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Columbus Enrichment Program (Pre-K-12th Grade)

Bartholomew Consolidated Schools K-1 Grade Early Enrollment

Bartholomew Consolidated Elementary Schools have made enrollment available online for students K through 12. If you would like to find out more about BCSC Pre-K, please follow this link. Please click on one of the links below to start the registration process. You will be asked to create an account with a valid email address. Your child’s enrollment will not be complete once this form is submitted. Please see guidelines below and arrange to take the documents listed to the school your child will attend to complete the enrollment process.

Please note the following guidelines:

Early Entrance to Kindergarten Application: Any student who will turn 5 years old between Aug. 2 and Sept. 30, 2024, may apply to enter Kindergarten for the 2024-25 school year. Please download the appropriate application and follow the instructions.

Early Entrance to Kindergarten (English)

Early Entrance to Kindergarten (Spanish)

Early Entrance to Grade 1: Any student who will turn 6 years of age between Aug. 2- Sept. 30, 2024, may apply for early enrollment to grade 1 for the 2024-25 school year. Please download the appropriate application and follow the instructions.

Early Entrance to Grade 1 (English)

Early Entrance to Grade 1 (Spanish)

Technology Resources

System Status Page

PowerSchool Sign In

Extenuating Circ*mstances or Non-School Sponsored Competition Absence Form - Spanish

Consent Form

All volunteers at BCSC must obtain a criminal history check. This includes volunteers in the classroom and for field trip chaperones. Forms are available in the office at no cost to the volunteer as well as on the website .

If you think you may want to accompany your child’s class on a field trip or volunteer on a regular basis please fill out a form and return it to your facilitator or the main office.

They will be good for the entire school year and must be renewed yearly.

Criminal History Form

The parent-teacher conference can play a significant role in the education of our students in three (3) important ways:

Physical Education Waiver

This program is available to only those students who are attending high school.

Please contact your high school PE/Health Department if you need further assistance or if you need additional information.

East High School PE/Health Department

gaddisb@bcsc.k12.in.us

North High School PE/Health Department

hesterje@bcsc.k12.in.us

CSA New Tech PE/Health Department

morrillj@bcsc.k12.in.us

Please read through
"To the Parents of Prospective PE Waiver Students"first.

Part 1:

To Parents of Perspective PE Waiver Students(High School Only)

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Part 4:

The Twenty-first Century Scholars Program offers low-income students in the 6^th, 7^th, and 8^thgrades full-ride collegiate scholarships. The application to the program is online only. To apply, please access the link below.

For more information click link below.

i-Grad is a unique program embedded in Bartholomew County schools with the bold goal of achieving a high school graduation rate of 100%. iGrad serves all students with academic barriers in grades 8 through 12 to utilize a unique team approach to assisting our students.

Link to iGrad

Student Registration Process For The Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation

I.All students enrolling in the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation must initially enroll at the neighborhood school that is determined by proof of residency of their parent or legal guardian.

A. Call the Transportation Office (376-4246) with your address to find your neighborhood school and its location. You may also use the SCHOOL BUS iconon the BCSC website to find your neighborhood school and bus stop location.

II.Parent or legal guardian and student must go to their neighborhood school and take the following:

A. The name and address of the school the student last attended, if any. Official school records must be requested by BCSC. ­­___

B. Student’s birth certificate. ____

C. A Proof of residency. _____

(name and address of parent or legal guardian on a rental, lease, or mortgage document, a utility bill etc.)

D. Court papers proving custody if student is livingwith only one parent or legal guardian .____

E. Student’s immunizations (shot records) if available(or previous school must forward). ____

III.Parent or legal guardians who have no proof of residency must:

A. Call the Information Services Center, 2650 Home Avenue, TJ Skinner, 376-4280.

B. Make an appointment to see TJ Skinner, 8:00 to 4:00 p.m. Monday – Friday.

C. Bring identification and give address, phone number, and name of person, if anyone, you are living with.

D. Parent or legal guardian must sign an Affidavit of Residency. Signatures will be witnessed and notarized.

IV.A non-custodial parent enrolling a student along with the custodial parent must:

A. Call the Information Services Center, 2650 Home Avenue and make an appointment with TJ Skinner, 376-4280 8:00-4:00 Monday - Friday.

B. Fill out Form I Divorced/Separated Parents Custodial Statement.

C. Custodial and non-custodial parent must sign the agreement. Signatures will be witnessed and notarized. (special circ*mstances considered)

V.Non-parents with no court papers proving guardianship must:

A. Call the Information Services Center, 2650 Home Avenue and make an appointment to see TJ Skinner, 376-4280 8:00 to 4:00 p.m. Monday – Friday.

