Class Rules

The following are the rules that will be maintained during the school year so that all students will be able to reach their highest potential.

 -- Everyone in this class deserves respect - including the teacher - and should be treated that way. No put-downs will be acceptable. 

 -- Please be ready to participate, in your assigned seat, when the bell rings. (the school-wide tardy policy will be enforced.) 

-- Please have all materials necessary to participate in class everyday. These include: textbooks, notebook, and writing instrument. 

-- Please help to create and maintain a positive learning environment in this class. 

-- Please listen when a student or the teacher is speaking. Interrupting the teacher or another student is unacceptable. Raise your hand if you have something to say. 

-- Please stay in your assigned seat unless excused. 

-- Please use the time between classes to use the restroom, put on make-up, etc. 

-- Please have all assignments completed on time. Late work is one-half of your score on that assignment. NO MAKE UP WORK WILL BE GIVEN FOR TRUANCIES. 

-- It is the student’s responsibility to ask for and make up work if absent. One week is allowed for any make up work. 

 -- Please remove your hats and hoods when indoors. 

 -- Profanity will not be tolerated. 

-- NO CELL PHONES or ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Turn them off; put them away.  If your cell phone interrupts the class, it will be treated as a classroom disturbance. ________________________________________________________________________ Discipline step policy for failure to comply with rules: 

 First violation: parent contact 

 Second violation: parent contact – Teleparent 

 Third violation: parent contact – phone call 

 Fourth violation: parent contact, referral to counselor, and detention 

Fifth violation: parent contact, referral to vice-principal, and detention 

Sixth violation: parent contact, referral to vice-principal, and Saturday school 

Seventh violation: parent contact, referral to vice-principal, and one-day suspension Eighth violation: parent contact, referral to vice-principle, and two-day class suspension. ________________________________________________________________________ Grades will be earned on the following scale 

 100% - 90% = A 

 89% - 80% = B 

 79% - 70% = C 

 69% - 60% = D 

 59% - 0% = F