Rights and Responsibilities

Students:

• Education in a safe, clean environment.

• Full use of class time to receive instruction and to learn.

• Fair, consistent, and respectful treatment by staff members and other students.

• Be heard, due process, and appeal before a penalty is imposed.

Teachers:

• Be safe and teach in a comfortable and friendly environment.

• Be listened to and respected.

• Adequate resources to ensure learning standards are met.

• Pastoral and professional support within the school and from appropriate outside agencies.

Parents:

• Be partners in their children’s education.

• Written information about school policies relevant to parents.

• Ongoing information about the educational progress of their child.

• Visit schools and classes at times that respect the educational environment.

• Be treated with courtesy by all members of the school staff.

• Be informed of school policies and administrative decisions.

Students:

• Explain any illegal or questionable absences from class or school activity to parents.

• Be on time for all classes, prepared with necessary books, materials, and homework assignments, and participate in the classroom work.

• Respect the right of the teachers to teach, free from any disruptive conduct.

• Respect the rights of others to study and to learn.

• Respect the public property and carefully use and return all materials and equipment.

• Students are expected to come to school every day with the essential items they need to be successful in their classes.

• Attend school daily unless ill or legally excused.

Teachers:

• Be prepared to teach and provide quality instruction within the current curricular framework.

• Exhibit an attitude of respect for students that has a positive influence in helping them develop good citizenship traits.

• Remain knowledgeable about school policies and rules, and enforce them in a fair, impartial, and consistent manner for all students.

• Communicate information regarding student progress and achievement on a regular and timely basis to students, parents, and other involved professionals.

• Communicate policies and expectations to students and parents, including course objectives and requirements, grading procedures, assignment deadlines, and classroom discipline plans.

• Mandated reporter of suspected child abuse and/or neglect to Child Protective Services.

Parents:

• Send their children to school regularly and punctually.

• To consistently set good examples of behavior.

• To support the school in promoting the school's ethos as described in the policy document.

• To provide adequate care and attention so that the child gains maximum benefit from school experience.

• To ensure their child comes equipped for school and in uniform.

• Support the school’s published policies and refrain from promoting negative advertising against the school verbally, in writing, and/or on any published medium, including social networking sites.

• Treat all members of the school community, including students and staff, with respect to promote a school environment that is free of harassment and accepting of diversity