Parent & Family Resources
Parents and guardians rights are supported by both state Education Code and District policies. Capistrano Unified policies, along with California Education Code provide opportunties for collaboration and partnership in public education.
Parents and guardians can:
- Participate in school activities
- Visit their child's classroom to observe instruction
- Participate in school-sponsored activities
- Be informed of their child's academic progress and school performance
- Access and review educational materials
- Examine the curriculum materials and instructional content used in their child's classes
- Inspect and review their child's academic records
- Receive information on academic standards, assessments and student achievement
- Receive notification and be informed
- Their child's academic progress and performance
- School rules and attendance policies
- Any significant issues affecting their child's academic or behavioral status
- Their rights and responsibilities under the law
- Support learning at home
- Receive guidance on how to assist their child at home in academic improvement
- Be provided resources to help support learning and behavioral expectations
- Participate in educational decision-making
- Participate in advisory councils (School Site Council, English Learner Advisory Committee, Community Action Council, etc.)
- Be involved in decisions about educational programs and services, especially those funded through the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP)
- Be consulted in the development of the school's educational goals
- Choose to opt-Out and Consent
- Opt out of certain instructional content, including comprehensive sexual health education
- Withhold consent for participation in surveys, assessments or data collection not required by law
- Decline participation in certain psychological examinations of their child
- Expect a safe and supportive environment
- Expect that their child learns in a safe, secure and respectful setting
- Receive updates on bullying prevention and discipline policies
- Request independent study to make up for absensces
- Challenge instructional topics and practices
- Present objections of complaints regarding thehandling of issues in the classroom.
- Process outlined in BP 6136
