The main purpose of public schools is to provide all students an equal opportunity for education.  We recognize students have rights granted by both the Constitution and laws of the United States and with all rights come corresponding responsibilities.

As in any community, we have established guidelines and rules to govern our behavior.  The foremost guidelines are respect and reasonableness.  Only if we respect the rights of others can we justifiably insist on our own rights.  The actions and decisions of "reasonable person" have been used historically to determine appropriate behavior where there are no specific laws. 

To maintain the orderly environment that makes learning possible, we expect all members of the school community to use good judgment and to be resepctful of others.

While we are confident that most of our students live up to our expectations for student behavior, we believe that there should be appropriate consequences when they do not.  The main purpose of these consequences is to serve as a deterrent, not as a punishment.

Our goal is that students will have appropriate behavior when clear rules are established.  The school hopes students will be helped toward this goal through partnership of home, school, and community.