Grenada Upper Elementary School’s School-Wide Discipline Plan

At Grenada Upper Elementary School, we are committed to providing a safe, orderly environment for our students and staff.  We believe that we can achieve this objective through the cooperative effort of administrators, teachers, students, and parents.  Together, we can accomplish the best teaching and learning environment possible for teachers and students.

All teachers will have a written discipline for his/her classroom.  The plan must be communicated in writing to students and their parents several times throughout the school year.  For behaviors other than intolerable behaviors, such as fighting, profanity, etc., teachers will need to talk to the parent before sending a student to the office with a referral.

All classrooms will enforce the basic rules of the GUES School-Wide Discipline Plan:

1. Come to class prepared and have appropriate working materials.
2. Be respectful of all persons and property.
3. Speak courteously to teachers, fellow students, and school staff.
4. Follow all classroom rules and procedures.
5. Accept responsibility for his/her work and behavior.

Negative consequences are not our desired choice to change student behavior.  However, certain misbehavior will not be tolerated.  These misbehaviors will result in immediate removal from the classroom setting and may result in suspension, recommendation to the alternative program, and/or expulsion.

Intolerable Behaviors:

1. Fighting
2. Vandalism
3. Repeated failure to cooperate with teacher imposed behavior consequences.
4. Profanity and vulgarity (spoken, written or gestured)
5. Possession of a weapon or dangerous substance
6. Threatening a school district employee or volunteer
7. Failure to identify oneself to a school district employee or volunteer
8. Gang related behavior (spoken, written or gestured)
9. Use or supply of any controlled substance or intoxicant
10. Serious violation of any rule or policy of the Grenada School District

Teacher Imposed Consequences

Each teacher will have the GUES school-wide rules posted in his/her classroom.  Each teacher may also have his/her own classroom rules and is given latitude in determining how to correct minor infractions of classroom rules.  When a student’s behavior is determined to be continuous, and the student has not responded to the teacher’s correction, the following steps should be taken:

1. Teacher/Student conference to discuss the problem, the expected classroom behavior, and the plan for correcting the behavior.
2. Teacher contact with the parent by telephone to discuss the problem and steps the parent may take to help correct the behavior.  This must be documented on the GUES Parent Contact Log. 
   1. Contact by letter is acceptable only if a telephone is not available.  You will need to require a parent/guardian signature on the written correspondence and ask that he/she come in for a conference.
3. Teacher/Parent Conference
4. After all other options have been exhausted, the student may be referred to the office.

Teachers should always document steps taken to correct a student’s behavior.  If a student’s behavior has improved and no consequences have taken place for a reasonable period of time, the student may move back one step on the discipline chart.

Administrator Imposed Consequences     

Once the student has been sent to the office, the principal/assistant principal will take the following steps to correct or deter further misbehavior.  These steps will be followed sequentially unless it is determined that the offenses are of such nature that more serious consequences must be given.

1. Conference with the student to discuss the problem and the expected classroom behavior.  The remaining steps will be fully explained to the student at this time.  The parent will be contacted.
2. One day In-School-Detention or corporal punishment and/or referral to counselor.
3. Two days In-School-Detention or corporal punishment and/or referral to counselor, and contact with the parent from the office.
4. One (1) day of Out-Of-School Suspension and contact with the parent from the office.
5. Three (3) days of Out-Of-School Suspension and parent/teacher/administrator conference.  The student will not be allowed to return to the classroom until this conference has been held.
6. Five (5) days of Out-Of-School Suspension.
7. Seven (7) days of Out-Of-School Suspension.
8. Nine (9) days of Out-Of-School Suspension.

Any further discipline problems will result in long-term suspension or expulsion.