DBS CODE:  5126

STUDENTS:

Awards for Achievement:

The Board of Education encourages the professional staff to maintain a set of criteria and procedures for presenting letters or other suitable awards to students for scholarship and distinguished service in any school activity.  In all cases, the relationship between the award and the relevant goal or goals of the schools should be pointed out.

The professional staff is authorized to recommend proposals for proposed trophies, prizes, scholarships or other awards from non-school donors.  The final approval rests with the Superintendent of Schools.  Acceptance will require affirmative answers to at least the following questions:

1.  Is the primary purpose of the award in the best interest of the student rather than personal or corporate gain and publicity for the donor?

2.  Are the criteria for making the award under the control of the professional staff, or acceptable to the staff?

3.  Are the purposes, either implied or explicit, of the proposed award  consistent with our schools’ goals?

Adopted:  December 27, 1979

Revised:  June 8, 1998