Rosebud Primary School

Discipline

Discipline

Due Process
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Disciplinary Consequences
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Drug Policy

Discipline
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RBPS has its goal to help every student fulfill his/ her intellectual, social, physical and emotional potential. Everything in and about the school has been designed to create an orderly and distraction-free environment in which all students can learn effectively and pleasantly. To foster this kind of a learning environment, RBPS administrators and teachers shall not allow the misbehaviors during school, on school property, or at or during any school-sponsored activities.

Every individual is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Students are expected to extend courtesy in their relationships. Actions, which injure others or words that hurt and insult are not tolerated at any time.

The principal and the teachers are available to work with the students to resolve conflicts and misunderstandings. Students with conflict problems should go to the duty teacher for help in resolving the immediate situation at once.
If anything happens to the students inside or outside the school area because of breaking the rules, the school is not responsible for any incident.

The disciplinary committee, which will meet fortnightly (or depend on situation) to get the decisions on cases, consists of Head of Discipline Committee and Homeroom teacher of the student.

The disciplinary committee has the right to increase or decrease the punishment based upon its judgement.
All discipline records will be transferred to the next year. If the student doesn’t repeat the improper behavior in the following year, his record will be cleared.

The following corrective measures will be used in case of violation of school rules:

- Warning (Counseling, Reprimand, etc)
- Loss of privileges
- Parental conference (The School keeps the right to inform the family for any case)
- Tasks assigned by the Committee.
- Detention after school, during lunch or on Saturdays;
- Suspension.
- Expulsion.

Each time a student violates the rules, s/he will be subjected to corrective measures. School may not accept the student for the next academic year due to the misbehavior of student.

Corrective Disciplinary Consequences
1. step: Student Conference - Clarify expectations and let student know what consequences will be recommended or assigned if inappropriate behavior continues.

2. step: Parent Conference - Parent informed by phone or in person with conference documented, incident explained, and future consequences reviewed.

3. step: In-School Disciplinary Consequences; In this step, the school discipline committee can decide to suspend the student from school.

EXPLANATIONS ABOUT UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIORS
As a student at RBPS, you may not;

Bring Cellular Telephones and/or Other Electronic Devices : They disrupt classes and distract others from learning. Cellular phones can be brought but it should be delivered to the office during school time.

Cheat and/or plagiarize : Cheating on tests, plagiarism, and/or any other types of deception to get credit without effort are unacceptable conduct.

Abuse and/or Misuse Computers : Computer hardware and software are for the benefit of all students. No student may purposefully tamper with either the hardware or the software so that it is inaccessible to other students. Computers are in the school for educational purposes. Abuse and/or misuse of the computers also include loading private software, or accessing inappropriate web sites or web pages using school equipment.

Disrupt Learning : Disrupting learning includes any behavior that prevents other students from learning. It may include but is not limited to inappropriate language, eating or drinking during class, insubordination and/or selling or trading personal possessions to other students.

Violate the Dress Code : Students shall come to school in uniform and in line with specific uniform and appearance limitations described in the handbook.

Give A False Fire Alarm : Any student who issues a false fire alarm is also subject to the legal authorities. The penalties for this, especially if any injuries result, may include jail terms.

Fight : School is not a place to arrange fights, whether those fights take place on or off school grounds. Fighting is any instance of physical contact in anger, regardless of whether fists or weapons are used. All students involved in the fight are subject to discipline. To assault a bystander, will be accepted unexcused offence for all students involved in fighting.

Forge : Any attempt by a student to sign a teacher’s, administrator’s, parent’s or guardian’s, and or student’s name to any school document will be considered forgery.

Gamble : Gambling includes but is not limited to card playing, dice shooting and sports pools and involves the transfer of money or personal belongings or assistance from one person to another.

Harass another Student and/or a Teacher, Administrator, or Staff Member : Harassment means making unwelcome advances or any form of improper physical contact or remark and any speech or action that creates a hostile, intimidating or offensive learning environment. Harassment is a violation of School's commitment to provide a physically and psychologically safe environment in which to learn.

Smoke or Use Other Tobacco Products and/or Bring Such Products to School : This includes cigarettes, cigars, herbs, and smokeless tobacco. Possession of tobacco products in purses or lockers is prohibited under this policy.

Steal and/or Vandalize Private or School Property : This means to cause or attempt to cause damage to a private property or steal or attempt to steal a private property either on school grounds or during a school activity, function, or event on school grounds. Students and their parents or guardians will be held responsible for any theft/vandalism that their student commits on school property.

Perform Threatening Behavior : Threatening behavior can include verbal threats, both face to face and over electronic media (phone and/or computers) and non-verbal threats, including “hard” stares, gestures, and so on, that cause or attempt to cause any student, teacher, administrator, or staff member to feel frightened or intimidated.

Be Truant : Truancy means being inexcusably absent from school or a class without the knowledge of a parent. Habitual truancy means a student has accumulated 10 consecutive days or 20 total days of absence in one semester.

Bring Any Kind of Weapon-like to School : A weapon includes, but is not limited to, conventional objects like guns, pellet guns, knives, or club type implements as well as mace, tear gas, or other chemicals. It may also include any toy that is presented as a real weapon. It also includes objects converted from their original use to an object used to threaten or injure another. The Administration reserves the right to all final decisions regarding the definition of what is a weapon. School personnel may search book bags, gym bags, coats, and/or any other containers if they suspect the presence of a weapon-like.