B. Fill out a Form II Third Party Custodial Statement and Agreement. (special circ*mstances considered)

VI.If your legal residency is not within the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation boundaries, but you desire to enroll a student in the corporation you must:

A. Call the School Administration Building, 1200 Central Avenue, for Elementary 812-376-4392, Secondary 812-375-1762.

B. A Parent or legal guardian must fill out a transfer request for student enrollment. This form will be forwarded to the school you wish to enroll for the Principal and Superintendent’s approval. Upon approval or non-approval you will be notified by mail.

VII.Foster Student Enrollment

A. Foster parent needs paperwork from the Department of Family & Children stating the student was placed in their home.

B. Complete foster student formOnlyif student’s legal settlement (parent/or guardian’s address) is outside BCSC’s attendance area. Send completed from toSueWilleyat the Administration Building. (376-4301)

BCSC Student Transfer (within BCSC)

BCSC Student Transfer Form (outside of BCSC)

Out of District Student Transfer Information and FormA legal transfer must be completed if a child is enrolled in a BCSC school by a placing agency or the courts and child’s parent/legal guardian resides outside of the district.

A parent/legal guardian whose residency is outside the Bartholomew Consolidated School district may apply for a transfer if they want their child to attend a BCSC school.

A student must reapply for transfer enrollment prior to transitioning into middle and high school. This means a student will have to reapply in their 6th and 8th grade school years.

Approval of a transfer is based on space available in the receiving school and the student's standing in their home corporation.

Questions regarding residency and legal transfers should be directed to 376-4280.

Out of district transfers call 812-375-1762.

Complaint Form

If you are homeless, you may qualify for certain rights and protections under the federal McKinney-Vento Act.

Please find more information here.

General Policy Statement - policy 5517

It is the policy of the Board of School Trustees to maintain an education and work environment that is free from all forms of unlawful harassment, including sexual harassment, occurring in the Corporation's educational opportunities, programs, and/or activities, or, if initially occurring off Corporation grounds or outside the Corporation's educational opportunities, programs, and activities, affecting the Corporation environment (hereinafter referred to collectively as "unlawful harassment"). This commitment applies to all Corporation operations, educational opportunities, programs, and activities. All students, administrators, teachers, staff, and all other school personnel share responsibility for avoiding, discouraging, and reporting any form of unlawful harassment occurring in the Corporation's educational opportunities, programs, and/or activities, or, if initially occurring off Corporation grounds or outside the Corporation's educational opportunities, programs, and activities, affecting the Corporation environment. This policy applies to unlawful conduct occurring on school property, or at another location if such conduct affects the Corporation environment.

The Board will vigorously enforce its prohibition against unlawful harassment, that is based on race, color, national origin, sex (including transgender status, sexual orientation and/or gender identity), religion, disability, military status, ancestry, or genetic information, which are classes protected by Federal and/or State civil rights laws (hereinafter referred to as "Protected Classes"), and encourages those within the Corporation community as well as third parties who feel aggrieved to seek assistance to rectify such problems occurring in the Corporation’s educational opportunities, programs and/or activities, or, if initially occurring off Corporation grounds or outside the Corporation’s educational opportunities, programs and activities, affecting the Corporation environment.

Sexual Harassment

Pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, "sexual harassment" is defined as:

Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, when:

A.Submission to such conduct is made either implicitly or explicitly a term or condition of an individual's status in a class, educational program, or activity.

B.Submission or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for educational decisions affecting such individual.

C.Such conduct has the purpose or effect of interfering with the individual's educational performance; of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive learning environment; or of interfering with one's ability to participate in or benefit from a class or an educational program or activity.
Sexual harassment may involve the behavior of a person of either gender against a person of the same or opposite gender.

Prohibited acts that constitute sexual harassment may take a variety of forms. Examples of the kinds of conduct that may constitute sexual harassment include, but are not limited to:

A.unwelcome sexual propositions, invitations, solicitations, and flirtations;

B.sexual violence, including physical and/or sexual assault;

C.threats or insinuations that a person's academic grade, promotion, classroom work or assignments, academic status, participation in athletics or extra-curricular programs or events, or other conditions of education may be adversely affected by not submitting to sexual advances;

D.unwelcome verbal expressions of a sexual nature, including graphic sexual commentaries about a person's body, dress, appearance, or sexual activities; the unwelcome use of sexually degrading language, jokes or innuendoes; unwelcome suggestive or insulting sounds or whistles; obscene telephone calls;

E.sexually suggestive objects, pictures, videotapes, audio recordings or literature, placed in the educational environment, which may embarrass or offend individuals;

F.unwelcome and inappropriate touching, patting, or pinching; obscene gestures;

