2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 17 — Education
RS 17:183.2 — Career option description


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§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. 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) By the end of the eighth grade, each student shall develop, with the input of his family, a Five Year Individual Graduation 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 Individual Graduation 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 Individual Graduation 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. Throughout high school, each student shall pursue the rigorous curriculum required for his chosen major by his school as approved by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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; Acts 2009, No. 246, §1, eff. July 1, 2009; Acts 2009, No. 298, §1, eff. July 1, 2009.

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