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Dr. Jim Arnold, Principal jarnold@mcsdga.net |
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A school bus is like a classroom and the drivers will set rules for proper behavior; Telephones in the offices are for official business. Please don’t ask your child to call home for instructions. Instruct your child to see a school official in emergency situations; Pay phones may be used before or after school hours. Prescribed drugs and medicines are to be kept in the Main Office. Students impersonating parents for checking out face a minimum of one-day home suspension. Upon arriving on campus, students are to leave the parking area and enter the building; Cars and the parking area are off-limits during the day. Restrooms are not for loitering or social gathering. Please help us keep them clean; Student records are maintained on academic achievement and attendance. To request transcripts, parents should contact the school. All instances involving drugs, alcohol, weapons, or unlawful situations of loitering, trespassing, or aggressive force will be reported to the police; Students will not be allowed to sleep in class, and will face disciplinary action if this becomes a repeated behavior; The Muscogee County School District offers student accident insurance to all students in the Muscogee County School District. The insurance is available to you at a nominal fee. If you are interested, please contact the main office for the contact person to obtain this coverage. If you do not wish to take out Student Accident insurance, your child’s health insurance is your responsibility. The Muscogee County School District does not carry health coverage on students.
Eating at School Eating at school is permissible only in the cafeteria during lunch hour. No food or drinks will be taken to other areas or consumed during class. Teachers will be expected to monitor this before and after school and during every class period.
Hall Passes Students are not to be out of class without the classroom teacher’s permission. Teachers may allow students to leave class only when absolutely necessary and then will issue the student a hall pass. Students are not allowed to leave the lunchroom during lunch periods without a pass from a teacher. Students out of class without authorization are considered to be skipping.
Weapons and Dangerous Instruments A student shall not possess, use, handle, or transmit a knife, cane, machete, pistol, rifle, shotgun, pellet gun, or other object that reasonably can be considered a weapon. Any student that makes use of any object as a weapon in an act of violence will be subject to expulsion for the remainder of the year or permanent expulsion. The police will be involved in the investigation of the possession of an illegal weapon. Weapons that are not “illegal” will be judged according to the facts and circumstances of the case. Situations will apply to students when they are: On the school grounds at any time; Off the school grounds at a school activity, function, or event; En route to and from school; En route to and from school functions, activities, or events. Any student accused and found guilty of possessing, using, handling or transmitting a dangerous weapon as indicated in the above paragraph will be expelled for the remainder of the school year or permanently.
Fighting Settle your differences in a way other than fighting. Let a teacher or administrator know when there is a potential problem so we can help before a fight erupts. We don’t want anyone to get hurt fighting; and this practice will not be tolerated at school. Fighting is considered a major offense because it threatens the safety of our students and teachers, and is a major disruption to the school day. Students who fight at school will be suspended for at least 5 school days, and charged by the Columbus Police Department with a minimum charge of Disorderly Conduct.
Scholastic Dishonesty The following are considered scholastic dishonesty and shall be strongly disciplined: Taking of information of any form into a test situation for the purpose of responding to test items or assisting others; Plagiarism; Taking of test questions or materials to provide assistance in later test situations; Copying or allowing the copying of work during a test situation; Copying or allowing the copying of work (homework) when the copied material is to be counted as part of the student’s work.
Campus Authority Students must be aware that all teachers, secretaries, administrators and school system employees have authority over students. Instructions from a teacher or staff member are to be followed by every student whether or not that student is assigned to their respective class or area. All faculty and staff members have the responsibility of enforcing all rules, regulations, and policies.
Alcohol, Narcotics, Stimulants, & Other Dangerous Drugs The Muscogee County Board of Education places the highest priority on the elimination of substance abuse in the school and in the community. The use, possession, or transmitting of illicit substances will be met with firm and consistent disciplinary measures. Students in the Muscogee County School District are prohibited from possessing, using, selling, transmitting, intending to transmit, or being under the influence of alcohol and substances made illegal by the Georgia Controlled Substances Act: This includes On the school grounds during, immediately before, or immediately after school hours; On the school grounds at any other time when the school is being used by and school group; On the school grounds at a school activity, function, or event; Within legal proximity to school grounds as designated under Georgia Statutes; On the way to or home from school; At any school-sponsored function, whether held during or after regular school hours, whether held on or off school property; On the way to or from school functions, activities, or events or during any time those students are under the jurisdiction of school authorities.
Illegal and dangerous substances defined by local and state laws are covered by this policy. Such substances include, but are not limited to: Drugs (stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, inhalants, opiates) including but not limited to narcotic drugs, amphetamines, barbiturates, marijuana, cocaine, or any other contraband or controlled substance or prohibited drug; Alcoholic beverages or intoxicants of any kind; Prescriptive medicine or drugs, with or without medical cause or medical permission, unless such medications have been registered with the school’s main office personnel according to school procedures. Parental permission to have or use substances prohibited by this policy, including alcohol, does not exempt a student from this policy. All students found guilty of selling substances prohibited by the policy will be permanently expelled, with no appeal for re-entry. Students required to take medication during school hours must have the medicine kept and administered in the main office.
Electronic Devices Students are not allowed to bring cell phones, beepers, tape players, walkie-talkies, or CD players to school. These items, if found before, during, or after school will be collected and kept in the office. They may be picked up by parents on the last day of the school year. Students violating this rule more than once face home suspension.
Public Display of Affection Public display of affection is inappropriate for school or school activities. Holding hands will be the limit of tolerance and allowance.
