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health department or physician. The principal, school nurse or designee will inspect thestudent’s head for presence of active lice. The child WILL NOT be readmitted if lice arepresent.Guidance and Counseling ProgramThe Harrisonburg School Board will provide a K-12 guidance and counseling program designed to assiststudents in their educational, social, and career development. No student will be required to participatein any counseling program to which the student's parents object.For the purposes of this policy, the following definitions apply:Academic Guidance (Academic Advising) - Guidance which assists students and their parents to acquireknowledge of the curricula choices available to students, to plan a program of studies, to arrange andinterpret academic testing, and to seek post-secondary academic opportunities;Career Guidance (Career Advising) - Advice which helps students to acquire information and plan actionabout work, jobs, apprenticeships, and post-secondary educational and career opportunities;Personal/Social Counseling - Counseling which assists students to develop an understanding ofthemselves, the rights and needs of others, how to resolve conflict and to define individual goals,reflecting their interests, abilities, and aptitudes. Such counseling may be provided either (i) in groups inwhich generic issues of social development are addressed or (ii) through structured individual or smallgroup multi-session counseling which focuses on the specific concerns of the participant(s).Information and records of personal/social counseling shall be kept confidential and separate and notdisclosed to third parties without prior parental consent or as otherwise provided by law.It shall be the policy of the Harrisonburg School Board with respect to personal/social counseling thatparents will notify the school division in writing if a student is not to participate in thepersonal/social counseling program (opt-out) provided through group, individual, small groupcounseling, and/or classroom guidance (School Board Policy 443).Student Records (School Board Policy 434)The Harrisonburg City School Board shall maintain accurate and complete individual, permanent andcumulative records for every student enrolled in the public schools. These records shall includecumulative and confidential information and shall be the student's official school record. Such records,identified as education records in Title 20, Section 1232(g) of the United States Code and in Chapter 14of Title 22.1 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, shall be maintained in compliance with allfederal and state laws.The superintendent or his/her designee(s) shall be responsible for the collection of data, recordmaintenance and security, access to, and use of records, confidentiality of personally identifiableinformation, dissemination of information from records, and destruction of records, including thedestruction of personally identifiable information regarding a student with a disability at the request of theparent. The superintendent shall also provide for notification of all school division personnel of policyand procedures for management of education records and notification of parents and students of theirrights regarding student records, including the right to obtain, upon request, a copy of the HarrisonburgCity Public Schools written policy and procedure on the management of the education records and theirlocation.28