Textbooks: Distribution and Care

The Oologah-Talala Board of Education believes that all employees and students are responsible for the proper care of school facilities, equipment, and property in their use or under their control.

Cooperation is expected from the professional staff regarding the care and distribution of school-owned textbooks. The superintendent may delegate authority to building principals for the care, custody, and distribution of textbooks, as well as other instructional material and equipment.

Students using school-owned textbooks or library books are responsible for them and shall reimburse the school for any lost or damaged books. If a misplaced book is returned, the student may be refunded any charges previously paid to the school for the book.

The school district may withhold from a third party transcripts or other school records relating to a student if the student fails to return a textbook or fails to make payment for the textbook if not returned. The superintendent is authorized to apply this provision on a case-by-case basis taking into consideration the student's (or parent's) ability to pay for lost textbooks and reasons for the nonreturn of such textbooks. For the purpose of this policy, transcript means any record of a grade or grades given to a student by a teacher.

The school district will not - and the superintendent is not authorized to - prevent a student from receiving a grade to which the student is entitled, from graduating upon completion of graduation requirements, or from obtaining any records or information supplied to the school or otherwise owned by the student.

The school district will forward all educational records of a student to another school district in which the child is enrolling within three (3) business days of the request as per 70 O.S. § 24-101.4 regardless of whether all fines and fees have been paid by the former student.

Legal Citations

The qualifications and procedures outlined in this policy are based upon the following Oklahoma Statutes (O.S.):

• 70 O.S. §16-121