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BUCS STUDENT BEHAVIOR AND DISCIPLINE
PLAN
Students are
expected to conduct themselves in a manner which allows both the student
and his/her classmates the opportunity to learn.
Southside has adopted a discipline plan
designed to set clear expectations and consequences. The plan also
includes rewards for those students who do an exemplary job of following
school rules. General discipline information, school expectations,
rules, progression of discipline for minor violations, definitions of
problem behaviors, and rewards are included in this handbook for your
information.
General Discipline
Information
1. Students may be suspended
for rude and disrespectful behavior toward
teachers,
staff, or principal.
2. Fighting or provoking fights will
not be tolerated. Students who provoke
or participate in a fight on the
school grounds or on a school bus will be subject to disciplinary
measures.
3. Harassment of any kind will not be
tolerated. Students who continually
harass other students will be subject to
disciplinary measures.
2.
Students who bring knives, razor blades, matches, cigarette
lighters, or other potential weapons or actual weapons will be subject
to disciplinary measures (possible expulsion).
3.
Those parents who do not
wish their child to be paddled need to put this in writing and deliver
the note to the office in person.
In lieu of paddling, a student may be suspended.
4.
Students who bring or are in possession of any type of tobacco,
alcoholic beverage, or medicine on campus will be subject to
disciplinary measures (possible expulsion).
5.
Students may not run in the halls, classrooms, bathrooms,
cafeteria, carpool area, or bus area.
6.
Students may not play fight or wrestle.
7.
Students may not play under the wooden playground equipment and
may not run in the gravel area around the equipment.
8.
Students are to keep their hands and feet to themselves.
9.
No footballs are to be brought to school.
10.
Students are not to bring any items to school other than those
items the teacher has given specific permission for them to bring.
Radios, makeup, jam boxes, headphones, cassette players, electronic
games, trading cards, toys, etc. are not to be brought to school.
Students may bring such items only if the teacher has given special
permission.
11.
Students are not to trade or sell items at school.
12.
Students are to not to chew gum at school or bring gum to school
unless they have special permission from their teacher.
13.
Students are not to bring cell phones to school. If brought,
they will be taken away and returned to parent.
14.
Students who habitually violate school or classroom rules may be
suspended.
15.
Disciplinary measures include conferences with the student and/or
the parent, removal of the student from activities, written punish-work,
loss of recess(es), corporal punishment, suspension, and expulsion.
16.
The Livingston Parish School Board Policy Manual provides more
information concerning student discipline and student’s rights to a
hearing and appeal when suspension or expulsion has occurred.
17.
Students not in compliance with the School Uniform Policy
shall be disciplined as follows:
i.
1st Offense -
Parent/Guardian contact
ii.
2nd Offense -
Administrative/Parent verbal contact
iii.
3rd Offense -
Detention
iv.
4th Offense -
One day out of school suspension for each offense
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL EXPECTATIONS AND RULES
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EXPECTATIONS |
LUNCHROOM
RULES |
HALL
RULES |
PLAYGROUND RULES |
RESTROOM
RULES |
BUS
RULES |
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BE
RESPECTFUL |
1. Keep your hands, feet,
and food to yourself.
2. Use “please”, “thank
you”, and good table manners.
3. Do not talk with food in
your mouth. |
1. Keep hands, feet, and
other objects to yourself.
2. Respect yours and other
people’s property. |
1. Keep your hands and feet
to yourself.
2. Use the “Golden Rule”.
3. Think before you act.
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1. Respect people’s privacy.
2. Be patient. |
1. Keep hands, feet, and
other objects to yourself.
2. Treat others as you would
want to be treated. |
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UPHOLD
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES |
1. Get all needed items as
you go through the line the first time.
2. Obey the Whisper Light
signal. |
1. Move to the right of the
red when others approach.
2. Go directly to your
assigned area (note needed for exceptions).
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1. Run in designated areas
only (K/1-by fence, 2-5 grass only).
2. Freeze when the bell
rings and line up quietly when the whistle blows.
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1. Turn off the water after
washing your hands.
2. Use the bathroom quickly
and quietly, then come right out.
3. Stay in bathroom until
both partners finish. |
1. Be on time at your stop,
and behave while you wait.
2. Walk quickly to the bus
to enter.
3. Have written permission
approved by the office to get on or off at a different stop
or to go home a different way. |
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COOPERATE |
1. Do your part to keep your
area clean.
2. Help others when needed.
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1. Maintain your “bubble”
(your personal space), and stay out of the personal space of
others.
2. Walk without talking. |
1. Play fairly; compromise.
2. Accept and include
everyone. |
1. Report serious problems
to the teacher.
2. Keep the restroom clean. |
1. Sit QUIETLY
with your back against your seat and behave so as not to
distract the driver.
2. Keep the bus clean.
3. Report serious problems
to the bus driver. |
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STAY
SAFE |
1. Stay in line without
talking facing forward.
2. Hold your tray with two
hands.
3. Use utensils properly. |
1. Walk in line facing
forward.
2. Put your book sack and
other items against the wall.
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1. Use equipment properly.
2. Walk out to recess in an
orderly manner.
3. Walk in from recess in a
line without talking, facing forward. |
1. Use bathroom equipment
and supplies appropriately.
2. Use caution if the floors
are wet. |
1. Keep all food, pencils,
and other items in your book sack.
2. Always cross in front of
the bus, never behind it.
3. Go home after you leave
the bus. |
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Classroom rules are
posted in each classroom.
