22.1-273 - Sight and hearing of pupil to be tested. - Virginia Statutes

§ 22.1-273. Sight and hearing of pupil to be tested.

The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall prepare or cause to beprepared, with the advice and approval of the State Health Commissioner,suitable test cards, blanks, record books, and other appliances for testingthe sight and hearing of the pupils in the public schools and necessaryinstructions for the use thereof. The State Department of Education shallfurnish the same free of expense to all schools in a school division uponrequest of the school board of such division accompanied by a resolution ofthe school board directing the use of such test cards, blanks, record booksand other appliances in the schools of the school division.

Within the time periods and at the grades provided in regulations promulgatedby the Board of Education, the principal of each such school shall cause thesight and hearing of the relevant pupils in the school to be tested, unlesssuch students are pupils admitted for the first time to a public kindergartenor elementary school who have been so tested as part of the comprehensivephysical examination required by § 22.1-270 or the parents or guardians ofsuch students object on religious grounds and the students show no obviousevidence of any defect or disease of the eyes or ears. The principal shallkeep a record of such examinations in accordance with instructions furnished.Whenever a pupil is found to have any defect of vision or hearing or adisease of the eyes or ears, the principal shall forthwith notify the parentor guardian, in writing, of such defect or disease. Copies of the reportshall be preserved for the use of the Superintendent of Public Instruction ashe may require.

(Code 1950, § 22-248; 1980, c. 559; 1981, c. 142; 1995, c. 246.)