Student Handbook - Blytheville Public Schools

District Policies
4.1—Residence requirements ............................. 3
4.2—Entrance requirements ............................... 3
4.3—Compulsory attendance requirements ...... 4
4.4—Student transfers ........................................ 4
4.5---School Choice .............................................. 5
4.6—Home schooling ........................................... 6
4.7—Absences ...................................................... 6
4.8—Make-up work ............................................... 7
4.9—Tardies .......................................................... 8
4.10—Closed campus .......................................... 8
4.12—Student organizations/equal access ........ 8
4.13—Privacy of students’ records ..................... 8
4.14—Student publications ............................... 10
4.15—Contact with students while at school ... 10
4.16—Student visitors ........................................ 12
4.17—Student discipline .................................... 12
4.18—Prohibited conduct .................................. 12
4.19—Conduct to and from school ................... 12
4.20—Disruption of school ................................ 12
4.21—Student assault or battery....................... 13
4.22—Weapons & dangerous instruments ..... 13
4.23—Tobacco and tobacco products .............. 13
4.24—Drugs and alcohol.................................... 13
4.25—Student dress and grooming .................. 14
4.26—Gangs and gang activity ......................... 14
4.27—Student sexual harassment .................... 14
4.28—Laser pointers .......................................... 15
4.29—Computer use policy ............................... 16
4.30—Suspension from school ......................... 17
4.31—Expulsion .................................................. 17
4.32—Search, seizure, and interrogations ....... 18
4.33—Students’ vehicles.................................... 18
4.34—Communicable diseases & parasites..... 19
4.35—Student medications ............................... 19
4.36—Student illness/accident .......................... 20
4.37—Emergency drills ...................................... 20
4.39—Corporal punishment ............................... 20
4.40---Homeless Students.................................. 21
4.41—Physical examinations or screenings .... 21
4.42---Student Handbook ................................... 22
4.43—Bullying ..................................................... 22
Table of Contents
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4.45.1—Smart core curriculum.........................23
4.45—Smart core curriculum............................23
4.47— Possession and use of cell phones. ....26
4.48—Video surveillance .................................27
4.52—Students who are foster children ..........27
4.53— Placement of multiple birth siblings ...27
5.11—Promotion/retention/ 9-12.......................29
5.12—Promotion/retention/k-8 schools ...........30
5.15—Grading ....................................................30
5.17F— Honor graduate opt out form ..............30
5.17—Honor roll and honor graduates ............30
5.21—Advanced placement ..............................30
5.22—Concurrent credit ....................................30
5.26 —Alternative learning environments ........30
2011-2012 Calendar ............................................. II
Elementary procedures
Awards .........................................................................31
Blytheville primary school’s purpose .......................30
Bus discipline procedures and consequences .......31
Bus riders ....................................................................37
Cafeteria ......................................................................32
Checking in / checking out ........................................32
Communication ..........................................................32
Contact by law enforcement......................................10
Corporal punishment ................................................32
Drills.............................................................................32
Equal educational opportunity ....................................3
Five rules of conduct .................................................32
Graduation requirements...........................................17
Great river promise ......................................................3
Parental involvement plan .........................................33
Parties..........................................................................35
Registration .................................................................35
School day ..................................................................35
Statement of responsibility ........................................iii
Student medications .................................................33
Student transportation ...............................................36
Tardies .........................................................................37
Telephone use .............................................................37
Visitors ........................................................................37
Welcome ........................................................................3
Wellness focus ..........................................................37
Withdrawal from school ............................................37