Discipline Policy

The respect and dignity of all persons is valued. Discipline helps all students as it contributes to a climate of learning, loving, and living. It helps each student as it provides an environment to guide students to become a self-disciplined person.

Each catechist in the classroom will clarify and set up goals for learning and establishing classroom guidelines. These guidelines will be posted and shared with the Coordinator/Director of Religious Education. Goal-setting and positive consequences encourage students to choose appropriate behavior. Normal discipline problems are to be handled by the classroom catechist.

If recurrent or serious problems arise, the catechist discusses the situation with the Coordinator/Director of Religious Education. The student will be dismissed from class, following this procedure:

1. The student will meet with the Coordinator/Director of Religious Education.

2. The student will fill out a discipline form. The student and the Coordinator/Director of Religious Education agree on an appropriate behavior.

3. The student and the Coordinator/Director of Religious Education will sign the discipline form.

The student returns to class. After class, the Coordinator/Director of Religious Education will

give the form to the catechist to sign and the student will take it home to obtain the parent/guardian signature.

4. The Coordinator/Director of Religious Education will notify the parent(s)/guardian of the disciplinary action.

5. Discipline forms will be filed in the Religious Education Office for the year. When a student has two forms on file, a conference will be held with the parent/guardian, the student, the catechist, and the Coordinator/Director of Religious Education.

6. A mutual agreement with the parties involved may mean two weeks of assigned work at home.

7. If, after returning to the classroom, the student is again dismissed from class, the student will not be allowed to attend class for the remainder of the year. An appropriate family religious education plan will be designed for use in the home and monitored by the Coordinator/Director of Religious Education.