2011-2012 WSFCS Parent-Student Handbook - Camel City Dispatch

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VII. Communication and Coordination with Law Enforcement Personnel A. The principal shall inform the appropriate �� FCSD) orally or in writing whenever a controlled substance is used, possessed, sold or distributed at school for at any school-related activity in violation of state law and school board policy. B. The report may be made orally or by mailing a copy of the discipline record form to the WSPD, KPD, or FCSD, as needed. �� be turned over to law enforcement personnel �� VII. Drug Testing Regulations and Procedures A. Types of testing 1. Voluntary random alcohol/drug testing. This is an expansion of the “It’s My Call Program” to include all middle and high schools. 2. Mandatory random alcohol/drug testing program. All high school students who participate �� and AR 6145, “School Sponsored Extra-Class Activities”, will be required to participate in random alcohol/drug testing, the “It’s Our Call” Program. If participation in an after school activity is required to earn credit or a grade in a course, the activity is not considered an extra-class activity. Participation in extraclass activities does not include attendance at school events such as athletic contests and drama productions. 3. Reasonable cause alcohol/drug testing program. In the event a school administrator determines after appropriate investigation that a student is at school or a school activity �� student will be offered the opportunity for an alcohol/drug test with parent knowledge and/or consent. B. Permission forms, sign ups, data collection and record keeping. 1. Student/parent permission required. Each student and each student’s custodial parent/ guardian (unless the student is 18 years old or emancipated) wishing to participate in extraclass activities, the “It’s Our Call” Program, and in the voluntary “It’s My Call” Program must give consent in writing for random alcohol and drug testing and for the release of the test results to: WS/FCS’s Drug Testing �� (MRO); the student and the student’s custodial parent/guardian; and the school principal or his/her designee on a form provided by WS/FCS. 2. Creation of databases. Each school shall create �� listing those students who have joined the “It’s My Call/It’s Our Call” programs. S 3. Sign-up schedule. Students will be encouraged to “sign-up” for both the “It’s My Call” and �� of the school year. The enrollment shall be for the entire time that a student is in high school rather than for one year. Students may sign-up at any time in the school year. 4. Process of random selection. It shall be the responsibility of the WS/FCS’s test administrator to maintain for each of the regular high schools and the two special high schools, �� who have given permission for testing under both the “It’s My Call” and “It’s Our Call” programs. Based on the WS/FCS budget, the test administrator will randomly select approximately 1 percent of the students subject to testing at each school 10 times per school year on a random schedule. The day of testing shall be varied so that testing does not become predictable. Because of their low enrollments, the students at Carter Vocational High School may be tested at Parkland High School. C. (Method of collection of urine samples) D. Substances tested for and types of tests. 1. Substances. a. Students may be tested for any of the following substances: alcohol, marijuana, amphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine, opiates and benzodiazepines. b. At the recommendation of the test administrator, students may be tested any other or additional substances. 2. (Screening test) �� 4. (Split sample) 5. (Reasonable cause testing for alcohol) 6. (Standards for positive test) 7. (Use of licensed laboratory only) �� F. Consequences of a positive test 1. It’s My Call Program. A student who tests positive shall be excluded from the “It’s My Call Program” unless the student with his/ her parent’s/guardian’s knowledge and consent agrees to participate in an assessment �� the receipt of the results and an intervention program recommended by Step One and shall be suspended from the “It’s My Call Program” for 365 days. 2. It’s Our Call Program. A student who tests positive shall be ineligible for participation in extracurricular activities, including athletics, for a period of 365 calendar days unless the student with his/her parent’s/guardian’s knowledge and consent agrees to participate in an assessment provided by Step One within �� an intervention program provided by Step One at WS/FCS expense. If the student needs a more intensive treatment program than can be provide by Step One, the student shall be 52 tudent-Parent Handbook referred to an appropriate service provider by Step One. In addition, a student and a student’s parent may prefer to enroll the student in an alternative intervention program. Programs not provided by Step One must be provided at parent’s expense. If the student agrees to the assessment and enrolls in the recommended intervention program, the student may continue his/her participation in extra-class activities. 3. Reasonable cause testing. A positive test shall be considered corroborative evidence in �� school or a school activity. If it is the student’s ��sessed by the Step One and to participate in the intervention program, the student shall be re-admitted to the regular school program subject to the student’s continued participation in the intervention program. If is it a second offense, the student is subject to expulsion. �� The test administrator and his/her agent and �� and test results. — June 2005 AR 5131 Guidelines for Student Discipline Changes in state law during the summer of 2011 require the Board of Education to make substantial changes to its discipline policies. The board is scheduled to update its policies in August 2011, which is after this book is printed. Copies of the new policies will be printed and given to all students once they are approved. In the meantime, please ask your principal or the school attorney if you have questions about ��
