CREDO Orientation

							CREDO RULES
 ORIENTATION
Presentation by
Mr. R. C. Mercer
 1. DRESS CODE
 2. Telecommunications
 Devices
 3. Attendance for
 Credit
 4. EXPULSION
              CREDO
CREDO is a Round Rock ISD alternative education
program designed to help “at-risk” student attain
their high school diploma. Our hours of operation
extend into the evening hours, thus offering
greater opportunities for student to meet the
demanding requirements necessary for
graduation. We believe that no child should be
left behind and, as a result, we focus our goals on
student who need extra help.
         MISSION
Our Mission is to provide the seamless
integration of required curriculum needed
by students to graduate from high school;
to provide a safe environment where
instruction is geared to produce life-long
learners and responsible citizens who are
able to successfully compete in a
challenging and changing world.
         VISION
Our vision is to have all students
graduate through engaged learning
that supports and reinforces the
educational efforts and goals of our
four high schools.
           EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
                   NONDISCRIMINATION
• The District shall provide equal opportunities to all
  individuals within its jurisdiction or geographic boundaries.
  Education Code 1.002(a)
• No officer or employee of the District shall, when acting or
  purporting to act in an official capacity, refuse to permit
  any student to participate in any school program because of
  the student’s race, religion, color, sex, or national origin.
  Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code 106.001
• The District may not deny services to any individual eligible
  to participate in its special education program, but it shall
  provide individuals with disabilities special educational
  services as authorized by law. Education Code 1.002(b)
 STUDENT RIGHTS AND
  RESPONSIBILITIES
• Each student is expected to respect
  the rights and privileges of other
  students, teachers, and District
  staff. All teachers, administrators,
  and other District personnel are
  expected to respect the rights and
  privileges of students. [See DH
  series]
        DRESS CODE
                PURPOSE
• The District’s dress code is
  established to teach grooming and
  hygiene, instills discipline, prevent
  disruption, avoid safety hazards, and
  teach respect for authority.
        DRESS CODE
           GENERAL GUIDELINES
• Students shall be dressed and groomed in
  a manner that is clean and neat and that
  will not be a health or safety hazard to
  themselves or others. The District
  prohibits any clothing or grooming that in
  the principal’s judgment may reasonably be
  expected to cause disruption of or
  interference with normal school
  operations.
          DRESS CODE
The District prohibits pictures, emblems, or writings
   on clothing that:
1. Are lewd, offensive, vulgar, or obscene.
2. Advertise or depict tobacco products, alcoholic
   beverages, drugs, or any other substance
   prohibited under FNCF (LEGAL).
The student and parent may determine the student’s
   personal dress and grooming standards, provided
   that they comply with the general guidelines set
   out above and with the student dress code
   outlined in the student handbook.
        VIOLATIONS
                 GROOMING
• If the principal determines that a
  student’s grooming violates the dress
  code, the student shall be given an
  opportunity to correct the problem at
  school. If not corrected, the student shall
  be assigned to in-school suspension for the
  remainder of the day or until the problem
  is corrected.
          VIOLATIONS
                        DRESS
• A student whose clothing violates the dress code
  shall be assigned to in-school suspension either
  for the remainder of the day or until a parent or
  designee brings an acceptable change of clothing
  to the school.
• Repeated dress code offenses may result in more
  serious disciplinary action. Appropriate discipline
  procedures shall be followed in all cases in
  accordance with the Student Code of Conduct.
  [See FO series]
 TELECOMMUNICATIONS
       DEVICES
• ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICES
• Electronic communication devices, including personal digital
  assistants, portable phones, Palm Pilots, camera phones or
  any other type of electronic or imaging devices shall be
  allowed during the school day, provided they are not
  activated, visible, or used during the school day.
• The beginning and ending time of the school day is defined
  for each school level in the appropriate student-parent
  handbook.
• EXCEPTIONS
• With teacher supervision, use of a PDA or Palm Pilot may be
  permitted.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
      DEVICES
     CONDITIONS FOR POSSESSION
• Students with electronic communication
  devices capable of emitting an audible
  sound shall be required to keep them
  turned off during the school day and at
  ceremonies or other school-sponsored or
  school-related activities on or off school
  property for which activation would be
  disruptive to the event or occasion.
   TELECOMMUNICATIONS
         DEVICES
                      PENALTIES
Violations shall be handled as follows:
1. The device shall be confiscated;
2. Notification shall be made to the student’s parent
   that the electronic communication device may be
   retrieved;
3. A fee of $15 shall be charged to the owner of the
   device or the student’s parent for its release; and
4. In the event the student is uncooperative and/or
   disrespectful, appropriate disciplinary action shall
   be assigned.
   ATTENDANCE FOR
       CREDIT
• The Board shall establish an
  attendance committee or as many
  committees as necessary for
  efficient implementation of
  Education Code 25.092. The
  Superintendent or designee shall
  make the specific appointments in
  accordance with legal requirements.
     ATTENDANCE FOR
         CREDIT
• When a student’s attendance drops below 90 percent of
  the days the class is offered, the student, parent, or
  representative may request award of credit by
  submitting a written petition to the appropriate
  attendance committee. The attendance committee shall
  review the student’s entire attendance record and the
  reasons for absences, and shall determine whether to
  award credit.
• Petitions for credit may be filed at any time the student
  receives notice, but in any event, no later than 30 days
  after the last day of classes. The attendance committee
  may review the records of all students whose attendance
  drops below 90 percent of the days the class is offered,
  whether or not a petition is filed.
