Jr./Sr. High School Handbook

JR. / SR. HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENT – PARENT/HANDBOOK
GRANBY SCHOOL DISTRICT--2005-2006

MISSION STATEMENT, VISION, AND GOALS Granby Public Schools:/Mission STATEMENT

The primary mission of the Granby Public Schools is to foster the establishment of a society of learners who view education as an important process engaged in by teachers and students alike.

This process offers the opportunity for teacher renewal and provides a solid foundation in reading, speaking, writing, the arts, computation, and critical and creative thinking for all children.

Instruction appropriate to the social, physical, and emotional development of each child will be provided.

The curriculum will be delivered in an environment that stresses open communication and a spirit of community while emphasizing educational excellence and personal growth.

At the time of graduation, students will be reared for further education or productive employment and will understand the elements of responsible citizenship.

VISION STATEMENT

The Granby School System envisions itself as a group of dedicated professionals committed to providing a balanced program of studies that will prepare every student to meet established standards for self expression, analysis, problem solving, use of technology, and general knowledge.

"Granby Jr/Sr High School MISSION STATEMENT Granby Jr./Sr. High School fosters academic achievement, personal responsibility, and resect, in order to develop conscientious and productive members of society.  

Student Learning Expectations/b Academic 12.0t"Students will be able to: Read actively
-           practice listening skills
-           Communicate clearly in writing
-           Communicate clearly in speech
-           Demonstrate effective research skills
-           Use strategies in problem solving

Students will be able to: Demonstrate resect for diversity
-           Identify the responsibilities and importance of participating as citizens in school and global society
-           Show awareness of local, national, and global events

Students will be able to: Demonstrate responsible, cooperative and courteous behavior
-           Show resect and responsibility for all property
-           Create an environment where concern and empathy for others is encouraged

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT

Granby Jr/Sr High School is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc., a non-governmental, nationally recognized organization whose affiliated institutions include elementary schools through collegiate institutions offering post-graduate instruction.  The school has completed the self study phase of the re-accreditation process and will be evaluated the week of September 18, 2005.

Accreditation of an institution by the New England Association indicates that it meets or exceeds criteria for the assessment of institutional quality periodically applied through a peer group review process.  An accredited school or college is one which has available the necessary resources to achieve its stated purposes through appropriate educational programs, is substantially doing so, and gives reasonable evidence that it will continue to do so in the foreseeable future.  Institutional integrity is also addressed through accreditation.

Accreditation by the New England Association is not partial but applies to the institution as a whole.   As such, it is not a guarantee of the quality of every course or program offered, or the competence of individual graduates.   Rather, it provides reasonable assurance about the quality of opportunities available to students who attend the institution.

Inquiries regarding the status of an institution’s accreditation by the New England Association should be directed to the administrative staff of the school or college.   Individuals may also contact the association.

NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
209 BURLINGTON ROAD
BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS 01730
(617) 271-0022

HANDBOOK ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Each parent, guardian, or the student him/herself (if over 18 years of age) must sign the verification form included, indicating that s/he has received and read a coy of the handbook.  If the signed verification form is not received by September 15th, then the school district will nonetheless resume that the parent, guardian or student him/herself (if over 18 years of age) has received and read the handbook.

PARENTAL/STUDENT QUESTIONS/CONCERNS 

Many times conflicts at school arise out of some form of miscommunication.  If students and/or parents/guardians have any concerns regarding classes, grades, a teacher, discipline, school procedures or any aspect of the school environment, lease follow the procedure outlined below:

1. See the Teacher--the student and/or his parents should make an appointment and first discuss the matter with the teacher.
2. See the Department Chairperson--If the concern, complaint is not resolved, see the Department Chairperson if appropriate.
3. See the Guidance Counselor--The counselor serves in many capacities to help students, parents and teachers to clarify issues and resolve conflicts or concerns.
4. See the principal or Vice-principal--If the situation has not been resolved to your satisfaction by the discussion with the teacher and/or counselor make an appointment with the principal or Vice-principal.
5. See the Superintendent--If you still feel the need for further discussion about the problem, an appointment can be scheduled with the Superintendent of Schools.

This will help to expedite the procedure in that the individual(s) closest to the situation are those most likely to help with the resolution.  A child's Guidance Counselor, acting as the student's advocate, can help with guiding a parent through the process.

