Classroom
Policies -
Classroom Conduct:
1. Respect for your fellow students and for your teacher is required. Harassment of any kind will not be tolerated. “Harassment is any behavior which has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work or educational performance or of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work or educational environment.” (HHS Student and Parent Handbook)
2. Any student who
disrupts the class will be asked to see the teacher after class and will serve
a classroom detention. If the behavior
persists, the student may be sent to the
3. All students are expected to be in class on time. Anyone who enters the class after class has begun will receive a classroom detention after school. Students who are late three times in the same marking period will be given a disciplinary referral.
4. Food and drink other than water are not allowed in class. No gum or candy is allowed in class.
5. Students who must leave the room during class are required to sign out on the clipboard by the door, take a pass, and sign back in when they return.
6. Writing on the desks is a serious degradation of our learning environment and will be taken seriously. Doing so will result in a classroom detention in which the student will clean all of the desks in the room, and may also receive a disciplinary referral.
7. Other disciplinary issues will be dealt with as they arise, resulting in classroom detentions, disciplinary referrals, and/or parent conferences.
Tests:
1. It is expected that students take the test on the day it is given.
2. Test dates are established on the course outline, though they may be adjusted within a few days.
3. Absence from the days before a test will not excuse a student from taking the test on the test date, as review materials will be distributed in an earlier class.
4. If a student’s absence (or tardiness) on the test day is unexcused, that students will lose 10 points from their final score.
5. Students who miss the test day will be expected to take the test during the next day. Make up tests will be different. The essays, if distributed ahead, will be the same.
6. Students may raise their test scores by rewriting the essay from the test. The higher essay grade will be factored into the test score.
Homework:
1. Homework assignments will normally be checked the day they are due and graded out of five points. Points may be taken off for incompleteness.
2. Homeworks will have one point deducted for each day they are late. Very late homeworks may be given up to two points at the discretion of the teacher.
Essays:
1. Essays are due on the date given or the next day the student is in school. If the student misses the class period on the due date but is in school for part of the day, the student is expected to turn in the essay to Mr. Dickson or to the main office. Extensions on any assignment must be arranged in advance.
2. Late essays will lose a third of a grade each day they are late, up to two full grades.
3. Rewritten essays will receive the higher grade, though the penalty applied to the first essay for lateness will also be applied to rewrites.
Honor Code:
All students are expected to abide by the HHS Honor Code
(see the handbook). Any material
submitted by a student that is not the student’s own work in its entirety
(except for ideas and quotes whose source is cited) will be considered a
violation of the honor code. The student
will receive a zero for the assignment, and cannot make up the assignment. Disciplinary action will also be taken, and parents
may be contacted. Keep in mind, at most
colleges you can be expelled for committing plagiarism. Looking at another student’s paper on a test
constitutes a violation, whether or not an answer is copied.