April 21, 2021
Dear Paris Independent Families:
Senate Bill 128 is a new law passed last month by the Kentucky General Assembly and signed by Governor Beshear that makes it possible for students currently enrolled in grades K-12 to use the 2021-22 school year to retake or supplement the courses or grades they have taken this school year.
Families have until May 1, 2021 to request to use the 2021-2022 school year as a supplemental school year. Courses taken during the supplemental year must be those the student previously was enrolled in or bear a reasonable connection to previous courses to be supplementary in nature. Due to these requirements, there will be limitations on the course offerings for students repeating grades 6 - 12. The Paris Independent Schools Board of Education must then decide before June 1, 2021 to either accept all of the requests or none of the requests.
If you are interested in this option for your child, please fill out
this online request form before 11:59 p.m. on May 1. Only complete the form if you would like to request the supplemental year. If you would like to request a supplemental year for more than one child, you must fill out a form for each of the enrolled students. Students may opt out of this opportunity any time before school begins on August 11, 2021.
If you have any questions about how this might affect your student, please enter them
here. We will share answers in a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document that will be posted on our website and communicated by the principals at each of our schools.
To help parents make an informed decision a few details are listed below:
- Students will receive the grade they earn in a retaken course. At the high school level, both the original grade and the new grade will remain on the transcript. The new grade will be calculated into the GPA of students in grades 9, 10 and 11. However, once a senior has graduated, their GPA cannot be changed.
- A graduated senior returning for a supplemental year will not have access to reduced-price dual-credit college courses.
- Students who choose the supplemental year may still participate in extracurricular activities. At the high school level, they must meet KHSAA age and other eligibility requirements. If the student is 19 before August 1, 2021, they will be ineligible for KHSAA sports during the 2021-22 school year.
The teachers and staff at Paris Independent Schools recognize their students’ resilience over this past year and will provide meaningful and challenging academic work in the summer and fall of 2021 to both recover learning and more importantly to accelerate learning so that students will engage and be inspired to move forward.
You know your child best, and we hope you will have a conversation with both your student and their teachers to determine whether this is the best course of action. Please let us know how we can support you.
Sincerely,
Stephen McCauley