ParentStudentHandbook2017-18 AUG.17

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Personal conferences with pupil. Teacher assigned detention.

Parental contact––inperson parent conference; by phone; in writing.

Conference with other teachers.

Conference with Guidance Counselor, with or without the pupil.

Teacher initiated performance contract. Informal conference with administration. Child Study Team referral, if warranted. Referral to appropriate administrator. Intervention and Referral Services referral.

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ONCE A STUDENT IS REFERRED TO THE ADMINISTRATOR IN CHARGE, THE ADMINISTRATOR WILL EVALUATE THE SITUATION AND, IN CONTEXT OF THE STUDENT’S DISCIPLINARY HISTORY AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS/HER MISBEHAVIOR, ASSIGN THE APPROPRIATE DISCIPLINARY MEASURES AS NEEDED. IV. STUDENT DETENTIONS The Superintendent shall develop general guidelines for student conduct on school property and shall direct development of detailed regulations suited to the age level of the students and the physical facilities of the individual schools. Board policy requires each student of this district to adhere to the rules and regulations established by the administration and to submit to such disciplinary measures as are appropriately assigned for infraction of those rules. We hope that verbal reprimands, warnings, and conferences would deter repeated misbehavior by students. When these consequences do not modify student behavior, detentions become a more viable option. V. STUDENT SUSPENSION AND EXPULSION We hope that verbal reprimands, conferences, demerits, and detentions would deter repeated misbehavior by students. When these consequences do not modify student behavior, suspensions become a more viable option, and in cases of extreme seriousness, a recommendation for expulsion may occur. The right of a school district to utilize these disciplinary procedures is defined in New Jersey Statutes: "Any student who is guilty of continued and willful disobedience, or of open defiance of the authority over him, or of the habitual use of profanity or of obscene language, or who shall cut, deface or otherwise injure any school property, shall be liable to punishment and to suspension or expulsion from school." Student conduct, which shall constitute good cause for suspension or expulsion of a pupil guilty of such conduct, shall include, but not be limited to, any of the following: 1. Continued and willful disobedience. 2. Open defiance of the authority of any teacher or person having authority over him/her. 3. Conduct of such character as to constitute a continuing danger to the physical assault upon another pupil. 4. Physical assault on another student. 5. Taking, or attempting to take, personal property or money from another pupil, or from his person, by means of force or fear. 6. Willfully causing or attempting to cause, substantial damage to school property. 7. Participation in an unauthorized occupancy by a group of pupils or others of any part of any school or other building owned by any school district, and failure to leave such school or other facility promptly after having been directed to do so by the Principal or other person in charge of such building or facility. 8. Incitement which is intended to and does result in unauthorized occupation by any group of pupils or others of any part of a school or other facility owned by the school district, 9. Incitement, which is intended to and does result in truancy by other pupils. 10. Use, possession, distribution, acquisition, and/or selling of (or the intent to sell) controlled dangerous substances.

A. Out–of–School Suspensions (OSS) is assigned for repeated infractions or serious infractions such as fighting, threatening behavior, possession of alcohol or controlled substances, theft, etc. Out–of–school suspensions may be from one to ten days in duration,

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