Hello Everyone,
I have an update about parent volunteers in the school and on field trips.
Any adult in the building for an hour or more that could possibly be alone with a child needs to have a background check in our system. All official field trip chaperones also need a background check. This is for everyone’s safety.
There will be someone at MMA to conduct background checks next week on September 17th at 5pm – before the MAPA begins at 6pm. Volunteers will need to make 2 payments at this time $37 to MMA for processing and $25 to Academica West for doing the live scan. Cash, check, and charge are all accepted.
We realize that it can be tough for some of our families to pay for background checks and we don’t want this to be a barrier to volunteering inside school. Once you’re in this new system (Rapback), you will not have to pay or do this again. If a volunteer wants to know if they’re already in the system or not, please ask them to email Ms. Lana at lpas@mariamontessoriacademy.org.
This is not to say you cannot go on field trips without the background check, this just means you will only be able to chaperone your own child and not others. You can also go to any district office building and get your background check. Please contact Ms. Rene if this works better for you to get the proper paper work from her, rbaker@mariamontessoriacademy.org.
Thank you!
Jalee