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FERPA Disclosure

Policy 1203 1203.1: Notice to Students Regarding FERPA JRTI adult students all benefit from the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, was designed to protect the privacy of education records, to establish the right of students to inspect and review their education records, and to provide guidelines for the correction of inaccurate or […]

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Vision Statement

Policy 1202 The James Rumsey Technical Institute is dedicated to the belief that each individual should be given a continual opportunity for the development and extension of his/her skill and knowledge to increase awareness of his/her role and responsibility in society. The James Rumsey Technical Institute is devoted to serving the educational needs of its community and […]

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Dress Code

Policy 1201 James Rumsey Technical Institute recognizes that certain clothing and footwear worn by students in public schools can often preoccupy and distract students from their major purpose for being in school: obtaining an education. The dress code procedure shall apply to all school activities during the school day as well as all school sponsored […]

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Attendance: Tardies and Signing In/Out

Policy 1104 Tardies/Early Sign-Outs Tardiness will be documented. In high school and postsecondary technical classes, a student will be marked tardy for any part of an hour in which he/she arrives more than five (5) minutes late for that class. A tardy is equivalent to 45 minutes of “contact time”. Three (3) tardies for students […]

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School Attendance as a Condition of Motor Vehicle Licensing Privilege

Policy 1103 §126-81-7. The West Virginia Board of Education recognizes that driving a vehicle is a privilege and that West Virginia Code requires young people at least fifteen but less than eighteen years of age to maintain specified driver eligibility requirements related to school attendance, personal behavior and academic progress in order to obtain and […]

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Attendance: High School Students

Policy 1102 James Rumsey Technical Institute’s attendance policy follows the West Virginia State and Berkeley County Schools’ attendance policies and procedures. A copy of these policies is available upon request. Students who are absent need to provide an absence excuse to their James Rumsey Technical Institute instructor for admission into class. Student absences are reported […]

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Attendance: Adult Students

Policy: 1101 All postsecondary students exceeding the maximum number of allowable absences will be dismissed from their respective programs. For programs in which the maximum allowable days (hours) absent are fifteen (15), students will receive a warning letter upon the accumulation of five (5) absences and again at ten (10) days absent. These letters will […]

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