The Board shall provide, pursuant to rules of the State Board of Education, homebound instruction to students confined to home or hospital for physical disability, illness or injury; or when such confinement is recommended for psychological or psychiatric reasons.

Application for instruction shall include professional certification of the nature of the illness or disability, state the probable duration of the confinement and must be approved by the Superintendent or his/her designee.

The Superintendent may grant such recommended requests for homebound instruction and report such to the Board at its next regular meeting.

The Board will provide instruction only for those confinements expected to last at least two (2) weeks, but such exceptions may be made as the intermediate unit or the Superintendent deem advisable and so recommend.

The program of instruction given each student shall be in accordance with the standards established by the Secretary of Education.

The Board reserves the right to withhold individual instruction when:

1.  The instructor's presence in the place of a student's confinement presents a hazard to the health
     of the teacher.

2.  A parent or other adult in authority is not at home with the student during the hours of
     instruction.

3.  The condition of the student is such as to preclude his/her benefit from such instruction.

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