Discipline

Positive Discipline Program

• WE BELIEVE ALL OF OUR STUDENTS CAN BEHAVE APPROPRIATELY AT SCHOOL. 

• A positive school climate involves students who play an important role in their own educational program. In such an atmosphere, the classes are neither teacher-dominated nor student controlled; rather they are joint efforts in experiencing, relating, learning, and treating each other with dignity and respect. The discipline program needs to be a simple structure with reasonable rules from which follows natural, realistic, and logical consequences. Using this program, students learn to label and assume responsibility for their own feelings and/or actions, allowing them to solve problems they have created. This discipline program is a learning process that teaches the child to accept responsibility for the choices he/she makes and the consequences of those choices.

STCE students are: 

Respectful, Responsible, and Ready to Learn

Minor Offenses:

• Minor offenses are handled on the spot by teachers, paraprofessionals, or administrators.
  
  

Major Offenses: 

• Refer to the Columbia County Elementary Student Code of Conduct.

Objects not allowed:

• Radios, tape recorders, video games, toys and cameras may not be brought to school without permission from the principal. 

• Head wear and sunglasses are not to be worn at school without permission from the principal. 

• Cell phones must be turned off and put away at all times.