G.a pattern of conduct, which can be subtle in nature, that has sexual overtones and is intended to create or has the effect of creating discomfort and/or humiliation to another;

H.remarks speculating about a person's sexual activities or sexual history, or remarks about one's own sexual activities or sexual history;

I.inappropriate boundary invasions by a Corporation employee or other adult member of the Corporation community into a student's personal space and personal life;

J.verbal, nonverbal or physical aggression, intimidation, or hostility based on sex or sex-stereotyping that does not involve conduct of a sexual nature;

K.in the context of employees, consensual sexual relationships where such relationship leads to favoritism of a subordinate employee with whom the superior is sexually involved and where such favoritism adversely affects other employees or otherwise creates a hostile work environment.
Not all behavior with sexual connotations constitutes unlawful sexual harassment. Sex-based or gender-based conduct must be sufficiently severe, pervasive, and persistent such that it adversely affects, limits, or denies an individual's employment or education or creates a hostile or abusive employment or educational environment.

NOTE: Sexual conduct/relationships with students by a Corporation employee or any other adult member of the School Corporation community is prohibited, and any teacher, administrator, coach, other school authority, or staff member who engages in certain sexual conduct with a student may be disciplined up to and including termination and also may be guilty of the criminal charge of "sexual battery" as set forth in I.C.35-42-4-8. In the case of a child under fourteen (14) years of age, the person also may be guilty of "child molesting" under I.C.35-42-4-3. In the case of a child between the ages of fourteen (14) and sixteen (16), the person also may be guilty of "sexual misconduct with a minor" under I.C.35-42-4-9. The issue of consent is irrelevant in regard to the latter two (2) criminal charges. Any employee accused of sexual relations with a student may be placed on leave until school administrative proceedings are completed. Proven sexual relationships with a student regardless of the age of the student will initiate the termination process for the employee.

Race/Color Harassment

Prohibited racial harassment occurs when unwelcome physical, verbal, or nonverbal conduct is based upon an individual's race or color and when the conduct has the purpose or effect of interfering with the individual's educational performance; of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive learning environment; or of interfering with one's ability to participate in or benefit from a class or an educational program or activity. Such harassment may include but is not limited to conduct directed at the characteristics of a person's race or color, such as racial slurs, nicknames implying stereotypes, epithets, and/or negative references relative to racial customs.

Religious (Creed) Harassment

Prohibited religious harassment occurs when unwelcome physical, verbal, or nonverbal conduct is based upon an individual's religion or creed and when the conduct has the purpose or effect of interfering with the individual's educational performance; of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive learning environment; or of interfering with one's ability to participate in or benefit from a class or an educational program or activity. Such harassment may include but is not limited to conduct directed at the characteristics of a person's religious tradition, clothing, or surnames, and/or involving religious slurs.

Disability Harassment

Prohibited disability harassment occurs when unwelcome physical, verbal, or nonverbal conduct is based upon an individual's disability and when the conduct has the purpose or effect of interfering with the individual's educational performance; of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive learning environment; or of interfering with one's ability to participate in or benefit from a class or an educational program or activity. Such harassment may include but is not limited to conduct directed at the characteristics of a person's disabling condition, such as negative comments about speech patterns, movement, physical impairments or defects/appearances, or the like.

The Corporation also will take immediate steps to impose disciplinary action on individuals engaging in any of the following prohibited acts:

A.Retaliating against a person who has made a report or filed a complaint alleging unlawful harassment (see definition on page1) or who has participated as a witness in a harassment investigation.

B.Filing a malicious or knowingly false report or complaint of unlawful harassment (see definition on page1).

C.Disregarding, failing to investigate adequately, or delaying investigation of allegations of unlawful harassment (see definition on page1), when responsibility for reporting and/or investigating unlawful harassment charges comprises part of one's supervisory duties.

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BCSC Bullying Policy

The School Board is committed to providing a safe, positive, productive, and nurturing educational environment for all of its students. The Board encourages the promotion of positive interpersonal relations between members of the school community. Bullying behavior toward a student, whether by other students, staff, or third parties, is strictly prohibited and will not be tolerated. This prohibition includes physical, verbal, and psychological abuse as provided herein. The Board will not tolerate any gestures, comments, threats, or actions which cause or threaten to cause bodily harm or personal degradation. Engaging in bullying behavior through the use of data or computer software that is accessed through a computer, computer system or computer network also is prohibited. This policy applies when a student is on school grounds immediately before or during school hours, immediately after school hours, or at any other time when the school is being used by a school group; off school grounds at a school activity, function, or event; traveling to or from school or a school activity, function, or event; or, using property or equipment provided by the school.

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