ACADEMICS

Mid-term Progress Reports

Mid-term Progress reports are given to students at the halfway point of each quarter. While rogress Reorts are designed to udate arents as to student achievement and rogress, there can be no substitute for first-hand arent/teacher communication. arents are encouraged to make aointments with teachers and/or guidance counselors in order to discuss ways to enhance student effort, articiation, and achievement.

Reort Card

Reort cards are issued four times annually (at the conclusion of each 45 day marking eriod) to notify arents/guardians of the academic rogress of their sons/daughters.  Under normal circumstances, reort cards will be mailed home 5 - 10 days after grades close for any given quarter.  /h2  

REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION

Students must accumulate 140 credits within the following guidelines:

English 3"                          25 credits
Mathematics                  20 credits
Science                        20 credits
Social Studies                20 credits
Physical Education        10 credits
Technology                     5 credits
Health & Wellness         5 credits
Fine & ractical Arts      2.5 credits
Miscellaneous                32.5 credits

MCAS-- achieve a assing score in Language Arts and Mathematics  

Secific courses in each deartment must be taken and assed:  

·  English -- Ancient & Classical Literature, Literature by Genre, American Literature, British Literature, Seech, Writing

·  Mathematics -- Algebra I

·  Science-- hysical Science I, II, Biology

·  Social Studies -- World History I, World History II, U.S. History, Government/Economics

·  Health & Wellness – Health s

A qualified student at Granby Jr./Sr. High School may enroll as a student in Massachusetts ublic institutions of higher education.  A student may earn both secondary school and college credits.  Students may enroll either full time or for individual courses in the Dual Enrollment rogram as long as each of the following conditions are met:

1. A student is in his/her junior or senior year of high school, must have a GA of 3.0 or higher and be a Massachusetts resident.

2. Students articiating in dual enrollment may earn credit(s) that meet requirements for high school graduation and higher education matriculation.

3. THIS CANNOT BE TAKEN IN LIEU OF A YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL. yes"  This rogram is designed to augment the high school rogram.   If interested, see guidance for more information.

4. Students must demonstrate the ability to benefit from college-level coursework.

5. All students will be required to have written aroval from their arents/guardians, or other resonsible adult in order to be acceted into a dual enrollment rogram.

6. All students enrolled on a dual enrollment basis are resonsible for their own transortation, textbooks, instructional materials, and tuition costs and fees.

Foreign Exchange Students:

Before a foreign exchange student may receive credit and graduate from Granby High School, he/she must attend two (2) semesters, show roficiency in the English language and must meet all course requirements.  His/her record will not be calculated for rank in class.

Honor Roll:        

Outstanding scholastic achievement is recognized at the end of each marking eriod by the issuance of an Honor Roll listing of those students who have maintained the aroriate grades based on the following general guidelines:

Maximum Honors                        All normal" /bgrades 90 or aboveHigh Honors                               All grades 85 or aboveHonors List                                 All grades 80 or above

Weight differential:

Advance lacement Courses      Add 4 ointsHonors Level Courses                  Add 3 oints

pass-fail courses will be disregarded if “ass” is earned, but counted as an “F” if a “fail” grade is earned.  The Honor Roll will be comuted after each marking eriod and osted within the school and released to the local newsaers.

In order to be eligible for honor roll, a student must take 75% of their classes with a numerical grade.

Princial’s List

The rincial’s List was created to foster and recognize academic excellence at Granby Jr.-Sr. High School. It honors students who have achieved maximum and/or high honors for any three terms within a given academic year.  Students named to the rincial’s List will be recognized during the fall of the following year.  In addition, seniors will be recognized at Awards Night.

Grading And Grade oint Average (GA):

Grades will be recorded numerically.  Rank in class is based on a weighted GA. Honors courses receive an additional .33 and A courses an additional .67 weight.

LETTER             NUMERICAL      GAGRADE              GRADE              SCALE

A+                     (97-100)             4.33

A                      (93-96)               4.00A-                     (90-92)              3.67  B+                     (87-89)              3.33B                      (83-86)              3.0B-                     (80-82)              2.67C+                    (77-79)              2.33C                      (73-76)              2.0C-                      (70-72)                           1.67D+                     (67-69)                           1.33D                      (63-66)                           1.00D-                      (60-62)                           0.67F                      (0-59)                 0.00

Academic Standing By Classes

Starts with the class of 2009

Students will be considered members in good standing at each class level in Setember of the current year if they have accumulated the following credits: To grade 12:                   100 credits for romotion

To grade 11:                   70 credits for romotion

To grade 10:                   35 credits for romotion

Students who have not accumulated the necessary credits will not be romoted to the next grade.  Each June, the cases of students who have not attained the minimum credits are reviewed by the counselors, and the students are notified of academic deficiencies.  If the academic deficiencies are made u rior to the first day of school in August/Setember, the students will be romoted to the next grade. yes"  Students may also be romoted in January if sufficient credits have been attained.

