HEALTH SERVICES

HEALTH SERVICES

po2413Adopted February 1, 2002

2413 - HEALTH SERVICES

In compliance with law, the School Board may require students to submit to periodic health examinations to:

  1. protect the school community from the spread of communicable disease;

  2. determine that each student's participation in health, safety, and physical education courses meets his/her individual needs;

  3. determine that the learning potential of each child is not lessened by a remediable physical disability;

  4. determine if participation in physical education classes would be harmful to the individual.

The Corporation shall specify the need for services which may include, but not be limited to:

  1. student physical examinations;

  2. athlete physical examinations;

  3. vision screening;

  4. audiometric screening;

  5. scoliosis screening.

Any health services program should also include instruction to staff members on the observance of students for conditions that indicate physical defect or disability.