Cell phones & Personal Electronics

Unless being used in class as part of the learning process, we expect students who bring electronic items to keep them locked in their lockers in a switched off mode until the end of school. The school is not responsible for lost or stolen electronic devices.

Students are expected to come to the Citizenship Office if they wish to contact their parents during the school day. Parents are expected to contact the school citizenship office if they need to contact their child.

The following are inappropriate uses of electronic devices:

• Harassment, threats, intimidation, electronic forgery, cyberbullying / cyber threats, videotaping in or out of the classroom, invasion of personal rights, cheating on tests/exams, or other forms of illegal behavior during the instructional and non-instructional day. Students are not to use material or text messages to invade personal privacy or harass another person, or disrupt the instructional day, or engage in dishonest acts.

• Videotaping by students, within the ACS Athens Campus, without proper permission from the administration is illegal.

Possible logical consequences include:

• Conversation with student and confiscation of the device to the Main Office until the end of the school day

• Confiscation of the device until parent pick meeting.

• Conversation with the Citizenship Coordinator and loss of device privileges for a period of time.

• Conversation with Principal

• Parent meeting