The classroom teachers use a systematic, assertive discipline plan that is posted in the classroom and reviewed with students the first day of class. Consistency is important.
The overall plan establishes firm and consistent limits for students. The program also establishes a positive educational environment for both student and teacher.
Every effort is made to develop positive reinforcements that can be applied to individual students as well as classrooms. In general, the process below is used to determine consequences for disregarding school or classroom rules:
• Warning from teacher or supervisor.
• Teacher discipline, parent notification.
• Teacher discipline, parent notification, student detention and/or work detail assigned.
• Administrative discipline, parent notification, student in-school suspension.
• Mandatory parent conference (includes administrator, parent, teacher, and student). Contract may be developed to permit continued attendance, which may include requiring a parent to attend classes with student. This level results in the loss of attending school-sponsored events including after-school sports programs.
• Administrator assigns short-term or long-term suspension (parent notified of student’s pending removal from the school).
• Administrator recommends long-term suspension/expulsion. Board of Directors makes the final determination and may hear an appeal.
Students in Grades 5-8 are subject to the following disciplinary actions:
Three detentions received in a fifteen school-day period may result in a half-day in-school suspension.
After two in-school suspensions in a semester, the next detention assignment may result in moving the student to a mandatory parent conference. Additional detentions may result in short term out-of-school suspension.
Students receiving in-school or out-of-school suspensions may be assigned zero credit for tests, quizzes, homework, and any other assignment missed while serving their suspension. Work must be made up for the academic benefit of the student.