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Student Expectations and Guidelines

INSTRUCTIONAL TIME

Students shall not:

  • Roam in the hallways during instructional time without an authorized pass.
  • Loiter in the hallways, restrooms, classrooms, or any other area on campus.
  • Be allowed to tend to personal hygiene, grooming and use of restroom after the start of classroom instructional time. (Grooming should be taken care of prior to arrival to school no perfumes, makeup, cologne allowed on campus).
  • Disrupt the learning environment (talking without consent, laughing, loud noises, or other actions that cause a disruption to the learning environment).
  • Bring on campus any outside food, drinks, candy, snacks, etc. with the intent to consume, distribute, or sell.
  • Leave the safety or supervision of their teacher, teacher aide, counselor, coach, administrator or any district employee acting in a supervisory role at any time without authorized written permission.
  • Open any exterior or interior doors for any individuals to enter or exit without administrator permission

DISREGARD FOR AUTHORITY

Students shall not:

  • Fail to comply with directives given by school personnel (insubordination). 
  • Violate dress and grooming standards as communicated in the Student Handbook.
  • Leave school grounds or school-sponsored events without permission.
  • Disobey rules for conduct in district vehicles.
  • Refuse to accept discipline management techniques assigned by a teacher or principal.

MISTREATMENT OF OTHERS

Students shall not:

  • Use profanity or vulgar language or make obscene gestures.
  • Fight or scuffle. Record, Instigate or encourage fights, scuffles, or bullying. 
  • Threaten a district student, employee, or volunteer, including off school property, if the conduct causes a substantial disruption to the educational environment.
  • Engage in bullying, cyberbullying, harassment, or making hit lists. 
  • Release or threaten to release intimate visual material of a minor or a student attending Memorial (PAISD) with or without the student’s consent.
  • Engage in conduct that constitutes sexual or gender-based harassment or sexual abuse, whether by word, gesture, or any other conduct, directed toward another person, including a district student, employee, board member, or volunteer.
  • Engage in conduct that constitutes dating violence. 
  • Engage in inappropriate or indecent exposure of private body parts.
  • Participate in hazing. 
  • Cause an individual to act through the use of or threat of force (coercion).
  • Commit extortion or blackmail (obtaining money or an object of value from an unwilling person).
  • Engage in inappropriate verbal, physical, or sexual conduct directed toward another person, including a district student, employee, or volunteer.
  • Record the voice or image of another without the prior consent of the individual being recorded or in any way that disrupts the educational environment or invades the privacy of others.
  • Wear loud distracting colored hair (no pink, purple, orange, green etc.)  clothing or items that reflect gang affiliation or depict any type of guns, drugs, skulls, death, violence or any other obscenities.

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