Student Grade Level Meetings

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• Student Grade Level Meetings
• November 7, 2007

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WASD Board Policy 218

• Student Discipline
• The Board shall require each student to adhere
  to Board policies and the rules and regulations
  promulgated by the administration and to submit
  to disciplinary measures appropriately assigned
  for infraction of those rules. School rules and
  Board policies shall govern student conduct in
  school, at school-sponsored activities, and
  during the time spent in travel to and from
  school.

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TEACHERS/STAFF HAVE LEGAL RIGHT TO ADDRESS YOUR
BEHAVIOR AND PERFORMANCE

• This is in loco parentis. This means
  teachers/staff and administrators in the
  Pennsylvania public schools are given authority
  by 13-1317 of the School Code to have the same
  authority over the conduct and behavior of their
  pupils as that exercised by any person in a
  parental relationship to the pupils, which
  includes parents and guardians. This authority
  may be exercised by school authorities while the
  pupils are "going to and from their homes" as
  well as while they are attending school.
• BASICALLY PA State Law states that
  Teachers/Staff can tell you what to do in a
  professional and reasonable manner when you are
  in school.

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WASD Board Policy 218.1Weapons

• The Board prohibits students from possessing and
  bringing weapons and replicas of weapons into any
  school district buildings, onto school property,
  to any school sponsored activity, and onto any
  public vehicle providing transportation to school
  or a school sponsored activity. The areas
  covered by this policy include school buildings,
  school grounds, campus parking lots, school
  buses, school bus stops, school district service
  complexes, premises and vehicles used for
  official school purposes, and transportation
  routes to and from school. This policy will be
  in effect at school district-sponsored activities
  held off school campuses.

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Definitions

• Weapon the term shall include but not be
  limited to any knife, cutting instrument, cutting
  tool, firearm, shotgun, rifle, replica of a
  weapon, and/or any other tool, instrument or
  implement capable of inflicting serious bodily
  injury.
• Possession a student is in possession of a
  weapon when the weapon is found on the person of
  the student in the students locker under the
  students control while on school property, on
  school property, on property being used by the
  school, at any school function or activity, at
  any school event held away from the school, or
  while the student is coming to or from school.

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Consequences for Weapons Violation

• The school district shall expel for a period of
  not less than one year any student who violates
  the weapons policy. Such expulsion shall be
  given in conformance with formal due process
  proceedings required by law. The Superintendent
  may recommend modifications of such expulsion
  requirement on a case-by-case scenario.

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Use common sense!
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WASD Board Policy 218.4 Bullying

• Bullying is unwelcome verbal, written,
  electronic, or physical conduct directed at a
  student by another student or students, or by an
  adult, that has the intent and effect of
• Physically harming a student.
• Damaging, extorting or taking a students
  personal or academic property.
• Placing a student in reasonable fear or physical
  harm.
• Placing a student in reasonable fear of damage to
  or loss of personal or academic property.
• Systematically and intentionally excludes a
  student from activities with peers.
• Spreading false information about a student or
  attempting to influence others to exclude a
  student from an activity.
• Creating an intimidating or hostile environment
  that substantially interferes with a students
  educational opportunities.

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Bullying

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vPtFtbaKIYyg

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Other topics

• Cafeteria
• Class Transitions
• Graffiti
• Respect the computer lab
• Future Student Incentive Days
• Curtin Proud!