Summer School olicy

In order for a student to receive credit for a summer school course, yes"  uALL of the following criteria must be met:

·          The student failed the course at Granby Jr.-Sr. High School

·          The failing grade is no lower than 50% unless waived by administration

·          The credit was not lost as a result of the “attendance olicy”

·          In addition, a student may not earn more than 10 summer school credits in one subject area or more than a total of 15 summer school credits toward his/her diloma. Excetions to this rule can be requested through the Administration.

Homework Requests:;

A student must be out of school for 3 days before the school is required to honor a homework request.  These requests must be received by the guidance office 24 hours in advance of the time they will be icked u.   Anything rior to the third day, the student is encouraged to contact a classmate for all assignments.

Extra Hel:;

When a student is having difficulty in a class or falls behind due to absence, he/she should always seek extra hel.  The student should meet with the teacher to arrange for a mutually convenient time for the hel, which might be before or after school. sTeachers will decide and ost their extra-hel schedule annually.

Make-U Work;

Make-u work is the resonsibility of the student. If a student misses a class, but is in school for art of the day, it is his/her resonsibility to get all class assignments and to be reared for the next day. If a student is absent, dismissed or late to school on a day when a test has been given, the student should exect to make u the test on the next school day (unless other arrangements are made with the teacher).

Members of the staff are obliged to ermit students to make u work missed for a legitimate reason.  As a general rule, missed work should be made u within a week’s time after the student returns to school.  A student will not be allowed to make u work that was missed due to any unexcused absence.;

ACADEMIC ATTENDANCE OLICY

The imortance of regular class attendance cannot be overemhasized.  What haens in the classroom is essential to the educational rocess.  Time lost from the class can never be regained. Regular attendance enhances learning by exosing students to a greater amount of academic content, instruction, and time to aly new concets and skills.   It allows for teacher exlanation and the interaction between students and between teacher and student.  Since the classroom is the rimary area of learning, it is aarent that attendance is a valid reasonable requirement. Teachers cannot teach students who are not resent.  Therefore, students are exected to make a commitment to regular class attendance, and arents are strongly urged to assist the school by suorting its attendance olicy.

Students in grades 9-12 who accumulate more than 10 absences in a semester course or 5 absences in a quarter course will not receive credit for classes attended or grades earned.

In the event of a loss of credit, the course and grade will be entered on the transcrit with a notation of zero for credits earned.  The course will not be comuted in the GA. If it is a required course for graduation, the course will have to be taken again.

What is not included as absences:b smso-bidi--weight: normal" Co-curricular activities such as field tris, club conferences, athletic cometitions, etc., will not be considered as an absence. Basically any situation where the school has requested the student to be somewhere other than class.

What is included as absences:

Any other reason for absence from class, such as susension, class cuts, normal illness, family vacations, etc. will be counted as an absence. A student missing more than 50% of a class eriod will be considered absent for that class.

Waiver

In general, waivers will be granted by the rincial only for medically documented cases of chronic or long-term illnesses, religious observance, or family emergencies or hardshi. In the event the student exceeds the allowed number of absences in a course and loss of credit occurs, the student and arents will have the oortunity for a hearing with an Attendance Review Committee (which will include at least the rincial, and/or the Vice-rincial, and/or the Guidance Counselor.) The committee will listen to the extenuating circumstances and make a decision regarding the awarding or loss of credit.   If the oortunity to meet with the committee is waived, the student will lose credit.

Notification

arents and students are reminded that the number of school absences is reorted on the mid-term rogress reort and the end of the quarter Reort Card. Every effort will be made to notify arents by letter when absences begin to be excessive. 

GENERAL ROCEDURES

SCHOOL DAY The school day is from 7:30 a.m. to 1:58 .m. normal" /b Students are exected to be in their homeroom, or first eriod class, when the final bell rings. Students arriving tardy to this class must reort to the Main Office.

