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eceiving an acvaon signal at any me while riding any form of Harford County Public Schools provided transportaon. • During the course of the regular school day for students, cell phones shall not be used to transmit or receive calls and shall be turned off or rendered incapable of acvaon. Students enrolled in high schools only may possess Portable Communicaon Devices (PCD) on school grounds and buses during the regular school day provided: • the student keeps and maintains the PCD so it cannot be seen by others; • the student does not use or acvate the PCD in any fashion. Students enrolled in high schools only may use a PCD on school grounds (but not on buses) before the regular school day and aer the regular school day. Students who violate the above restricons shall be deemed to have created a disrupon to the instruconal environment and be subject to appropriate disciplinary acon. Nondiscriminatory Pracces The Board is commied to providing an environment that is safe and opmal for academic achievement and producve work acvity and free from any form of unlawful discriminaon. Any act of discriminaon, as defined herein, commied by a member of the school community is a violaon of this policy. Harford County Public Schools will invesgate all complaints of discriminaon and/or harassment and will take appropriate disciplinary or other acon against any member of the school community who is found to have commied any act of discriminaon as defined herein. Personal Property Personal property that is brought into the school by students is not covered under the insurance of Harford County Public Schools. Please contact your homeowner’s insurance company regarding any valuable items, such as musical instruments, for off-premise coverage. Students/ parents should evaluate the personal items that are brought to school. Also, students should take the me to permanently mark personal items so they are clearly idenfiable. Personal computers are not permied in schools. Student Accident Insurance Program Harford County Public Schools insurance does not cover student injuries due to accidents at school or during school-sponsored acvies such as physical educaon, aer school sports, and field trips. At the beginning of each school year, Harford County Public Schools provides parents with informaon on a voluntary accident insurance program. For students who are not covered by a family health or accident insurance plan or for families who wish to supplement their exisng coverage, parents should consider this student accident insurance which: • Is available to parents or guardians of all Harford County Public Schools students; • Provides low-cost accident insurance for students; and • Is available either on a full year, 24-hour basis, school me only, for football coverage and extended dental coverage. You may obtain informaon and enroll online at www.studennsurance-kk.com. If you have any quesons, contact the Risk Management Office at 410-588-5286. SPECIAL EDUCATION The Special Educaon program is designed to provide support to students with educaonal disabilies, so that they are successful in aaining the outcomes of the general curriculum. For students with intensive needs, alternave plans are developed to help them achieve life skills and goals that are defined through the Individual Educaon Program (IEP) process. Special Educaon services for students with disabilies are based on students’ IEPs and are designed to complement the general educaon curriculum. The alignment of IEP goals and benchmarks with the general educaon content standards supports the students’ parcipaon in the Maryland State Assessment program. The IEP guides the implementaon of modificaons and accommodaons ulized to enable the students to access the general educaon curriculum. The IEPs for students with more intensive needs support parcipaon in the Alternave Maryland State Assessment program. Services are available for all students ages birth through 21, as appropriate. There is a full connuum of services to meet the needs of students with educaonal disabilies in the least restricve environment. These services are provided in all the community schools. The needs of students with significant medical and educaonal needs may be met at John Archer School or in other educaonal placements. Infants and toddlers ages birth to three can access a variety of services to meet their individual needs through the Harford County Infants and Toddlers Program in conjuncon with the Early Childhood Programming opons. Harford County Public Schools operates regional programs for children with special needs. The children aend programs with instrucon provided by special educators to address communicaon and/ or other areas idenfied on the IEP. Harford County Public Schools provides inerant services including but not limited to: speech/ language therapy, occupaonal therapy, physical therapy, hearing and vision services, community-based instrucon, work experience, and assisve technology. All services are provided in accordance with the students’ IEPs to assist the student to benefit from specially designed instruconal programs. “Child Find”- a Search for Children in Need of Special Educaon Services “Child Find” is the name given to the Harford County Public Schools’ campaign to locate children who are in need of special educaon. This special project is designed to idenfy all children from birth through the age of 20 who have special educaon needs and to provide them with special educaon and related services. Children’s needs are idenfied through a variety of evaluaon procedures. If you know of any child from birth through age 20 who may be in need of special educaon services, call 410-638-4386 and ask for the “Child Find” contact. STUDENT DISCIPLINE I. Definions • In-school suspension means the exclusion within the school building of a student from the student’s regular educaon program for up to but not more than, ten school days for disciplinary reasons by the school principal. • Short-term suspension means the removal of a student from school for up to but not more than ten school days for disciplinary reasons by the principal. • Extended suspension means the temporary exclusion of a student from school for a specified period of me longer than 10 school 18
