Students committing infractions may be punished by suspensions, expulsion, or other disciplinary action.  The following infractions constitute offenses for which students may be held strictly accountable in all elementary schools:

1. Possessing weapons or using any tool or instrument to do bodily harm.

2. Initiating or instigating a fight.

3. Participating in a fight.

4. Possessing or using fireworks or other explosives on the school campus, at school-sponsored events, or on a school bus.

5. Loitering on any school campus or school bus while under suspension or during truancy.

6. Threatening or striking a teacher or any other school personnel.

7. Possessing or using narcotics or alcohol on any school campus, school bus, or at any school-sponsored event.

8. Possessing or using tobacco on any school campus or on any school bus.

9. Willfully initiating any false fire alarms.

10. Willfully defacing, stealing, or destroying school or personal property.  The student and/or his legal guardian will be required to pay the cost of repair or replacement.

11. Violating the parish dress code.

12. Using forged notes or forged official forms.

13. Refusing to comply with any reasonable request of any teacher or any other school personnel while they are performing their official responsibilities.

14. Committing an act of defiance, either in language or action, on any school campus, school bus, or at school-sponsored event.

15. Leaving class and/or school campus without permission.

16. Violating any publicized rule approved by the superintendent that is unique to the individual school provided the school rule is not in conflict with the policies of the local school board and the laws of the State of Louisiana.

17. Using profane or obscene language.

18. According to Title IX, our school will not permit any student-to-student harassment.  Sexual harassment is defined as unwanted sexual words or actions and put-downs that make fun of a person for being a girl or a boy.  We are actively involved in alerting students to look at their own behavior, learn not to harass others, and what to do to stop others from harassing them.

In an effort to create a safe and nurturing learning environment for each child, students will be taught methods to deal with conflicts in ways that do not physically or emotionally hurt one another.  Much of the conflict between girls and boys in grades K-5 involves gender-based attitudes that include stereotyping, teasing and put downs.  We need parental help in creating this safe and nurturing environment by encouraging your child to deal with his/her feelings in positive, non-threatening ways.  Teaching all our children nonviolent conflict resolution is one step toward reducing the violence in today’s world.

19. Hats are not permitted in class.

20. Beepers are not allowed and will be taken up!

21. FALSE THREATS, ACCUSATIONS CONCERNING BOMBS OR GUNS, OR THREATS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST ANOTHER STUDENT OR TEACHER, EVEN IN JEST, WILL BE DELT WITH SEVERELY.

22. Tattling is telling to cause trouble.  Reporting is telling to stop trouble.

23. A complete Caddo Parish Discipline Policy is available in the school office and is provided to each family at the beginning of each school year.