Students must leave the school grounds at the end of classes unless articiating in formal after school activities! Students should note that school sonsored events are considered as art of the school day, and as such the same rights, resonsibilities, rules, and channels of authority that have been established in this document are in effect.

ABSENCE ROCEDURE On the day a student is absent, arents are exected to ucall the school before 9:00 a.m. (467-2162).  lease state the reason and estimated length of absence.

Excused absences

From time to time, absence from school is unavoidable and legitimate.   The following are the only accetable excuses for absences:

1.    ersonal illness and/or hositalization (after 3 consecutive days, a doctor's   note and/or school nurse examination may be required);

2.       serious illness or death in the family;

3. yes"  a religious obligation;

4.    medical aointments that cannot be made at a time other than during school hourdocumentation is required

5.    college or school visitations with advance notice to the rincial/Assistant rincial and teachers;

6. aroved curricular, and co-curricular school activities;

7.   court aearance; documentation is required

8.    other extenuating circumstances which must be aroved in advance by the rincial and/or Vice-rincial.

Any other reason for absence is unexcused. Students with an unexcused absence will receive zero for any classes missed. Classwork, quizzes, tests, etc. for that day cannot be made up.

If a student is absent from school, that student is not allowed to attend any co-curricular, sorts, or social school activities after school or that evening (unless waived by the Administration). yes"  A student must be in school on the day of the event (or the day before if the event is scheduled for a Saturday) in order to articiate or attend that school activity/event.

Students listed as absent are not allowed to enter the building that school day. Students found to be on school grounds while on the absent list will be considered to be tresassing.

planned absences

By June the School Committee establishes the secific dates for school to be in session for the following academic year in order to allow arents and students adequate time to schedule tris and family vacations to coincide with periods in which school is not in session. By doing so, the Committee recognizes the imortance of students' consistent and romt attendance to school.  

Under unique or unusual circumstances, a student may request to leave school rior to the comletion of the marking eriod or for a eriod of time during the marking eriod for reasons not covered under accetable reasons for school absence.   When a arent or guardian decides to take a student out of school under such circumstances, the student should obtain a "lanned Absence Form" from the Guidance Office at least ONE WEEK rior to the lanned absence.  The following stes must be followed:

1.   Parent signs form with reason stated for absence.

2.  Vice-Princial acknowledges and signs request. Aroval does not erase the absencethey are still art of the student's total absences under the attendance olicy and could result in loss of credit.

3.   Student meets with individual teacher for assignments and comments.  

4.   Student leaves a comleted coy with the Vice-rincial.

Lateness to School

Promtness to school and to class is a high riority of Granby Jr/Sr High School. We believe this reflects the minimal exectations, which our community, business, organizations, and industries exect.

ALL students who arrive at school after 7:30 a.m. must reort to the office and sign in. Each student who is tardy must resent a note to the secretary or a arent must call within 24 hours.  The only reasons acceted for an excused late are the same as those for being absent. (see excused absences on the revious age)  All others will receive consequences according to the code of disciline.

Dismissals

All students, REGARDLESS OF AGE, must follow this dismissal olicy.   A written arental excuse stating the reason for dismissal must be brought to the Main Office BEFORE 7:50 a.m. if dismissal is desired during the school day.  The following are the rocedures that are to be taken:

1.  The note must include the student's full name, time of dismissal, and reason    for dismissal.

2.   A student’s name will aear on the attendance sheet noting the time of dismissal.3.    All students being dismissed must sign out in the office and must check back into the Main Office if returning to school.

4.   Once dismissed, a student must leave school grounds and not return unless they are signing back in.

The administration reserves the right to question the reason for a student being dismissed during the normal school day.  arents should avoid making aointments for their children with doctors, dentists, etc., between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 2:00 .m.

In the event of an emergency, a student may be excused from school by a telehone call from the arent, or a arent may come to the Main Office and directly request dismissal.   In the case of an accident or illness the school nurse will dismiss the student from school. yes"  Parent/guardian will be informed by hone.  If the nurse is not available, the student must reort to the Main Office so his/her arents may be called. In either case,

THE STUDENT MUST ALWAYS CHECK OUT AT THE MAIN OFFICE BEFORE LEAVING THE BUILDING. 

