requests for home teaching may be made by a building administrator, physician, or parent to the office of special education. III. Assignment Procedures. Assignment of students to the Continued Education School shall be handled as routine transfers between schools. Upon request from the Continued Education School, the sending school principal will forward appropriate records. IV. Discharge of Students. Normally, students in attendance at the Continued Education School are returned to the school of previous assignment at the end of each semester. The administrator at the Continued Education School will send the names of students eligible to return to the principals of their respective schools. The returning students are to be handled as routine transfers and no special permits are required. Students will be returned to the home school on the basis of residence or previous school attended.
Legal: 34 C.F.R. Part 106.40 et. seq.
Revised: May 25, 1993 Revised: December 07, 1999
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