DISCIPLINARY GUIDELINES

Discipline is the responsibility of every teacher in the school system.  Much of the work of teachers and administrators involves maintaining a safe, orderly and positive teaching and learning environment.  In order to create a constructive learning atmosphere, it is necessary that the principal and teachers consistently use the same practices and procedures. No one should be creating a different type of atmosphere from the other teachers and administrators.  Teachers are expected to handle situations in class.

If you have exhausted all means available to you with regard to student misbehavior, please follow this procedure:

Call the office immediately and notify them you are dismissing a student from class.  Direct the

student to report immediately to the office. 

Do not leave a class unattended.  If you must accompany the student to the office, get a replacement first.  If a student refuses to leave the room, call for an administrator on the handset in the room.

As soon as possible, send a conduct referral to the main office.  Explain the offense in detail and

without judgment. If a student is sent to the office by a teacher, we will not take any action until we

receive a conduct referral from the teacher.  It is important that when we talk to the student we have

in writing the teacher's explanation of the problem.  Without this written explanation, it is impossible to handle the problem effectively.

At the request of the administration, the parent may be contacted and  requested to visit the school

to aid in the solution of the problem.

In cases of inappropriate behavior, the administration may employ any of the following or a combination of disciplinary or corrective measures:

                                A.            Parent notification;

                                B.            Parent conference scheduled by classroom teacher;

                                C.            After school detention;

                                D.            Work assignment after school with parental permission;

                                E.            In-school suspension/detention;

                                F.            Involvement of law enforcement officials;

                                G.           Involvement of the Department of Social Services and/or Probation Department;

If detention or suspension is necessary, the student will not be able to participate in school activities until detention/suspension has been completed.  This includes dances, plays, interscholastic sports, music programs, etc... 

Any school work missed while the student is under suspension must be made up by the student.  Long term assignments which fall due during the period of suspension are due on the day the student is reinstated.

In the process of carrying out this policy, it may become necessary to remove some students from school.  Every effort will be made to seek alternate placements for these students.

The entire staff should attempt to help students formulate attitudes which will enable them to become constructive, responsible citizens.  The students themselves must come to realize that the school is not the place to perpetrate unacceptable patterns of behavior. Home and school both have the responsibility to guide the student in making the right decisions regarding conduct.