Following is the contents of handout designed to help teachers determine
where to refer a student.  Much of it contains redundancies, I know.
This is probably because we have teachers from many other places & it
was much easier to include all pertinent language ("slapping, punching,
kicking" or "chronic ditching, truancy, cutting classes") than to use
generalizations like "no touching" or "no bodily contact" or
"absenteeism" which could be as innocent as brushing someone in the hall
or being out for illness, yet still be grounds for a referral if
strictly interpreted.
I try to make it clear to the students that, even if something "isn't on
the list," if it interferes with the learning of others or causes other
students' attention to stray off task, then it constitutes a referral to
PRC.
I don't know if any of this is being changed for next year; this is what
we went by for '95-'96.
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                       PHOENIX PREPARATORY ACADEMY
                               PREMISE
1.  All students have the right to learn.
2.  Teachers have the right to teach.
3.  This cannot be done with disruptions.
                **Standards for sending students to PRC**
Student must have caused a disruption in classroom:
  Talking without permission
  Out of seat without permission
  Bothering others
  Foul language
  Disrespectful to staff member
  Disrespectful to other student/s
  Tardies
(This **does not** include:  having paper, pencil, homework or gum
chewing - these are infractions that should be handled in the
classroom.)
 **Immediate and serious acts of midconduct referred to administrators**
  Fighting or provoking fights
  Running in halls
  Jumping on another student
  Slapping, punching, kicking,
  Destruction of property
  Weapons, drugs, alcohol, tobacco possession
  Leaving campus without authorization
  Phyical contact of a sexual nature
  Vandalism (destroying or defacing school or another's property,
    grafitti)
  Arson
  Intimidation/extortion (using verbal or physical threats to get
    something of value from another,) harassment
  Loitering, trespassing, chronic ditching
  Truancy/cutting classes/habitual tardiness
  Forgery
  Gambling
  Profanity/inappropriate language
  Complicity (being an accomplice to misconduct or directing other),
    conspiracy
  Insubordination to teachers and authority, disrespectful or defiant
    conduct
  Gang activities ("mad-dogging", jumping in, threatening, isolating,
    clustering, intimidating, etc.)
         **Guidelines for classroom management for teachers**
1.  Use questioning technique for all classroom management (refer to
   _Discipline For Home and School_.
2.  Have a set of rules posted in the classroom.
3.  If needed, teacehr can discuss and get ideas from PRC teacher or
    other colleagues.
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Leona Payne
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