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Community Relations

Public Performances by Students

The Board of Education recognizes that worthy and appropriate educational values accrue from student participation in civic and community affairs. Instructors shall be encouraged to provide students for public performances when such performances contribute to the educational process and objectives of that particular class and when it does not interfere unduly with other scheduled classes or activities within the school.

School groups may, with the permission of the Principal, participate in local public events which fall into the following classifications:

1. Events sponsored by the schools. Educational events in which the schools serve as hosts shall have priority in scheduling appearances.

2. Community functions organized in the interests of the school such as those that might be originated by the parent‑teacher groups or parent councils.

3. Non‑commercial civic occasions of community, county, state, or national interest of sufficient breadth to enlist general sympathy and cooperation.

School groups may not participate in events that fall into any of the following classifications:

1. Events that are for the purpose of private gain or for the advertising of any commercial project or product. A school name, the names of school‑sponsored groups or school equipment shall not be exploited in events of a commercial nature.

2. Events that are for the furtherance of any politically partisan interest. In questionable cases, the matter shall be referred by the Board.

3. Events that are primarily for the furtherance of any sectarian concern.

4. Events that cause an undue amount of interference with the regular school program or that cause an excessive amount of absence due to rehearsal or preparation.

Policy adopted: August 13, 2002 EAST HADDAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Moodus, Connecticut