Students who do not have senior rivileges will not be allowed to leave school during lunch./b s

A student who is dismissed by the school nurse must be icked u by a arent or a resonsible erson designated by the arent when notified.  A student may walk home at the discretion of the nurse, and with a arent's ermission.

No school announcements

In case of inclement weather or other emergencies, announcements of school closings, delays, or early release will be made between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. on WHYN AM and FM, and WHM AM, WMAS AM, and TV 22 and 40.

STUDENT SERVICES  HEALTH SERVICES  

Emergency Information:   At the beginning of each school year, "Student rofile Sheets" are distributed to each student.  It is extremely imortant that the information be comlete and accurate and uket u-to-date.  There must be a way of reaching arents/guardians uromtly should illness or accident occur.  We need the name of an alternate erson to be contacted if arents/guardians cannot be reached.  lease use a local alternate and be sure that the erson you name is willing and able to serve in this caacity.  

Health Clinic/Medication Policy

Any student who becomes ill or has an accident while on school roerty should request teacher ermission (if at all ossible) and reort immediately to the clinic to be examined by the school nurse.  In cases of accidents, you should follow this rocedure regardless of how slight you feel the injury may be.  The clinic is staffed by a registered nurse, Mrs. Dowling.  Under no circumstances is a student to go to the lavatory or other area instead of the clinic. STUDENTS ARE NOT TO LEAVE THE BUILDING FOR REASONS OF SICKNESS OR INJURY UNLESS EXCUSED BY THE NURSE OR THE MAIN OFFICE. Such a student will be treated as if he/she has “cut” class or is in an unauthorized area.

Ideally, medication should be given at home.   However, in the event medication needs to be given during school hours, the following olicy alies:

Medication when given must be given with a doctor’s order.   Aroriate forms are available in the office, guidance or nurse’s station.

The nurse administering the medication must have a signed ermission from the arent.

All medication must be delivered by a resonsible adult to the school in an original harmacy container labeled as to name and strength of medication, dosage and time to be administered, name of student and rescribing hysician.

The medication will be ket in a locked area (or refrigerator if necessary).

The medication will be administered by the school nurse (if available) or her designee.

Physical Examinations  The school nurse conducts screening rograms mandated by the State of Massachusetts for students in the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth grades. The urose of these examinations is to evaluate and chronicle each student’s growth and develoment as indicated by their height, weight, vision and hearing. ostural screening is also done at this time.   All transfer students are required to rovide the school uon transfer into Granby Jr/Sr HS , a record of hysical examination comleted within one year of the date of entrance.

An athletic hysical is required each school year for each athlete.   The school hysician does sorts hysicals three times a year. No student will be able to articiate without a hysical. The tenth grade hysical can be used in lace of the athletic hysical as long as this dual urose is stated by the hysician.

MEDICAL EXCUSE POLICY A written statement, signed by a arent or guardian, valid for no more than a week, must be resented to the hysical education teacher whenever a student wishes to be excused from hysical activity. It is the student’s resonsibility to arrange for class make u when absent or excused in accordance with deartment olicy.

a.   For a eriod longer than 1 week, a statement, signed by a hysician, roviding a brief diagnosis and length of time to be excused is required.

b. Students excused for extendedb /beriods of time will be assigned an alternative and rocessed accordingly through the guidance office.

c.   Students with ermanent hysical disabilities will be excused from hysical education classes.  A statement from the hysician must be on file in the nurse’s office and must be renewed each year.

IMMUNIZATIONS  To rotect the health of all students, Massachusetts immunization requirements must be met for enrollment in school. Students lacking roof of such immunizations from the family hysician or ublic health clinic will be rohibited from enrolling in school, or continued attendance until such roof has been rovided. The law does rovide for exemtions for documented medical and religious reasons.b  The Granby ublic Schools allows students with asthma or other resiratory diseases to ossess and administer rescrition inhalers. It will be required that the students have a hysician's order in the health clinic, and that the student notify the nurse if medication was needed and used during the school day.

GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING SERVICES

Guidance Counselor

The counselor’s role is to hel the student understand herself/himself in relation to the world in which she/he lives and to know herself/himself, her/his strengths and weaknesses, and to develo an ability to coe with and solve roblems. Counselors are directly resonsible for academic advisement as well as college and career lanning and they coordinate a variety of other services that are available to students, such as school adjustment counseling, tutoring, and testing rograms.  In addition, the counselors serve as a liaison between the student, teacher, and arent.   Every effort is made to encourage each student to become increasingly resonsible for his/her academic and social well-being.   Students who wish to see their counselor should come into the Guidance Office before school and make an aointment through the guidance secretary.

