2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 17:183.2 — Career option description

§183.2.  Career option description

A.  To prepare students for choosing a career option at the high school level, in grades six through eight, teachers shall incorporate activities which expose students to career and technical and academic fields of study beginning in the 1997-1998 school year.  Such activities may include field trips, guest speakers, community services, and other activities such as word processing, desktop production, computer-assisted drafting and graphics, and other uses of technology.  At least six activities shall be conducted at each grade level during each school year.  Each teacher of grades six through eight shall maintain records of such activities.

B.(1)  Beginning in the 1998-1999 school year, by the end of the eighth grade, each student shall develop, with the input of his family, a Five Year Educational Plan.  Such a plan shall include a sequence of courses which is consistent with the student's stated goals for one year after graduation.  Each student's Five Year Educational Plan shall be reviewed annually thereafter by the student, parents, and school advisor and revised as needed.

(2)  School guidance counselors or others designated by the school principal, or both, shall be responsible for the completion of the Five Year Educational Plan of each eighth grade student.  The guidance counselors and others shall counsel each student with regard to high school graduation requirements and shall assist the student in developing his plan.  The guidance counselors and others shall forward such plans to the appropriate high schools where such students shall attend.

C.  During the ninth and tenth grades, each student shall pursue the rigorous core curriculum required for his chosen major by his school which shall include required course work as established by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and appropriate elective courses.

D.  Students shall be able to change from one major to the other at the end of any school year.

Acts 1997, No. 1124, §1; Acts 2001, No. 191, §1, eff. May 31, 2001.