Valley Has New Discipline Policy
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
AKRON - Assistant principal Jeff France outlined the new discipline policy that will be implemented at Tippecanoe Valley Middle School at Monday's school board meeting.
France said the policy was given a trial run by the seventh-grade team during the last nine weeks of the 1996-97 school year with promising results.
Students will receive warning slips for misbehavior. Accumulating four warning slips will result in a disciplinary referral. Each disciplinary referral will advance a student one step farther along the nine-step program, with the end result being expulsion.
France said the program allows a student 36 chances to change unacceptable behavior. Week one of the trial program, 64 white slips and 12 discipline referrals were issued. Those numbers continued to drop and by the ninth week, it was necessary to issue only three white slips and two discipline referrals. France believes the new program will help relieve many of the discipline problems the middle school has faced the last two years.
France also asked the board to look at an alternative education program. PASS (Planned Academic Student Suspensions) would provide an alternative to home suspensions for students committing violations of the code of student conduct. The program would serve students in grades four through 12. An off-site location would be provided where students suspended from school would attend daily for the duration of their suspension. No attendance days would be lost and the students would be required to complete work, for which they would receive credit. The program would also provide opportunities for students to work on behavior management skills, conflict resolution and goal setting.
Students who have committed serious offenses such as assault, possession of a weapon or sale of drugs, as well as those who pose a danger to themselves or others, would not be permitted to participate.
The board will act on the proposal at the next meeting.
In other business, the board approved extending contracts for administrators and coaches. The following were extended through June 30, 1999: Brett Boggs, Jack Fisher, Jeff France, Dan Kramer, Rod McKee, Charles Mills, Karen Shelley, Ted Straiger, Duane Burkhart, Scott Bibler. Karen Boling's contract was extended through Nov. 5, 2000.
Contracts for Greg Sciarra and Mike Walters were not extended and will expire June 30, 1998. [[In-content Ad]]
AKRON - Assistant principal Jeff France outlined the new discipline policy that will be implemented at Tippecanoe Valley Middle School at Monday's school board meeting.
France said the policy was given a trial run by the seventh-grade team during the last nine weeks of the 1996-97 school year with promising results.
Students will receive warning slips for misbehavior. Accumulating four warning slips will result in a disciplinary referral. Each disciplinary referral will advance a student one step farther along the nine-step program, with the end result being expulsion.
France said the program allows a student 36 chances to change unacceptable behavior. Week one of the trial program, 64 white slips and 12 discipline referrals were issued. Those numbers continued to drop and by the ninth week, it was necessary to issue only three white slips and two discipline referrals. France believes the new program will help relieve many of the discipline problems the middle school has faced the last two years.
France also asked the board to look at an alternative education program. PASS (Planned Academic Student Suspensions) would provide an alternative to home suspensions for students committing violations of the code of student conduct. The program would serve students in grades four through 12. An off-site location would be provided where students suspended from school would attend daily for the duration of their suspension. No attendance days would be lost and the students would be required to complete work, for which they would receive credit. The program would also provide opportunities for students to work on behavior management skills, conflict resolution and goal setting.
Students who have committed serious offenses such as assault, possession of a weapon or sale of drugs, as well as those who pose a danger to themselves or others, would not be permitted to participate.
The board will act on the proposal at the next meeting.
In other business, the board approved extending contracts for administrators and coaches. The following were extended through June 30, 1999: Brett Boggs, Jack Fisher, Jeff France, Dan Kramer, Rod McKee, Charles Mills, Karen Shelley, Ted Straiger, Duane Burkhart, Scott Bibler. Karen Boling's contract was extended through Nov. 5, 2000.
Contracts for Greg Sciarra and Mike Walters were not extended and will expire June 30, 1998. [[In-content Ad]]