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Students temporarily disabled by accident or by physical, mental or emotional illness may receive individual instruction at home or in a hospital or residential health facility within the district. Such instruction may be given from one to five hours a week.

Home or hospital instruction shall be provided only when a student is expected to be out of school for two weeks or longer.

Home or hospital instruction shall be provided only by teachers with valid California teaching credentials.

Insofar as possible, the home teacher shall consult with the student's current classroom teacher or teachers so as to provide a continuity of instruction that enables the student to keep up with the regular school program.

When seeking instruction for a student at home or in a hospital located within the district, the parent/guardian shall present this request at the home school, together with a physician's written description of the disabling condition. The physician shall have determined that the student is unable to attend school and will not expose the home teacher to any contagious disease that can be transmitted by casual contact.

(cf. 5112.2 - Exclusions from Attendance)

(cf. 5141.22 - Infectious Diseases)

The district shall notify parents/guardians annually that (1) individual instruction is available for temporarily disabled students and (2) when a student becomes temporarily disabled, it is the parent/guardian's responsibility to notify the district in which the student is receiving care. (Education Code 48208)

Legal Reference:

EDUCATION CODE

44865 Qualifications for home teachers

45031 Home teachers

48206.3 ¬?Pupils with temporary disabilities; individual instruction; definitions; computing average daily attendance

48206.5 Continuation of individual instruction programs for students with temporary disabilities

48207 ¬?Pupils with temporary disabilities in hospitals outside of school district; compliance with residency requirements

48208 Presence of pupils with temporary disabilities in qualifying hospitals; notice by parents or guardians; commencement of individualized instruction

48980 Required notification of rights and availability of nutrition and individualized instruction programs

51800 Employment of home teachers

51801 Home teacher's duties

51802 Home teaching or instruction

CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 5

423 Prolonged illness

Policy ALHAMBRA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

adopted: September 9, 1997 Alhambra, California