School Psychologist

The School sychologist rovides crisis intervention and short-term counseling services to referred students or students who refer themselves.  The school sychologist makes referrals to local agencies for students in need of ongoing theray.  Consultation is rovided to arents and teachers regarding student emotional and behavioral needs. sychological evaluations are conducted on students referred for Secial Education services.

Student Assistance Counselor

The Student Assistance Counselor’s goal is to rovide education, revention, early identification, intervention, referral and suort services for students exhibiting risk behaviors that are interfering with their education.   This can be accomlished by services such as: educational suort grous, agency referrals, mediation, mentoring, character education and research-based revention curriculum. Grou toics may include, but are not limited to: study skills, social skills, changing families, grief and loss, homework, anger management, careers, refusal skills, ersonal safety curriculum, and abstinence from alcohol and other drugs.

School Resource Officer

The school resource officer acts as a bridge between the Granby olice Deartment and the student body of Granby Jr/Sr High School.  He/she conducts criminal investigations and is resonsible for the security of the school.  The resource officer also assists the school with non-criminal investigations when requested by the school, and is a resource for the student body.

College Fair Policy:

Students wishing to articiate in a College Fair must follow this rocedure:

Only grade 10, 11, and 12 students may articiate in College Fair field tris. 

Students must obtain a College ermission Sli from the Guidance Office.  All ermission slis must be returned, signed by a arent, to the Guidance Office ONE WEEK before the fair.

Students are resonsible for their own transortation.

College Visitations

Arrangements, in advance, will be made with the student’s counselor.   A signed confirmation of the visit by the college admissions office is required uon return.

Student Records

A. General rovisions

The student record contains all information concerning a student that is ket by the school. Each student and Parent/guardian with hysical custody has the right to see his/her own student records. Coies of any information in the records may be obtained uon request.

The student’s record is available to school contracted ersonnel who work directly with the student. This includes administrators, teachers, counselors, administrative office, staff and clerical ersonnel. They do not need ermission to see student records.

Directory information may be disclosed for any urose in the discretion of the school system, without the consent of a arent of a student or an eligible student. arents of students and eligible students have the right, however, to refuse to ermit the designation of any or all of the above information as directory information. In that case, this information will not be disclosed excet with the consent of a arent or student, or as otherwise allowed by FERA and 603 CMR 23.00 et seq.  In addition, subject to the right of arents of individual students to ot out, Section 9528 of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, requires ublic schools to afford military recruiters access to the names, addresses, and telehone numbers of secondary school students.

Any arent or student refusing to have any or all of the designated directory information disclosed must file written notification to this effect with the rincial on or before the 15th day of each Setember.

Homework, class work, quizzes, and classroom test do not constitute “student records” under the Massachusetts student records law and regulations. Thus they can be disclosed to olice without student or arent consent.

parents and students should review the comlete student records law in the aendix.

Transcrits

A transcrit consists of a record of the courses you have taken, your final average and the credits you have received.  Official transcrits are art of high school credentials that you must suly to colleges to which you are alying. 

Official transcrits will be sent through the mail to a school or college, secial rogram, uon your request.  lease allow a week for rocessing.

All requests for transcrits should be addressed to the Guidance Office. A $2.00 charge will be required for all transcrits rovided to ost graduates.

Secial Education

Request for evaluation: A student between the ages of 16-21 who has not yet comleted requirements for a high school diloma, and in accordance with

Sections 207 and 317 of Chater 766 has the right to request for himself/herself an evaluation to determine if he/she is a student with secial educational needs.

Students or arents who would like a coy of the Chater 766 arent’s rights brochure or who have questions about the rogram should contact the Director of uil Services.

The Donna L. Gnatek Media Center The Media Center is located on the first floor.  The Center encomasses the library, the audio-visual deartment and a comuter area.

Teachers and students are encouraged to make full use of the Center’s holdings which include an extensive circulating and reference book collection, magazines, newsaers, a vertical file, microfilm and audio-visual hardware and software.

The library web site uhtt:/www.the-sa.com/ghs/ghs/Library/index.html rovides home access to many library resources, such as databases (obtain asswords from librarian), librarian-selected web sites for secific assignments, search tis, an interactive book review blog, lists of new books, and more.

