Student Parent Handbook - Mount Mansfield Union High School

DISCIPLINE
Mt. Mansfield Union High School is committed to providing all students and staff
with a safe and supportive school environment.
PROCEDURES:
• A hearing with the student will be conducted to allow him/her an opportunity
to be heard with respect to the alleged offense.
• A student whose conduct seriously disrupts the academic atmosphere of the
school, endangers fellow students, teachers, or school officials, or who
damages school property will be removed from the situation immediately.
State or local police may be contacted.
• A suspended student may be removed from school during the school day, if
necessary, without first notifying a parent or guardian. Law enforcement
authorities may be contacted. Communication between the school and
parent/guardian will either be in person or by telephone followed up by a
written letter.
• At the time of the suspension, it is the responsibility of the administrator to
inform the student of the suspension guidelines and when the suspension
will begin and end.
• Administrators may not suspend a student for more than ten (10)
consecutive days or fifteen (15) total days in a school year without the
approval of the superintendent.
• Administrator in this procedure means principal, associate principal,
assistant principal, director of student activities, or administrative designee.
• The school resource officer will assist the administration whenever support
is needed.
• Depending on the severity of an incident, teachers, counselors, and
administrators will make every effort to notify parents of student misconduct.
Administrators, counselors, and teachers will work with parents toward
trying to improve student behavior.
DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION
Any physical contact is not an acceptable form of school behavior and is subject
to disciplinary action.
DRESS AND APPEARANCE
The following guidelines are provided to ensure students are appropriately
attired, promoting a more wholesome learning climate.
• The collar line in the front of a student’s shirt shall not be lower than 4 finger
widths from the collar bone.
• The width of straps on dresses, shirts, blouses, tops, etc. shall not be less
than two finger widths.
• The length of skirts shall not be less than the tip of fingers when the
student’s arms are extended straight down.
• The length of shorts shall not be less than the top of the fist when the
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