Teaching is our primary mission and security is important for our students’ well-being.  The following is the HCDB Visitor Policy.  This policy will apply to staff members’ families and friends as well.  Staff members should minimize personal visitors.  Visitors who come for planned meetings or arranged tours are considered to be "approved” for longer than five minutes by the administration.

1.       Students’ parents/guardians are welcome to visit for as long as they wish or need to, and we encourage parents to let the office staff know they are visiting.  We appreciate and encourage parents’ interest and involvement in their children's education.  It is important, however, that students’ work not be disrupted.  We thank our students’ parents for their cooperation in this.  Non-custodial parents must seek legal permission to see children.

2.       All other visitors must report to the office, sign in, and pick up "VISITOR” badges.  We would like family members other than parents/guardians of students to do this, too, because of the various offices housed on our campus that are not HCDB programs.  Visitor badges are to be worn until visitors sign out when they leave campus.  Please note, we request that visitors contact the counselor to arrange visits that are most convenient for HCDB staff and students if at all possible, so student work is not interrupted.  Visitors for specific students, other than parents or legal guardians, may be denied visitation on campus until parents’ legal permission is secured.

3.       For tours of campus and classrooms, you must make arrangements with the Counselor, Harry Hayler at 733-4821.  Tours are given at specified times that are most convenient for students and staff so that student work is not interrupted, as noted above.

4.       Visits to classrooms, other than parents’ visits, are limited to five (5) minutes.  Approval can be given for a longer time from the office for specific circumstances.  Other "walk-in” visitors are also respectfully requested to observe the five (5) minute limit unless it is convenient or necessary for HCDB staff members to see them for longer.

5.       If a visitor has an approved meeting at HCDB, it is important to check into the office, and wait there until they are met by their "host”.  The meeting is considered "approved” for as long as needed to complete the business at hand.

6.       For visits to the dormitory, approval must be given through the office.  This may mean that "last minute” visits will not be approved.

7.       No photographs or videotapes of students or staff may be taken without written permission of the Administrator!