    ATTENDANCE FOR
        CREDIT
• The Board has chosen to allow students who have
  lost credit because of unexcused absences to
  regain credit by fulfilling the requirements
  established by the attendance committee. The
  committee may set more stringent requirements
  for regaining credit lost because of unexcused
  absences than in other circumstances.
• A student is unexcused when absent from school
  with knowledge of the parent or guardian, but
  without permission from school officials
The attendance committee may use any of
the following options as ways to allow
students to regain credit lost for lack of
attendance:
1. Tutorials
2. Additional assignments
3. Research projects
4. Individual papers or oral reports
5. Library activity
6. Laboratory activity
7. Computer-assisted instruction
8. Peer tutoring
9. Assessment of classroom objectives
10. Daily or Saturday guided study
11. Alternative education assignment
12. Study hall
13. Community or campus service
14. Summer school
15. Examinations to earn credit in accordance with EEJA
     ATTENDANCE FOR
         CREDIT
• In all cases, the student must also earn a passing grade in
  order to receive credit.
• Alternative learning activities will be assigned by teachers,
  counselors, or administrators at the campus level.
  Documentation of these activities shall be the responsibility
  of the student and parent and shall be a major criterion in
  the determination of credit(s) awarded or denied, by the
  attendance committee.
• A parent or student may appeal the decision of the
  attendance committee in accordance with FNG (LOCAL)
  beginning at Level Three. The Board may consider the
  appeal upon written documentation or may choose to have
  the hearing by trial de novo.
STUDENT DISCIPLINE
                         EXPULSION
A student shall be expelled if the student, on school property or while
attending a school-sponsored or school-related activity on or off of school
property:
1. Uses, possesses, or exhibits a firearm, an illegal knife, a club, or a
prohibited weapon, as those terms are defined in the Penal Code, or any
knife prohibited by local policy [see FNCG];
2. Engages in conduct that contains the elements of the offense of
aggravated assault, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, arson,
murder, capital murder, criminal attempt to commit murder or capital
murder, indecency with a child, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery,
manslaughter, or criminally negligent homicide, as those offenses are
defined in the Penal Code;
3. Commits a drug- or alcohol-related offense described at Education Code
37.006(a)(2)(C) or (D), if that conduct is punishable as a felony. Education
Code 37.007(a)
    STUDENT DISCIPLINE
                          FIREARM
•   In accordance with the Gun-Free Schools Act, the District shall
    expel from the student’s regular program, for a period of one year,
    any student who is determined to have brought a firearm, as
    defined by federal law, to any District school. The Superintendent
    may modify the term of expulsion for a student or assess another
    comparable penalty that results in the student’s exclusion from
    the regular school program, on a case-by-case basis. The District
    or other local educational agency shall provide educational services
•   to an expelled student in a DAEP if the student is younger than
    ten years of age. The District or other local educational agency
    may provide educational services to an expelled student who is ten
    years of age or older in a DAEP. 20 U.S.C. 7151; Education Code
•   37.007(e) [See also GRA]
STUDENT DISCIPLINE
                 THREATS
• A student may be expelled if the student
  engages in conduct involving a public school
  that contains the elements of the offense
  of false alarm or report under Penal Code
  42.06, or terroristic threat under Penal
  Code 22.07.
STUDENT DISCIPLINE
     CONDUCT WITHIN 300 FEET OF SCHOOL
Subject to the mandatory expulsion requirement for
retaliation, a student may be expelled if the student, while
within 300 feet of school property, as measured from any
point on the school’s real property boundary line, engages in
the following conduct:
1. Any conduct for which expulsion would have been
mandatory under Education Code 37.007(a) [see
MANDATORY EXPULSION — SCHOOL RELATED, above];
or
2. Possession of a firearm, as defined by 18 U.S.C. sec. 921
[see FIREARM, above].
Education Code 37.007(b)
STUDENT DISCIPLINE
  RETALIATION AGAINST SCHOOL EMPLOYEE
  OR VOLUNTEER
• A student may be expelled if the student engages
  in an assault, under Penal Code 22.01(a)(1), on an
  employee or volunteer in retaliation for or as a
  result of the person’s employment or association
  with the District, without regard to whether the
  conduct occurs on or off school property or while
  attending a school-sponsored or school-related
  activity on or off school property. Education Code
  37.007(d)
STUDENT DISCIPLINE
      CONDUCT AGAINST ANOTHER STUDENT
• A student may be expelled if the student engages
  in conduct against another student that contains
  the elements of the offenses of aggravated
  assault, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault,
  arson, murder, capital murder, criminal attempt to
  commit capital murder, or aggravated robbery,
  without regard to whether the conduct occurs on
  or off of school property or while attending a
  school sponsored or school-related activity on or
  off of school property. Education Code 37.007(b)
STUDENT DISCIPLINE
      PERSISTENT MISBEHAVIOR IN DAEP
• A student who continues to engage in serious or
  persistent misbehavior that violates the District’s
  Student Code of Conduct while placed in a DAEP
  may be removed from class and expelled.
• If the student is expelled, the Board or its
  designee shall refer the student to the
  authorized officer of the juvenile court for
  appropriate proceedings under Family Code Title 3
  (Juvenile Justice Code). Education Code
  37.007(c), 37.010(b)
STUDENT DISCIPLINE
          STUDENT RIGHTS AND
             RESPONSIBILITIES
• Each student is expected to respect the
  rights and privileges of other students,
  teachers, and District staff. All teachers,
  administrators, and other District
  personnel are expected to respect the
  rights and privileges of students. [See DH
  series]
           Conclusion
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