Cover Your Awesome Kid – Discipline Matter Records Request Template

Date: 

TO: Principal (__________), Special Education Coordinator (_____), Teacher (_________), and Registrar,

I am writing to request my child, ___________’s (DOB:_____) complete and cumulative educational records, including but not limited to:

  • All communications between parent/guardian and school personnel, i.e., emails, text messages, letters, screenshots
  • Social-emotional-behavioral documents
    • Behavior trackers
    • Suspension notices/letters – describing the behavior/reason for suspension, the number of days, who made the decision, etc…
  • Incident reports and/or investigations
  • Evidence of alleged incident(s) – anecdotal, photos, video footage, witness statements/interviews, etc…
  • Behavior plans, 
  • Behavior contracts, 
  • Safety/Crisis Plans, 
  • Behavioral evaluations, 
  • Descriptions of the Responses to Intervention (“RTI”) the school tried,
  • List of trusted adults in the school, etc…
  • School meeting notes written by the parent/guardian(s) and/or the school, i.e., MDT meetings, meetings about social-emotional-behavioral concerns, suspension conferences, parent-teacher meetings, etc…
  • Medical records:
    • Prescriptions
    • Documents confirming diagnoses
    • Intake documents
    • Doctor notes excusing absences 
    • Information about outpatient doctors, like a therapist or psychiatrist? If yes, what are their names, why does she see them, what is her treatment plan
    • Documents about any hospitalizations, (i,e. reasons for admission, length of stay, treatment plans)
  • All Report Cards 
  • Parent-Contact Log
  • Class schedules
  • All attendance records, (i.e: daily attendance, attendance for each class, an explanation for all abbreviations/codes in the attendance record; attendance incentive plans, attendance incentive plan, etc…)
  • Math, reading comprehension, and writing schoolwork samples;
  • All observation reports; and
  • Parent Contact Log or other communication logs;   

I would like copies of all these documents as PDF attachments.  

Please confirm receipt and let me know if you have any questions. Please let me know if you will be able to fulfill any part of, or the entire, request for records by _______________. They can be (emailed or mailed) to me at this address ________________ (or I can pick them up from the school). 


Best,

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