Students on Campus After 3:05 PM Students are asked to leave the school campus immediately after the close of the school day. If students are participating in an extracurricular activity, the sponsor for that activity is responsible for the supervision of the students until all students from that activity are gone. The sponsor of the activity should have a designated area for his/her students to wait. Under no circumstances are students to be allowed to roam over the campus or visit locker areas after the activity is concluded. The sponsor of the extracurricular activity should be outside with all of his/her students while waiting on transportation. Students who stay after school for extra help or detention should leave campus immediately after their time is up if their ride is here. If waiting on a ride, students are asked to wait outside the front entrance to the school. Extra-curricular activities often require practices and rehearsals after school. Participants in these activities should go to their lockers immediately after school, and will not be allowed in locker areas after practices and rehearsals. Students who do not follow these rules will be asked to give their names to any school employee who observes them. The students will be referred to the Assistant Principal the next school day for disciplinary action. The disciplinary action may include after school detention, ISSP, Saturday School, or Home Suspension. Students from other schools are not welcome on our campus unless involved in official business, and must sign in as visitors in the main office and obtain a visitor’s pass. Shaw students are also warned against visiting other schools unless on official business.
Lunch and Breakfast We have ample eating space and an outstanding menu offering. You are expected to exhibit good manners in order that everyone can enjoy breakfast or lunch break. Parents may not bring pizza or fast food to students from outside the building, but are welcome to eat lunch with us. Students are expected to follow these guidelines: Report directly to the cafeteria when the bell rings; Remain orderly and maintain a low conversational tone; If you bring your lunch, eat only in the cafeteria; Clean off the table before you leave and properly dispose of waste, tray, and silverware; DO NOT leave the cafeteria during your assigned lunch period. After you have eaten, remain in the cafeteria until the bell rings for dismissal. Do not sit or stand in the locker areas during lunch time. Students may go visit the guidance department during lunch, but a hall pass is required to go elsewhere on campus;
Dress Code All students will wear their pants or shorts at or above the waist--sagging pants will be treated as a dress code violation; Shorts, dresses, and skirts must be at least as long as the tip of the longest finger when hands are held by the side; Students must wear their shirts buttoned and tucked in; including sports jerseys of any type or logo. All shirts (inner and outer) must be tucked in for boys and girls; Shirts that do not cover the midriff, spaghetti straps, and tank tops are not permitted; if a shirt is too short to tuck in; it may not be worn to school. See-through clothing of any type is prohibited. Undershirts, boxers, briefs, or thermal underwear are not to be worn as outer garments OR exposed; Soccer shorts, athletic shorts, cut-off jeans, professional logo, college logo, and no-name athletic shorts are not appropriate in classes other than P.E., flip-flops; Hats, scarves, or head coverings of any type are not appropriate inside the school building at any time.
Students who fail to follow school dress code guidelines are to be referred to the office. This will be an unexcused absence from class, and work missed may not be made up. Students corrected more than once for dress code violations may receive home suspension. All rings, studs, ornaments, and jewelry must be removed before a student will be allowed to participate in PE or sports activities. A student shall not dress, groom, wear, or use emblems, insignias, badges or other symbols where the effect thereof is to attract unreasonably the attention of other students or otherwise to cause disruption or interference with the operation of the school. It is prohibited for any student to wear clothing items which advertise alcoholic beverages, drugs, sex, tobacco, obscene, crude or suggestive messages of profanity. Designs or insignias that are part of a haircut, satanic symbols, gang-related badges, insignias and colors, logos or symbols which denigrate social or ethnic groups are also prohibited. “Fake” alcohol or drug advertisement is also disallowed. The Principal or other duly authorized school official shall determine whether any particular mode of dress, apparel, grooming, emblems, insignias, badges or symbols results in such interference or disruption as to violate this rule, and shall give notice of such disruption to all students by announcement or posting at the school. Those students who, in the opinion of the Principal, are not dressed appropriately may not return to classes until properly dressed and groomed.
Tobacco Students are not permitted to possess, use, or transmit tobacco in any form anywhere on school property at any time or at any off campus, school-sponsored activity. If you have any tobacco products in your pockets, in your locker, in your purse, or elsewhere, school personnel may confiscate and dispose of it. Possession, transmission, or use of lighters, paraphernalia, or tobacco in any form is a suspendable offense. ISSP or Saturday School will not be a consideration for violation of this policy. Students suffering from nicotine addiction should see their counselor for important information and programs designed to help them quit.
Sexual Harassment It is the policy of the Muscogee County Board of Education to maintain a learning environment free from sexual harassment. It shall be a violation of this policy for any staff member to harass a student, or for students to harass other students or any school employee through conduct or communications of a sexual nature. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other inappropriate oral, written, or physical conduct of a sexual nature when made by a member of the school staff to a student, or when made by any student to another student or system employee, constitutes sexual harassment when any of the following occurs: Verbal harassment or abuse; Pressure for sexual activity; Repeated remarks to a person with sexual or demeaning implications; Unwelcome touching. Suggesting or demanding sexual involvement accompanied by implied or explicit threats concerning ones’ grades, job, etc. Any person who alleges sexual harassment by a staff member or student in the school district may complain directly to a Counselor, the Principal, or any school district employee. Filing of a complaint or otherwise reporting sexual harassment will not reflect upon the individual’s status nor will it affect future employment, grades or job assignments. The right to confidentiality, both of the complainant and of the accused, will be respected consistent with the Board’s legal obligations, and with the necessity to investigate allegations of misconduct and take corrective action when this conduct has occurred. All allegations of sexual harassment shall be fully investigated and immediate, appropriate corrective or disciplinary action shall be initiated. Appropriate documentation shall be maintained on all allegations of sexual harassment. A substantiated charge against an employee or student shall subject such person to disciplinary action including suspension or expulsion. Legal Reference: Title VII of the Civil Right Act of 1964; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 Franklin V. Gwinnett County Public School, 1992.
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H. Shaw High School