Visitor and Volunteer Policy

LTS encourages parents and family members to regularly visit the school and become involved in student activities. The impact that positive parental involvement has on the learning and development of students is immeasurable.

With that in mind, the following policies must be adhered to so that a safe, secure, and productive learning environment can be ensured for all.

• Visitors MUST sign in at the main office whenever they are on campus. They will be provided with a visitor ID that must be worn while on campus. Visitors are not permitted to make unscheduled or drop-in visits to classrooms.
• When visiting campus to meet with teaching staff, visitors must have a prearranged time set up with the teacher(s) in question, except for urgent matters. Times are best arranged via email. With few exceptions, conferences are scheduled during teacher/team planning time, and/or immediately before or after school. Under no circumstances can a teacher be interrupted while providing instruction before, during, or after the school day to meet with a parent.
• Visitors to campus must be the parent or other adult family members with permission of the parent. Students’ friends, younger siblings, and other unrelated individuals cannot visit the campus during school hours.
• Volunteers MUST go through a background check conducted by our district office. Once the check is cleared, volunteers are notified and may begin helping on campus. Until this clearance is obtained, they are not to be involved in any educational or extracurricular activities. Please read this document for further information: Volunteer Procedures.

Please note that we request parents and other visitors to a classroom, both virtual and in person, to only record video or audio, or take photographs of classroom activities, after receiving permission from the teacher or a campus administrator.

Additionally, the principal or designee may take the following actions whenever there is a school visitor:

• Establish an electronic database for storing information concerning visitors (information stored in the electronic database may be used only for school security and may not be sold or otherwise disseminated to a third party for any purpose)
• Verify whether the visitor is a sex offender registered with the computerized central database maintained by the DPS or any other database accessible by LTS

Any visitor identified as a sex offender shall be escorted by school personnel at all times during a school visit and shall have access only to common areas of the campus.