It is the responsibility of the Carthage R-9 School District to ensure the civil rights of, and protect its students that are released for off campus internship training experiences in accordance with the Schools to Careers Act of 1993. Therefore, the following criteria should be met:
- The student will be enrolled in a related class - AOE, COE, SOC, and Business Coop.
- The student will meet a minimum number of credits in order to be released through a specified work program - seniors must attend school a minimum of 4 of the 8 blocks while juniors must attend school a minimum of 7 of the 8 blocks.
- The student will work at an approved training station, and retain employment for the course of the current school year.
- The student will be supervised by the coordinator responsible in the appropriate area.
- The student will gain credit for the internship work experience.
- All parties participating in these programs will not discriminate in training and/or employment opportunities on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, or handicap.
- There are seventeen Hazardous Occupations Orders (HOO) described in detail in the law. Minors under age 18 may NOT be employed to work in these occupations unless they qualify for an exemption as a student learner or apprentice enrolled in a state recognized training program.
Those of the seventeen which may be exempted are:
- Power-driven woodworking machines
- Power-driven metal-forming, punching and shearing machines
- Slaughtering, or meat packing, processing, or rendering
- Power-driven paper products machines
- Power-driven circular saws, band saws, and guillotine shears
- Roofing operations
- Excavation operations.
Those of the seventeen which may not be exempted are:
- Manufacturing and storing explosives
- Motor vehicle driving and outside helper
- Coal mining
- Logging and sawmilling
- Exposure to radioactive substances
- Use of power-driven hoisting apparatus
- Mining, other than coal
- Power-driven bakery machines
- Manufacturing brick, tile and kindred products
- Wrecking, demolition and ship breaking operations.
