Title
Discipline
General
Students shall be respectful to teachers at all times and accept encouragement and discipline from their teachers. Teachers shall be consistent and fair in assigning and administering discipline.
Middle school students will receive a noon detention for behavior or attitudes determined detrimental to the overall school spirit. This will be served for 30 minutes with an accompanying writing exercise assigned by the teacher issuing the detention. Parents will receive a written notice to be signed and returned for each detention. The accumulation of three detentions in any one marking period will result in an after school detention. The 5th detention in any one marking period results in a one-day in-school suspension. Parents will be notified at least one day in advance of the after-school detention. It shall be the parents' responsibility to provide transportation home for middle school students receiving an after school detention. Examples of actions resulting in detentions are:
- arguing or debating with teacher
- challenging accepted school standards
- loud, abusive, or suggestive language
- frequent classroom misbehavior
- lack of responsibility in completing assignments, or failure to return
required papers, etc.
- passing notes during class or study hall
Other forms of discipline may include additional noon detentions, writing essays or sentences, after school detentions, isolations, etc. Corporal punishment shall not be used as a form of student discipline. Teachers will give priority to the following discipline methods:
- Nonverbal cues and verbal appeals
- Confronting students to stop and think on their behavior
- Holding students accountable to agreed upon behavior
- Praise and rewards
- Denial of recess privileges
- Time outs
Citizenship
The school wants to help each student develop qualities of good character
and citizenship. To do this, standards of conduct are established. Students
are expected to practice self-discipline, because the best control is
internalized. However, parents and teachers need to help students when
they fail to control or discipline themselves. The school encourages
good citizenship through the use of a "Thumbs Up" program
to recognize positive behavior.
House Rules
- Respect for teachers, other adults, and fellow students is expected
at all times. Talking back, disregarding instructions, and wisecracks,
will not be permitted.
- Persons leaving a room have priority over those entering. Students
waiting to enter a room shall wait quietly in line at the designated
areas.
- Lavatories are not intended to be visiting areas.
- The art room in the middle school is restricted, except for planned classes and by special permission.
- Elementary students have priority in use of the recreational equipment north of the elementary building when using playground equipment at recess.
- Sit to swing.
- Not climb up slide.
- Seesaw with only one child on each end.
- Remain in an upright position on the carousel and do not jump off
and on the carousel when in motion.
- Line up orderly and quietly before entering the elementary classroom building.
When moving through the school students shall:
- Walk quietly in buildings and hallways (on the right side).
- Be in their seats before the tardy bell rings.
- Talk in low conversational tones in the building when talking is appropriate.
- Raise their hands when they want to talk during a class period.
- Use wholesome speech at all times.
- Knock before entering when needing to talk with a students or teacher in another classroom.
The following are not permitted:
- Leaning back on chairs.
- Sitting on desk tops, tables, and window ledges/sills.
- Chewing gum (except by permission for special sports events.)
- Bringing radios, cell phones, pagers, beepers, laser pens, or CD players
to school.
- Using malicious, profane, or suggestive language.
- Bringing personal CD's or tapes except by permission of teachers.
- Engaging in rough or unbecoming behavior.
- Throwing objects in the building.
- Tampering with the bells, intercom system, or the fire alarm.
- Bringing pocket knives, toy or real guns, matches/lighter to school.
- Throwing snowballs
Suspension AND Expulsion
A students who receives 5 noon detentions in one quarter will be suspended
in-school for a minimum of one day. An administrator will then call
a conference with the student and his/her parents.
Any student being suspended will be given a right to be heard prior to being suspended.
Suspensions may also be given in certain cases of unacceptable student conduct including the following: harassment, possession, distribution, or use of tobacco, harmful drugs, intoxicating drink, weapons, including knives, matches/lighters, or obscene literature. Reentry, after suspension, will be based upon the proper response of both the student and his/her parents.
In some cases a students may be expelled from school by action of the Board of Trustees.
