Gifts/Donations
Teachers and other staff members are not permitted to accept gifts or articles of value from individual students, classes, parents, or school salesmen.
Parents and students may express their gratitude through small tokens, personal notes, bouquets of flowers, and greeting cards at holiday times.
At times, the school may have to decide on whether to accept an offer of a gift, bequest and/or a donation of either monies, materials, equipment or personnel. The decision to accept or reject such offers shall be made by the Board.
The Director and the Board will use their good judgement about whether to accept such donations ensuring that it would be in the best interests of the school and its educational goals. In addition, they will take into account additional expenses, origin of funds, time, resources and ultimate value-added to the school, when making their decisions.
Accepted donations will be gratefully acknowledged by the Director on behalf of the Board and school community. Cases in which it is decided not to accept the donation, will receive a grateful acknowledgement with an explanation that the offer does not concur with the educational goals of the school.