6335: Awards for Achievement

6335: Awards for Achievement holly Tue, 07/16/2019 - 11:54

Professional staff will 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 review and approve, or reject, proposed trophies, prizes, scholarships or other awards from non-school donors. Acceptance will require affirmative answers to at least the following questions: 

  1. Can the proposed award be considered free from motives of personal or corporate gain and publicity? 
  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?
Date of Adoption
February 4, 1974
Date of Revision
August 4, 2003 (from 5126)
September 26, 2022
Reaffirmed
April 5, 2010
April 4, 2016

6335.1: Awards for Achievement

6335.1: Awards for Achievement holly Tue, 07/16/2019 - 12:02

The principal of each school shall establish standards, criteria and other needed guides for administering student awards unique to his/her school in accord with adopted board policy. A statement of such standards, criteria and administrative guides for each award or class of awards will be kept on file in the school and will be available for examination by any student, teacher or other citizen.

Date of Adoption
February 4, 1974
Date of Revision
August 4, 2003
Reaffirmed
April 5, 2010
April 4, 2016
September 26, 2022