S tudent-Parent Handbook Index A Absences ..............................6, 29 Academically/intellectually gifted (AIG) ........................21 Administration .........................24 Advanced Placement (AP) ..6, 12 After-school care ......................15 Alcohol/drugs.... .............8, 48, 51 Alternative Learning Centers .....5 Alternative schools and programs ................................5 Alternative school assignment ...9 Ashley Elementary (magnet) .....4 Assignment of students ..............2 Athletic eligibility ................3, 39 Atkins High (magnet) ................4 Attendance ...........................6, 29 Authority of school personnel ....8 Autistic programs .....................20 B Beepers .....................................43 Before-school care ...................15 Board of Education ..................22 Blind/deaf programs .................20 Brunson Elementary (magnet) ...4 Buses ..................................18, 50 C Calendar ............... 18, back cover Career Center .............................6 Career and Technical courses .....6 Carter High .................................5 Cellular telephones ...................43 Cheating ...................................43 Child abuse, neglect, and dependency ..............................22 Children’s Center .......................5 Civility .................................8�� Closed campus .........................47 Closing times .............................5 Community Involvement Prog. ..6 ��..........................10 Contact list ..............................24 Copyright guidelines ................15 Counselors................................19 D Deaf/blindness ..........................20 Dependency, child ....................22 Dental screenings .....................18 Developmentally delayed .........20 Diabetes, students with ............21 Diggs-Latham Elementary (magnet) ................................4 Disabilities ...............................21 Discipline ............................8, 52 Discipline guidelines...... ......9, 52 Downtown School (magnet) ......4 Dress codes ................................8 Driver's license eligibility ........13 Drugs, illegal ............ 8, �� Drug testing ........................�� Dual Enrollment .......................13 Due process ........9, �� E Early College of Forsyth ............6 Email ........................................35 End-of-course tests ...................12 End-of-grade tests ....................12 English as a second language ...23 ESL Academy ............................5 Exceptional children ................20 Excuses for absences ..................6 Expulsion .............................9, 52 Extra-class activities, school sponsored .................37 Extra-class activities, non-school sponsored ............................41 F Family Life Education .............10 Fees ..........................................18 Field trips .................................15 Food .........................................14 Forsyth Middle College .............6 Fund-raising activities ..............18 G Gangs .......................................48 Gateway Prep Program ..............6 Gambling ..................................43 Grading ..............................11, 12 Graduation...............16-17, �� Grievances ............................9, 33 Guidelines for Student Discipline ........................9�� H Handicapped students ..........9, 21 Hanes Middle (magnet) ..............4 Harassment .................................7 Hearing-impaired .....................20 Helpline ......................................7 Hill Middle (magnet) .................4 Homebound teachers ..................7 Homeless children ......................3 Home-school coordinators .......18 Homework ................................13 I Individualized Educational Programs (IEPs) ..................20 Intellectual disabilities ............20 International Baccalaureate ..4, 12 Internet use .........................15, 35 Interrogating students .................9 K �� .............4,6 Kingswood School .....................5 Konnoak Elementary (magnet) ..4 L LEAP Academy ..........................6 Length of day .............................5 Lists of students .......................10 Lowrance Middle School ...........5 Lunch .......................................14 M Main Street Academy .................6 Magnet schools ..........................4 Makeup days ............................18 Makeup work .......................6, 29 Medicines ...........................18, 48 Mineral Springs Elementary (magnet) ................................4 Mineral Springs Middle (magnet) ................................4 Mission, Vision, Goals and Values...........inside front cover Moore Magnet School ................4 Multihandicapped ....................20 N No Child Left Behind ...........2, 14 Nurses ......................................19 O Objecting to books, materials ..10 Opening times ............................5 Orthopedically impaired ..........21 Other health impaired ..............21 P Paisley Middle (magnet) ............4 Parent conduct ......................8, 25 Parent-Teacher Association 15, 27 Parent involvement ............14, 26 Parent-teacher conferences ......14 Parkland High (magnet) .............4 Philo Middle (magnet) ...............4 Pregnant students .................7, 19 Preschool disabilities ..............20 Problems, how to resolve .....9, 33 Profanity ............................. �� Promotion ........................... �� Psychologists............................19 PSAT ........................................12 PTA.....................................15, 27 R Radios ......................................43 Reasonable force ..................8, 27 Records, access to ....................10 Reduced-price meals ................14 Rental of school facilities .........24 Report cards .............................11 Residence, changes of ................3 Returned checks .......................19 Reynolds High (magnet) ............4 Rights, responsibility and conduct ..................................................42 Right to privacy ........................10 Rules ..............................8, �� 53 S SAT...........................................12 School assistance teams ...........19 School Board ............................22 "Schools of Choice" plan ...........2 Searching (students, lockers, cars) ........................................9 Seclusion ..................................27 Serious emotional disabilities ..20 Sexual harassment ...............7, 45 Smoking ...................................43 Snow days ............ 18, back cover Social workers ..........................19 Special Children's School ..........5 Special education see exceptional children Special schools ...........................4 Special transfers .........................2 �� ....21 Speech/language impaired .......21 Spectator conduct .................8, 25 Student assignment ....................2 Student information (what is public?) ..............................10 Student records .........................10 Student transfers .........................2 Surveys .....................................11 Suspensions ....................9, �� T Technical courses .......................6 Testing ...............................11, 31 Theft .........................................42 Title I services ..........................22 Tobacco ....................................42 Transfers to other schools ..........2 Transportation .................... 2, 14 Traumatic brain injured ............21 Tutoring ....................................13 V Vandalism .................................42 Vision Screenings .....................18 Visiting the school ................8, 14 Visually impaired .....................20 Volunteer screening ..................27 W Weapons ...................................42 Weather closings ......................18 WinstonNet ..............................15 Winston-Salem Preparatory Academy ...............................4 Writing tests .......................11, 31 Z Zone assignment ........................2 Page numbers listed in bold denote policies.
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