From the BCCT:
By: RACHEL CANELLI
Bucks County Courier Times
BRISTOL SCHOOLS
Families are required to provide identification, such as a driver's license, and proof of residency, like a utility or tax bill.
Attention Bristol parents: You need to re-register your children for the 2010-11 school year at Bristol Borough Junior/Senior High School by Aug. 26 or they may not be admitted to school.
The guidance office will be open from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 12:01 p.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday over the next two weeks to help ease the process. The office is closed for lunch from 11 a.m. to noon.
Parents should have received notices in the spring, and the district is sending out automated phone calls as a reminder to parents, said business manager Joseph Roe.
"We did this district-wide 10 years ago, but not to this extent since," he said. "We just asked certain people (to prove borough residency) who had red flags, like a piece of mail came back undeliverable. We just thought it was time to redo it (district-wide) because otherwise, it's like we're starting to pick on certain people."
Families are required to provide identification, such as a driver's license, and proof of residency, like a utility or tax bill, Roe said.
Bristol school board President Ralph DiGiuseppe III said during a meeting Wednesday night that the district solicitor is working on finding out what happens if unregistered kids show up to school.
Roe said if parents aren't available when the guidance office is open, the district will offer special arrangements to make sure students are registered.
"We're bending over backwards to get this done," he said. "So there's no excuse for people not to comply."
How to re-register
Re-registration is being held at Bristol High School's guidance office, 1801 Wilson Ave., from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 17 through 19 and Aug. 24 through Aug. 26. The office is closed from 11 a.m. to noon.
August 13, 2010 02:08 AM
