Each student will come to class prepared with the materials needed to fully participate in the learning experience, complete the required homework for each class, and respect classmates and teachers by obeying classroom rules.

The following guidelines establish general procedure when school rules or incidents requiring disciplinary action occur.  However, the teacher and administration discretion will apply in specific instances.  This is a comprehensive policy, effective not only at school, but also when students are at liturgy, school activities, and field trips, sporting events, in the cafeteria, and on the playground.  These are the following guidelines for academic detention:

* When a student misses an assignment for the first time in any subject, the teacher will document the first offense.

** When a student misses an assignment for the second time in any subject, a yellow warning notice will go home to be signed.  The warning notice must be signed and returned to the teacher the next day or it will be an automatic detention.

*** After the third offense in any subject, the teacher will issue a detention notice.  A phone call from the teacher issuing the detention will be made and detention will be scheduled at the next possible date.

Detention will be held every Tuesday after school until 2:45. (Please be prompt picking up your child.)  If a student does not attend detention, arrangements must be made by parents for the child to attend the next scheduled detention.

Students must have work complete and up to date in all subjects before participating in any field trip or extra school activity such as movies, assemblies, etc.

Students who have received a warning from staff about behavior or language will be allotted a month to show improvement to be permitted to participate in the next school activity.

Refer to the Guidelines of the Student Handbook (page 16) for further information about participation in Extra Curricular Activities.

At the end of each grading period, all warnings will be wiped out.  Our hope is that the student can develop self-responsibility, good study skills, and organizational skills in the most positive manner.  A clean slate will begin after each grading period ends.

Certain behaviors warrant automatic detention.  An immediate phone call to parent(s) from the teacher who has issued the detention will be made from the school.  Examples include but are not limited to physical contact, smoking, etc.  Arrangements for serving this detention will be made at the time of the phone call.  The detention notice still must be signed and returned the following day.