Student Grade Level Meetings November 7, 2007

1. Student Grade Level Meetings November 7, 2007

2. 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.”

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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 student’s locker; under the student’s 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.

6. 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.

7. Use common sense!

8. 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 student’s 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 student’s educational opportunities.

9. Bullying http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtFtbaKIYyg

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