Discipline Referral

School security is one of the world’s biggest issues. In California not many schools have security for their schools and that raises many questions for parents and teachers. All parents want their children to be safe and they don’t want anything bad to happen to them. They don’t know what might happen to them when they go to school. Some schools don’t have security systems because they don’t have government support to afford security for their school. Parents think twice before sending their kids to school with no security because of the crime that’s been happening lately. Department of Education should know that when kids are at school it’s their responsibility to protect kids from any crime. The main problem is the crime that is happening

Kenneth Batchelor, superintendent of Radnor Township School District, name one of the year’s safest school districts in America by Niche, states that we credit out strong relationships with local businesses, residents, law enforcement, and other emergency personnel for our ability to maintain safe learning environments (Rosales). Many other school systems as well say this is the best method for the best school safety. Working together outside the classroom also has its effect on inside the classroom and in school.

What the school will do to keep all children and young people safe and how it will respond to concerns, stating the procedure for this.

Purpose/Mission – The mission is to actively represent the community to focus support for every child’s success.

Their mission and goals are aimed towards every student that attends the school, not just the students in need of the school social worker. Rebekah stated the mission of this school is “committing to providing an enriching and equitable public education that fosters strong connections, high academic achievement, and a culture of caring for all learners in a safe environment”(2017). What is unique about this school is not only do they have a mission; they also have a vision of what they would like the school to become. Their vision is to be a caring, connected, committed and diverse community. They want every student to find joy and success in their social, emotional, and academic achievements to become a proud and influential member of their local and global community (Salem Public District 2016). The reason why this school has a vision is because Nathaniel Bowditch is currently on a three year grant to turn the school around. The goal of this turnaround is to ensure the overall success of the Nathaniel Bowditch School. This turnaround entails a reconfiguration of the school structure along with new staff and personal to run the school. This turn around is a working process with not only help from the staff but also the

Studies have also found a correlation between exclusionary discipline and (1) increased school avoidance, (2) decreased academic engagement, (3) an increased rate of dropouts, (4) increased behavioral problems, and (5) increased involvement with the juvenile justice system. School administrators have the right to want to develop a safe climate for their students and teachers and remove threats from their schools. However, serious threats from students are rare. Nearly 60 percent of the suspensions and expulsions administered in HPS in 2009-2010 were administered for school policy violations—a category that includes things like insubordination, profanity, sleeping in class, and truancy—not serious safety concerns like violence against others or weapons.

According to chalkbeat.org Carmen Farina wrote “To the school safety agents and school monitors, who know that relationships are at the core of what we do for our children. You set the tone for each student, parent, and guest who visits our schools.” The New York City Department of Education have a standing requirement that all schools conduct safety drills, including one between February 2,2018and March 15,2018 and principals will also be reviewing the individual safety protocol for their school building with school staff. Educators are discussing why they are conducting these drills and what their purpose is with the entire school community. Additionally, within the classrooms, educators are engaging in challenging questions and conversations at school and at home, and to always remind the children that they are safe in our schools and that they will do everything to keep it that

academic success and research by Astor and others has consistently found key factors that can make schools safer: cultivate social and emotional health, connect to community resources and respond, particularly, to troubled students.” If schools had better communication and relationships,

The school support positive behaviors with discipline. They have a zero tolerance policy to physical contact, despite some student with behavioral disorders which causes occasional distraction

Most of us have improved immensely since we started at Memphis. To start, most schools would not put forth as much effort in making sure that their students are safe at all times. How many schools have you seen that keep their staff members out in the neighborhood well after dismissal? The staff members at Memphis Street Academy are all about safety. Safety is one of our top priorities.

Safe schools are developed through planning with specific goals in mind. This process begins with the implementation of a School Safety Committee to develop a violence prevention program that is comprehensive in nature. This program would implement prevention activities and develop a comprehensive plan to maintain a school atmosphere conducive for learning. The plan would have strategies for the building, classroom and individual student level. The stakeholders would include students, teachers, counselors, administrators, parents, law enforcement, civic leaders, church and business leaders.

During the past decade, school safety has been at the forefront of many school districts safety polices and plans. With recent high profile school shootings, the question school districts continue to ask is how do we keep our schools safe? Administrators face heavy scrutiny when weighing approaches to school safety and student discipline. Likewise, school employees have the right to work in safe environments devoid of life-threatening behaviors (Fenning and Bohanon, 2006; Skiba and Rausch, 2006). America’s founding fathers understood the importance of a public school education. They believed educating its citizens would allow them the opportunity to learn new skills while becoming successful and productive people in society. However, our founding fathers did not predict the severe behavior changes our schools face in educating disruptive and dangerous students. America’s school districts are charged with providing solutions for disruptive and dangerous students (Fenning and Bohanon, 2006; Skiba and Rausch, 2006). School officials must address these issues with research-based interventions and collaborative resources that provide a safe learning environment for all stakeholders (Elliott and Mihalic, 2004; Schoenwald and Hoagwood, 2001). Boards of education continue to support school efforts to rethink best practices for disciplinary alternative middle schools (DAMS). Many school districts focus on research-based interventions and resources that manage aggression and

School violence has become of the most pressing educational problems in the United States. Gang violence and high profile shootings across the nation cause concern within schools. Communities struggle to understand why these events take place and how they can be prevented. The overwhelming response to solve the issue of violence in schools is the increasing societal pressure to execute zero tolerance. Zero tolerance is driven by the educational philosophy, policies, and practices of school communities. Stakeholders expect schools to be a safe place for staff and for students. Stakeholders assume that a positive classroom environment, safe students, and school enjoyment are conditions necessary to create a positive climate where learning takes place. This assumption can be backed with research. A calm classroom environment, teachers’ management of disruptive behavior, and students’ view of school safety are factors that have been found to directly correlate with student achievement in the classroom (Ma & Willms, 2004). Safety and a feeling of not being threatened during school hours have been found to be important to students’ achievement. Failure to remove a disruptive or an unruly student from school has been found to have a negative impact on achievement and creates a great risk to school staff and students (Garbarino et al., 1992). Teachers cannot teach and students cannot learn in an

The vision of the school is to work collaboratively with parents to provide a safe learning environment that fosters academic achievement through intellectual, social, emotional growth and development to reach the highest potential for each student.

Each student would be evaluated based on their record, where and when the incident occurred, and what the circumstances were surrounding the incident. If a student was relatively good kid with no past disciplinary action history, the school management was much more likely to have a punishment that actually taught him or her something. But times changed and education environment in public schools also changed considerably in recent years. Zero tolerance policies are concerning issues that are thought to be extremely dangerous in today’s society. The three main focuses of these policies are incidences of violence, illegal drugs, and alcohol. Zero tolerance treats children as if they were adults and takes away the ‘innocence of a child’ philosophy. This strategy could be extremely safe to the lives of the good students and everything happens by treating all offenses dealing with the aforementioned issues as well as all students equally whether the student has had a flawless record or not.