SCHOOL-AGE PARENTS AND MARRIED STATUS OF STUDENTS | Policy Manual

5751 - SCHOOL-AGE PARENTS AND MARRIED STATUS OF STUDENTS

A student's marital status shall not be a basis for discrimination or other restriction in that student's educational programming. Likewise, the Board of Education supports the provision of modifications and other services to enable resident school-age parents to continue their education.

School-age parents include any person under the age of twenty-one (21) who is not a high school graduate and is a parent, expectant parent, or a person who has been pregnant within the immediately preceding 120 days.

The school may request medical verification of a pregnant student's ability to continue in all classes in her program. A school-age parent, however, may not be compelled to withdraw from his/her regular education program.