Progression of
Discipline for Continuous Violation of BUCS’ Expectations and Rules
For minor violations
of BUCS’ expectations and rules, the following procedure is used:
- Warning—reminder
of expectations
- Behavior
Assignment--Write expectation and rule ___ times (grade level times
2). For homework if not completed at recess.
- Behavior
Assignment--Write expectation and rule ___ times (grade level times 5)
. For homework if not completed at recess.
- Assign Classroom
Behavior Improvement Form to complete and have signed by parent. If
not returned the next day completed and signed by parent, the student
will start on #2. If not returned the next day completed and signed by
parent, the student will start on #3 and the teacher will call the
parents.
- Send to the
office for Principal’s Office Behavior Improvement Form
If the student receives a 3rd
Principal's Office Behavior Improvement Form, a parent conference will
be required.
If the student receives a 4th Principal’s Office Behavior Improvement Form,
the student will serve an in-school suspension.
If the student receives a 5th Principal’s Office Behavior Improvement Form,
the student will serve an out-of-school suspension.
If the violations
continue after the out-of-school suspension, the consequences of parent
conference, in-school suspension, and out-of-school suspension will be
repeated.
This progression
will start over at the beginning of each semester.
For major or
severe violations, the student will be sent directly to the office.
DEFINITIONS OF
PROBLEM BEHAVIORS
Minor Problem
Behaviors include low
intensity problem behaviors that are violations of behavioral
expectations and rules but are not of sufficient intensity to warrant an
office discipline referral. They are to be addressed using the
procedure above. They include:
Inappropriate
Verbal Language—Low-intensity
instance of inappropriate language
Physical Contact—Not
serious, but inappropriate physical contact
Defiance/disrespect/Non-compliance—Brief
or low-intensity failure to respond to adult requests
Disruption—Low
–intensity, but inappropriate disruption
Property Misuse—Low-intensity
misuse of property
Other—Any
other minor behaviors that do not fall within the above categories
Major Problem
Behaviors will result in an
office referral. They include:
Abusive/Inappropriate Language/Profanity—Verbal
message that includes swearing, name calling or use of words in an
inappropriate way.
Alcohol—Student
is in possession of or is using alcohol.
Arson—Student
plans and/or participates in malicious burning of property.
Bomb Threat/False
alarm—Student delivers a
message of possible explosive materials being on campus, near campus,
and/or pending explosion.
Combustibles—Student
is in possession of substances/objects readily capable of causing bodily
harm and/or property damage (matches, lighter, firecrackers,
gasoline/lighter fluid).
Defiance/disrespect/insubordination/non-compliance—Refusal
to follow directions, talking back and/or socially rude interactions.
Disruption—Behavior
causing a major interruption in class or activity. Disruption includes
sustained loud talking, yelling, or screaming; noise with materials;
horseplay or rough-housing; and/or sustained out-of-seat behavior.
Dress Code
Violation—Student continues to
wear clothing that does not fit within the dress code guidelines
practiced by the school district after parental contact has been made by
the administration and/or teacher.
Fighting/physical
aggression—Actions involving
serious physical contact where injury may occur (hitting, punching,
hitting with an object, kicking, hair pulling, scratching, etc.)
Forgery/theft—Student
is in possession of, having passed on, or being responsible for removing
someone else’s property or has signed a persons name without that
person’s permission. For K-1, major only if multiple forgeries after
parental contact by teacher.
Harassment/teasing/taunting—Student
delivers disrespectful message (verbal or gestural) to another person
that include threats and intimidation; obscene gestures, pictures, or
written words.
Lying/Cheating—Student
delivers message that is untrue and/or deliberately violates rules
Other—Problem
behavior causing a referral that is not listed here. Staff using this
must specify the problem behavior observed.
Other Drugs—Student
is in possession of or is using illegal drugs/substances or imitations.
Property Damage—Student
deliberately impairs the usefulness of property.
Skip
class/truancy—Student leaves
class/school without permission or stays out of class/school without
permission
Tardy—Student
is late to class or the start up of the school day.
Tobacco—Student
is in possession of or is using tobacco.
Vandalism/Property Damage—Student
participates in an activity that results in substantial destruction or
disfigurement of property.
Weapons—Student
is in possession of knives or guns (real or look alike), or objects
readily capable of causing bodily harm.
BUCS’ REWARDS
Weekly
Every Friday,
students with no marks on chart get extra five minutes for second
recess. They will go out at 12:15.
Monthly
Last Friday of the month
will be BUCS’ Treasure Day—BUCS’
Treasure tokens will be filled out by school employees throughout the
month for students who are doing the right things based on our
expectations and rules. These will be put in treasure boxes located
throughout the school. On the Wednesday before the last Friday of the
month, students will bring home a form so parents can help students
choose their rewards. The BUCS’ Treasures can be used as follows:
BUCS’ Treasures
5 tokens Homework Pass—teacher decides
how it can be used
4 tokens Wear non-uniform shoes/socks
on BUCS’ Treasure Day
6 tokens Wear non-uniform shirt on BUCS’
Treasure Day
15 tokens Wear all non-uniform clothes
and shoes on BUCS’ Treasure Day
Acceptable for Treasure Store Purchases.
Items will be priced based on BUCS’ Treasures tokens only—no
money allowed.
Grade Level Rewards
Each
grade level will reward students who qualify by following school
expectations and
rules. Teachers will explain the reward system to the
students.
Every nine weeks
Principal’s Treasure Trove—Students from
each class who have the fewest number of marks for the entire nine
weeks will meet with the principal to celebrate by enjoying a snack
and drink. If there are students tied with the same number, they will
all attend.
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