Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) students are expected to attend school to the fullest extent possible, but homebound services may be provided to students who are temporarily confined to home or a health care facility and are unable to attend school based upon certification of need by a licensed physician, a licensed clinical psychologist, a licensed nurse practitioner.
For the purposes of homebound instructional services, "confined at home or in a health care facility" means that the student is unable to participate in the normal day-to-day activities typically expected during school attendance; and absences from home are infrequent, of relatively short duration, or to receive health care treatment.
Homebound instruction is designed to provide continuity of educational services between the classroom and home or health care facility, for students whose medical needs, both physical and psychiatric, do not allow school attendance for a limited period of time. Homebound instruction may be used to supplement the classroom program for students with health impairments whose conditions may interfere with regular school attendance (e.g., students receiving dialysis or radiation/chemotherapy; or students with other serious health conditions).
Homebound
instruction
is
not
intended
to
supplant
school
services
and
is,
by
design,
temporary.
It
is
not
a
remediation
program
and
is
not
designed
to
provide
students
with
time
to
make
up
previously
missed
assignments.
The
goal
of
homebound
instruction
is
to
keep
the
student
as
current
as
possible
with
classroom
instruction
and
facilitate
the
student's
return
to
the
current
classroom
setting.
Applications
for
homebound
instruction
are
available
through
the
homebound
coordinator
at
your
student's
school.