Non-Negotiable Rules for our School Community
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Level One Rules:
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1. Students may not leave classrooms and/or offices without permission and an official pass.
2. Bathroom use is not allowed the first and last 5 minutes of each period.
3. No hoods are to be worn in the school building anywhere at any time by either male or female students. Dress code violations are prohibited.
4. Cell phones and other electronics must be off and turned in at the beginning of every class and retrieved at the end of every class. Use of cell phones and other electronics are only permitted before students’ first class of the day, during lunch and after school. Students may NOT take photos or videos AT ANY TIME during the school day.
5. No food or drinks other than water are allowed in the classrooms during class time.
6. Cutting class is NOT ALLOWED.
7. Lateness to school and class is not a positive habit that supports learning.
8. Students may not engage in disruptive activities which hinder the learning process for others.
9. Lying to, giving false information to, and/or misleading school personnel is prohibited.
10. Access to lockers is permitted only before students’ first class of the day, during lunch, and after school.
*Violation of Level One Rules will result in consequences as set forth in the “Ladder of Consequences.”
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Ladder of Consequences
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Step 1: Warning from the teacher (verbal or non-verbal)
Step 2: Face to face conference with the teacher
Step 3: Phone call to parent/guardian
Step 4: Referral to the Assistant Principal and/or guidance and detention
Step 5: Face to face parent/teacher conference
Step 6: Removal from class, Principal Suspension and/or Superintendent Suspension
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Level Two Rules:
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1. Use of obscene, threatening, or defamatory language towards other students or staff is not allowed and will not be accepted.
2. Vandalism-defacing, destroying or mutilating any school property is not allowed.
3. Students may not leave the building without permission.
4. Students may not engage in cheating, plagiarizing, or any other scholastic dishonesty.
5. Students may not in any way engage in unduly intimate or sexual behavior, or commit any form of sexual harassment.
6. Students may not fight or engage in roughhousing in the building or vicinity.
7. Students may not use or carry drugs or alcohol, nor use cigars or cigarettes on school property or at school events.
8. Students may not carry weapons of any kind.
9. Knowingly possessing property belonging to another without authorization is prohibited.
10. Students may not defy or disobey the lawful authority or directive of school personnel or school safety agents in a way that disrupts the educational process.
11. Students may not take photos or videos of one another during the school day without permission of a teacher or an administrator.
12. Students may not engage in harassing, intimidating, and/or bullying behavior, including using electronic communication to engage in such behavior.
13. Students may not in any way engage in threatening, dangerous, or physically aggressive or violent behavior.
*Violation of Level Two Rules will be promptly and firmly dealt with and may likely result in: a) lunch detention; b) student removal from class; c) pre-suspension hearing with student and parents; d) principal’s suspension; e) superintendent’s suspension; f) arrest by police in the case of a serious offense.