A Reference Guide of the Bakersfield City School District

Rights and ResponsibilitiesAlternative SchoolsCalifornia state law authorizes all school districts to provide for alternative schools. This law particularly authorizesinterested persons to request the governing board of the district to establish alternative school programs in the district.The administrative office of this district and the principal’s office of each school will make available copies of the lawfor the information of parents, students and teachers.Education Code 58500, 58501Parent LiabilityA parent or guardian is liable for all damages caused by the willful misconduct of his or her minor student. Theliability may result from injury or death to any student or any person employed by or performing volunteerservices for a school district, or the willfully cutting, defacing or otherwise injuring in any way the property of theschool district or any school employee. The liability of the parent or guardian shall not exceed fifteen thousand sixhundred and ninety-three dollars ($15,693). The parent or guardian of a minor shall be liable to a school district for allproperty belonging to the school district loaned to the minor and not returned upon an authorized demand of a districtemployee.Any school district whose real or personal property has been injured, or whose property is loaned to a student andwillfully not returned upon demand may, after affording the student his or her due process rights, withhold the grades,diploma and transcripts of the student responsible for the damage until the student or the student’s parent or guardianhas paid for the damages.The school district will notify the parent or guardian of the student in writing of the student’s alleged misconduct beforewithholding the student’s grades, diploma or transcripts. When the minor and parent are unable to pay for the damagesor to return the property, the school district shall provide a program of voluntary work for the minor in lieu of thepayment of monetary damages. Upon completion of the voluntary work, the grades, diploma and transcripts of thestudent shall be released.Education Code 48904, Civil Code 1714.1, Government Code 53069.5Access by Students to Internet and On-Line SitesThe Bakersfield City School District utilizes an Internet filter, which prevents both students and adults from accessinginappropriate web sites or online resources. Before using online services, the student and parent/guardian must read,agree to follow, and sign the district’s Acceptable Use Agreement describing online user rules. Students also receivetraining in obligations and responsibilities when using District equipment. Students are supervised while using onlineservices. Together, these safety precautions are designed to prohibit access to harmful matter on the internet whichmay be obscene or pornographic and to preclude other misuses of the system.No one using District online services (“user”) shall have an expectation of privacy in such use. The system shall beused only for purposes related to education. Authorized district staff may monitor or examine all system activities toensure proper use of the system.A student whose name is on an online services account is responsible for its proper use at all times. They shall use thesystem only under their own account number. Users are required to keep personal account numbers, home addresses,and telephone numbers private and to report any security problem or misuse of the network to the teacher or principal.Online Service Users shall not:1. utilize the system to encourage the use of drugs, alcohol, or tobacco;2. promote unethical practices or any activity prohibited by law or district policy;3. transmit, access, post, submit, publish, or display harmful matter or material that is threatening, obscene,disruptive or sexually explicit, or that could be construed as harassment or disparagement of others based ontheir race, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or political beliefs;30