Student Disciplinary Policy

Aims: 

The main goals of disciplinary policy are to: 
  • provide students with a happy and secure environment in which they may learn and develop. 
  • enhance students’ sense of responsibility, self-discipline, self-respect, and motivation. 
  • create an atmosphere of tolerance in which diversity is appreciated and respected and students can develop good interpersonal relationships with work and study habits. 
  • develop students’ awareness of their own worth. 
  • cultivate students’ acceptance and recognition of responsibility for their own decisions and actions and for the consequences of their actions. 
  • Provides a set of guidelines for good behavior which will help to develop each student’s self-discipline and create the conditions for an orderly community in which effective learning takes place and mutual respect is present among all members. 

Scope: 

Student discipline is essential not only within the school environment but also within the local community. Therefore, all students are subject to the rules whenever they are on school premises, in school uniform, on school bus, travelling to and from school, and on school sponsored trips. 

Rights of students and parents: 

Student discipline is essential not only within the school environment but also within the local community. Therefore, all students are subject to the rules whenever they are on school premises, in school uniform, on school bus, travelling to and from school, and on school sponsored trips. 

Students’ responsibilities: 

Students also have certain responsibilities, both as citizens and as members of the House of English American School. These responsibilities are in effect for all school functions whether the student is on premises or off premises (traveling to or from school via transportation provided by the school). To guarantee students’ rights, students will assume responsibility for their own refrain from infringing upon the rights of others.  

Responsibilities of students and parents: 

Parents must be the school partners in dealing with students who are undisciplined. Parents’ support at home will be of great benefit. Parents must believe that the school is being fair with the well-being of the student at heart. We expect parents to set the best example for their children and reinforce respect for others at home, at school and in the community. Parents, as partners in educating their children, have responsibilities in maintaining a positive attitude of students: 

  • To establish high expectations for the child’s school behavior. 
  • To ensure regular attendance. 
  • To work cooperatively and respectfully with teachers and students. 

Students are expected to: 

  • Avoid tardiness and show up to school and to classes on time. 
  • Show appropriate behavior at assemblies and dismissal time in classes, hallways, and staircases. 
  • Remain quiet and orderly in the classroom and be attentive to instruction.  
  • Respect the teacher and classmates. 
  • Be concerned about the safety and well-being of others 
  • Behave courteously toward any adult or fellow student. 
  • Follow the teacher's directions for seating, conduct and dismissal. 
  • Be prepared for class. 
  • Be responsible for keeping their lockers clean, tidy, and closed unless they are using them.  
  • Be responsible for their belongings, especially school textbooks. 

Students are not expected to: 

  • Leave the school grounds during school hours without a permission slip from the office. 
  • Use profane or gestures, writing or pictures. 
  • Engage in any type of fighting (this includes play-fighting)  
  • Intimidate, harass, or threaten other students. 
  • Be disrespectful to, or use other student’s property (lockers, bags, etc.) 
  • Use or throw any dangerous objects or weapons (pepper spray, Swiss knives, laser pointers, cutters, keychains, etc.) that will endanger or harm other people. 
  • Be on school grounds before 8:00 am or after 2:30 pm unless involved in a supervised activity. 
  • Engage in any dishonest behavior (cheating, forgery of signatures, plagiarism, etc.) 
  • Be out of class during lessons. It is expected that lavatory visits will be made between lessons or at break-time.  
  • Run in the building before, during, or after school. 
  • Misuse any school property, e.g. write on walls or desks, access prohibited internet sites, etc. 
  • Wear hats, bandanas, sunglasses, jewelry, or accessories in the building. 
  • Eat or chew gum anywhere in the school building or on the school bus.  
  • Sell any item on school grounds (other than school approved fund-raisers). Items and any money involved become school property.