Student Behavior
School Wide Expectations
We strive to provide a nurturing environment in which all children can flourish and
grow, and enhance their self-worth. In order to accomplish this, we have
established five behavioral expectations that teachers and staff are responsible
for enforcing at all times.
The Sun Language School Five Behavioral Expectations are as follows:
1. Listen and follow directions.
2. Keep negative comments to yourself.
3. Respect yourself, others, and property.
4. Remain on-task and complete all work.
5. Make good choices.
Students of Sun LanguageSchool are expected to behave in appropriate and considerate ways whenever they are in school or at a school function. Any actions that disrupt the learning process, offend others or deprive others of their rights are considered to be inappropriate and unacceptable. Appropriate students behavior and attitudes include but are not limited to the following:
• Always treat other people in the way in which you would want to be treated
• Walk, do not run in the hallways and staircases
• Speak at appropriate levels and avoid cursing, obscenities and negative language
• Keep out of the hallways during class time as much as possible
• Keep staircases clear and unobstructed
• Realize that constant moving around and standing produces noises and disrupt classes
• Understand that racial, ethnic, religious discrimination or vulgar language degrade the speaker as well as the victim
• Always eat and drink in the playground and not in hallways, classrooms or staircases
• Clean up after yourself, especially in the classrooms and playgrounds
• Refrain from roughhousing in the building, on school grounds and at off-campus school activities
• Always respect the property of the school and others in the school community
• Students are not allowed to chew gum in school
Students who make poor choices or behave in a manner that is not consistent with our school wide expectations will incur natural and logical consequences in accordance with their behavior.
Student behavior during The Morning Assemblies is expected to be courteous and responsible at all times. Talking to nearby students, attempting to use the rest rooms, and throwing of objects, are all examples of the types of disturbances and interruptions that will not be tolerated, as they do not reflect positively on the school and its entire student body. During assemblies, students must comply with directives and requests made by any faculty or staff member. Student misbehavior will result in any one or combination of the following consequences:
- removal from assembly
- detentions
- parental contact
- exclusion from future assemblies
- other consequences deemed appropriate by the administration
Misconducts
A student may be subject to disciplinary action as provided in the school’s
Disciplinary Penalties and Procedures, up to and including suspension from school,
when he or she, while on school property or engaging in a school activity:
A. Engages in conduct that is disorderly, intentionally causing public inconvenience,
annoyance, or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk to himself/herself or others.
Examples of disorderly conduct include:
1. Running in hallways;
2. Making unreasonable noise;
3. Using language or gestures that are profane, vulgar or abusive;
4. Engaging in any willful act that disrupts the normal operation of the school community; and
5. Engaging in any conduct using the schools computer network or the Internet that is in violation of the school’s acceptable use policy.
B. Engages in conduct that is insubordinate. Examples of insubordinate conduct include:
• Failing to comply with the lawful directions of teachers, school administrators or other school employees in charge of students or otherwise demonstrating disrespect to such employees;
• Skipping classes or detention; and
• Lateness for, missing or leaving school without permission.
C. Engages in conduct that is violent. Examples of violent conduct include:
1. Committing, attempting or threatening to commit an act of violence, such as hitting, kicking, punching, scratching or throwing any projectile, upon a teacher, administrator, other school employee, another student or any other person on school property;
2. Intentionally damaging or destroying the personal property of a teacher, administrator, other school employee, another student or any other person on school property, including by graffiti or arson; and
3. Intentionally damaging or destroying school district property.
D. Engages in any conduct that endangers the safety, morals, health or welfare of others. Examples of such conduct include:
1. Being untruthful to school personnel;
2. Stealing the property of other students, school personnel or any other person on school property or attending a school function;
3. Defamation, which includes making false or unprivileged statements or representations about an individual or identifiable group of individuals that harm the reputation of such person or identifiable group by demeaning them;
4. Discrimination, which includes the use of race, color, creed, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability as a basis for treating an individual in a negative manner;
5. Harassment, which includes a sufficiently severe action or a persistent, pervasive pattern of actions or statements directed at an individual or identifiable group which are intended to be, or which a reasonable person would perceive as, ridiculing or demeaning;
6. Intimidation or bullying;
7. Hazing, which includes soliciting, encouraging, aiding or engaging in any intentional, knowing or reckless act directed against a student for the purpose of being initiated into, affiliating with, holding office in, or maintaining membership in any organization, club or athletic team whose members are, or include, other students;
8. Selling, using or possessing obscene material;
9. Using vulgar or abusive language, cursing or swearing;
10. Smoking a cigarette, cigar or pipe, or using chewing or smokeless tobacco in school or on school property or while attending a school function; Indecent exposure, which includes exposure to sight of the private parts of the body in a lewd or indecent manner; and
11. Initiating a report warning of fire or other catastrophe without valid cause, or discharging a fire extinguisher.
E. Engages in any form of academic misconduct. Examples of academic misconduct include:
1. Cheating.
2. Plagiarism.
3. Copying.
4. Altering records.
5. Forging notes, passes or excuses.
6. Assisting another student in any of the above actions.