days by the superintendent of schools or his/her designee. Depending on the length of the suspension, the student will either be permied to make up work lost during the suspension period or, in the case of secondary students, be required to enroll in and sasfactorily complete the Harford County Public Schools’ Alternave Educaon Program. A suspension late in the school year, if of significant length, may be extended to the next school year. • Expulsion means, at a minimum, the removal of the student from the student’s regular school program for an indefinite period of me during which no educaon services are provided. Students who are expelled do have the right to seek reinstatement. • School-sponsored event includes all intraschool and interschool student acvies which are a part of the school’s overall program, and are under the supervision and control of school authories. These acvies include but are not limited to the following: field trips; athlec, music, and theatrical events; club meengs; intramurals, student exchange programs; conferences; dances; class trips; and all other acvies under the general supervision and control of school authories. • Verbal or physical threat means either verbal or physical conduct which places a school employee in reasonable fear of a physical aack as defined below whether or not such physical aack occurs. • Physical aack means an intenonal harmful or offensive physical touching of a school employee or touching, whether intenonal or unintenonal, of a school employee who is intervening in a fight or other disrupve acvity. • Dangerous weapons shall include, but are not limited to, the following: any firearm of any kind, whether loaded or unloaded, operable or inoperable, including any object which is a look-alike of a firearm, even though incapable of operaon; knives of any kind (including, but not limited to, a switchblade knife, a star knife, a dirk knife, a hunng knife); a straight razor; a spiked glove, spiked wristband, or spiked ring; metal knuckles; nunchaku; explosive devices; chemical mace; tear gas; or pepper spray. • Arson/fire means to set, aempt or aid to set fire to or burn a school building or other school property. II. General Procedures A. The Board of Educaon has established the following policies and procedures to govern (1) verbal or physical threat and/or physical aack on staff; (2) dangerous weapons; (3) arson/fire; (4) controlled dangerous substances, medicines, alcohol, and inhalants or other intoxicants; (5) wireless communicaon devices; (6) tobacco products; (7) sexual harassment; and (8) other maers of student behavior which will apply to all students in every school. These policies and procedures are in effect while students are on any property of the Harford County Public Schools or while they are parcipang in any school-sponsored event or acvity. B. In addion to these policies, the school principal has the right and authority to discipline students including suspension and referral to the superintendent of schools for further acon for other behaviors including but not limited to physical aack on a student, verbal or physical threat to a student, fighng, extoron, bullying, sexual assault, sexual acvity, false alarms/bomb threats, explosives, disrespect, insubordinaon, harassment, classroom disrupon, incing or parcipang in a disturbance, academic dishonesty/ cheang, the, trespassing, unauthorized sale or distribuon, vandalism/destrucon of property, and refusal to obey school rules. Students who commit aendance related violaons are subject to school-based disciplinary consequences, but may not receive out-ofschool suspension. C. The superintendent may deny aendance to any student who is currently expelled from another school system for a length of me equal to that expulsion. Also, informaon relang to the discipline of a student, including informaon on an expulsion of a student, will be forwarded to another school system upon request. III. Behavior Which Has Taken Place Off School Property A. Students may be disciplined, including suspension or expulsion, for behavior which has taken place off school property and/ or beyond the school day. If the behavior is determined by the principal to impact the educaonal environment of the school, the safety and/or welfare of other students and/or staff, and/or the maintenance of school order and discipline, the principal may suspend the student for up to 10 school days. If the nature and severity of the off-school property behavior warrants it, the principal may refer the student to the office of the superintendent of schools with the recommendaon for further disciplinary acon. If the superintendent concurs with the findings of the principal, a longterm suspension/expulsion may be imposed. B. Behavior which has taken place off school property and/or beyond the school day for which a student may be subject to school disciplinary procedures includes, but is not limited to: comming or aempng to commit murder, rape, assault with a deadly weapon, a serious assault, robbery, threat or extoron, arson, distribuon and/or sale of controlled dangerous substances or alcohol, other criminal acons, or other acons which could be subject to criminal prosecuon by law enforcement or juvenile authories whether or not prosecuon has or does take place. IV. Restuon If a student is determined to have violated these discipline policies or a school regulaon and in the course of that violaon damaged or destroyed school property or the property of another on school property, the principal shall require the student or the student’s parent to make restuon. The restuon may not exceed $2,500. The principal may assign the student to a school work project if the principal determines that this is an appropriate means to provide restuon for all or a part of the damage to property. V. Student Possession, Use, or Transference of Controlled Dangerous Substances, Medicines, and Alcohol The Board of Educaon of Harford County is commied to promong and providing a drug-free academic environment for all students and providing appropriate safeguards with respect to the administraon of prescripon medicaon and over-the-counter products, and believes that collaboraon with parents and the larger community is essenal to achieving a drug-free environment. School system efforts to deter the use of alcohol and other drugs by students will include a comprehensive program designed to inform students of the negave effects of alcohol and other drug use, to provide parents referral informaon on evaluaon and treatment services related to student use of alcohol and other drugs, as well as appropriate consequences for students who violate this policy. A. Definions • Controlled Dangerous Substance (CDS) - controlled dangerous substances include, but are not limited to, the substances listed in Title 5 of the Criminal Law Arcle. In addion, substances include medicine not registered with the school nurse, which are intended, implied, or are thought to produce the same or similar effects as substances listed in Title 5 are also regarded as controlled dangerous substances. • Medicine - any preparaon used in treang disease or illness. This includes prescripon and over-the-counter drugs. • Inhalant or Other Intoxicant - any compound or substance (such 19
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