Volunteers

Dear Parents,

Please remember the following if you plan on chaperoning on upcoming field trips, helping out with a special event such as a play or living museum, or wishing to volunteer for your winter class party.

You must be an approved volunteer and showing as approved in the Raptor system for the 2014-2015 school year.

**__Remember, background checks have to re-done each school year.__** It does take a week or two for the background checks to process and show up in Raptor so please encourage parents to apply as soon as possible. We can not let a parent be a volunteer even if they are saying they submitted the application, but they are not showing in Raptor. You have to be in the Raptor database to be allowed to volunteer.

A reminder about how this works for field trips. On the day of the trip, all approved volunteers will put on a volunteer Raptor badge. Only parents with a volunteer (not visitor) Raptor badge may chaperone students. Same thing for class events. If a parent is wearing a visitor Raptor badge they are certainly allowed to be a spectator, but will not be assigned any responsibilities during the event.

Here is the info for the background check application. Feel free to share with your parents who need it.

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Thank You for your assistance,

Stacy Rawlins Administrative Associate Teravista Elementary 512.704.0510