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  • 04-08-2017, 01:11 PM
    cbg
    Re: Is it Illegal for a School to Ban a Parent from Coming Inside
    That may be the case where you are. It is damned sure not the case where I live.
  • 04-08-2017, 01:23 PM
    eerelations
    Re: Is it Illegal for a School to Ban a Parent from Coming Inside
    Again OP are you really sure it was this HR Manager/Director who called you? Because making a call like this is way way WAY beyond the scope of an HR person{s job. If this had happened to me, I would have called this HR Manager/Director person on the line listed in the directory to find out if it was really him who called me, or some unknown person.
  • 04-08-2017, 01:55 PM
    budwad
    Re: Is it Illegal for a School to Ban a Parent from Coming Inside
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    That may be the case where you are. It is damned sure not the case where I live.

    It is the case in NJ that unless you are a city you have one district with one BOE that controls the schools with budget, personal, hiring and firing. There is no difference between district and school board. It is a matter of semantics. The school board of education first answers to the municipal council then to the state department of education.

    Don't be so sure. I looked at Massachusetts municipal law and it is not that much different than NJ about school boards and their powers.
  • 04-08-2017, 02:24 PM
    Taxing Matters
    Re: Is it Illegal for a School to Ban a Parent from Coming Inside
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    I do not disagree with any of that. To a certain degree, that is exactly my point.

    The School Board is an elected group of representatives of the community. They take care of the budget; they set policy; they appoint the superintendent. A school district is, collectively, a group of schools and their employees, representing a city, town, village or other geographic region. The school board oversees the school district, but they are two distinct bodies.

    I rather think they are not separate bodies. I think a good analogy here is to the way a corporation functions. A corporation has a board of directors that are elected by the shareholders. The board meets periodically to set certain policies for the corporation, hires the company president/CEO (and perhaps other officers of the company), hires the outside accounting firm that reviews the books and records of the company, etc. The board does not run the corporation on a day-to-basis; instead that is the job of the president/CEO and other officers of the company. The board is an integral part of the company and is the body ultimately responsible for running it.

    The school board is basically the board of directors for the school district. It is part of the district that it runs and has the ultimate responsibility for how the district functions. Perhaps where you are it is different, but if it is then it is unusual.

    Part of the problem here may be simply the use of terms. For example, Massachussetts uses different terms for things than does most other states. In Massachussets there is a “regional district planning board” (Board) which is organized by one or more towns which is charged with determining the feasibility of establishing a “regional school district” (District) and for setting up the initial organization of said District and some other functions related to that. M.G.L. Chap. 71 § 14A. While the Board organizes the District, it does not run the district. Rather, that is the job of the “regional district school committee” (Committee). “The powers, duties and liabilities of a regional school district shall be vested in and exercised by a regional district school committee organized in accordance with the agreement.” M.G.L. Chap 71 § 16A. It is this committee that thus exercises the powers given the District in M.G.L. Chap 71 § 16, including the powers to sue and be sued, to hire the superintendent, buy land, incur debt, receive and disburse funds, issue bonds, etc. So in Massachussets the Board is separate from the District but the Committee is not. The Committee is part of the District and is the body that heads up the District. It is the Committee that therefore acts like the board of directors in my example. In the states I'm familiar with, however, the functions of the Committee are vested in what is called a school board and those states do not use an intermediate body like the Board used in Massachusetts. So when the term school board was used in this thread, if you had in mind something like the Massachussets regional district planning board then I can see where confusion might arise. That’s not the kind of body being referred to here. Rather, it is a body much like the regional district school committee that I, and think Budwad, have been referring to when using the term school board.
  • 04-08-2017, 02:24 PM
    Mamabear19
    Re: Is it Illegal for a School to Ban a Parent from Coming Inside
    Yes. His number is listed in the school directory site and that was the number I called back. I had also met with him earlier in the year and he has a distinct voice, it was definitely the same person.
  • 04-08-2017, 03:39 PM
    cbg
    Re: Is it Illegal for a School to Ban a Parent from Coming Inside
    Thank you for the clarification on the difference in terms used regionally, Tax.
  • 04-09-2017, 03:13 PM
    Mark47n
    Re: Is it Illegal for a School to Ban a Parent from Coming Inside
    All of that said, it would be strange for the board to involve itself in an issue such as this. This would typically fall to the principal, initially, in the board. HR would not be involved in dealing with outside entities.
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