Students exhibiting inaroriate behavior while in the Center or those with overdue books outstanding may lose use of the center until all obligations have been satisfied.

Hours:   

Monday - Friday 7:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Extended hours available uon request

Procedures:

·          Books may be borrowed for three weeks, renewal available if not needed by another erson.

·          Reference books and eriodicals are to be used in the library.

·          Students may not check out books for another student.

·          School conduct rules must be followed.

·          Eating and drinking in the library is rohibited.

·          A quiet atmoshere will be maintained.

·          Student use of the library may be curtailed if rules are not followed.

·          Students must resent a ass from their classroom teacher in order to use the Center.

·          To use the Center during lunch, students must obtain a ass from the librarian or a teacher before school that day.

·          All students must sign in and out each time they enter and leave the center.

ACTIVITIES

Student Organizations - Eligibility

In order to articiate in any school organization a student must satisfy the same eligibility requirements for athletic articiation. Continued articiation may also be denied based on chronic disciline roblems as determined by administration and the organization advisor.

SCHOOL COUNCIL The GHS School Council, made u of faculty, arents, students, and community members, serves to advise the rincial, who acts as chair, on matters of school olicy.  Created by the Education Reform Act of 1993, the School Council's rimary task is to draft a yearly School Imrovement lan.  Meetings are oen to the ublic and generally held once a month during the school year. Call the Main Office for more information. 

STUDENT COUNCIL The urose of the Student Council is to romote communication between students and faculty, take artial resonsibility for their own welfare and to advise the administration and school committee on student concerns.

The Student Council consists of one faculty member and four reresentatives in good standing from each of the 6 grade levels.  A resident is elected by the entire student body to reside at all meetings for the council.

REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL RERESENTATIVES The student body elects delegates and alternates to the Regional Student Advisory Council of the State Deartment of Education.  The delegates reresent the school at eriodic meetings at area high schools.

CLASS OFFICERS Class Officers are usually elected in the sring.  They generally retain their osition for a eriod of one (1) year.

NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY The National Honor Society at the Granby Jr.-Sr. High School is committed to the recognition of excellence in Scholarshi, Service, Leadershi, and

Character.  The Society meets on a regular basis under the direction of its officers and advisor, in order to lan activities, develo rograms and discuss toics of interest.

Eligibility Requirements:

The following is an abridged summary of the eligibility requirements for the National Honor Society.  A more comrehensive statement can be obtained from the advisors, Mr. Woodcock and Mrs. Burgess.

a.    Candidates shall have attended at least one semester in Granby Jr.-Sr. High School.

b.   Candidates shall be members of the Junior or Senior Cb l/bass.

c.    Candidates and members shall carry no fewer than 20 credits er year in academic honors/standard classes. An academic class is defined as one that assigns regular homework.

d.    Candidates (starting with the class of 2003) must earn 10 or more credits er year at the Honors Level.

e.    Only candidates who have a weighted cumulative final grade average of 90 or better beginning in Grade 9 will be considered.

In addition to the academic requirements, a candidate must meet the other criteria of excellence in service, leadershi, and character. yes"  All candidates will articiate in the Society’s annual rojects as well as erforming 12 hours of individual service er year. A five-member faculty council, aointed by the rincial, meets to elect the candidates who have met the standards.   The selection is based uon the candidate’s submitted credentials, faculty inut, and committee discussion. A coy of the by-laws is available to any interested student.

ACADEMIC DECATHLON (ACADEC) The Massachusetts Academic Decathlon, now in its eighteenth season, matches teams of high school students from high schools across the state in a series of 10 academic events. In addition, students comete in events measuring communication skills, which include writing an essay, delivering a reared and imromtu seech, and answering questions in an oral interview. Students are given awards based on both individual and team achievements. The team that wins the state finals will go on to reresent Massachusetts at the national chamionshi in Los Angeles in Aril.

S.A.D.D.   (STUDENTS AGAINST DESTRUCTIVE DECISIONS)  s 12.0t;mso-bidi--weight:bold" The urose of S.A.D.D. is to rovide students with the best revention and intervention tools ossible to deal with the issues of underage drinking, other drug use, imaired driving, and other destructive decisions.

H.O..E.   (HELING OUT EOLE EVERYWHERE)  s 12.0t;mso-bidi--weight:bold" This volunteer organization club under its advisors erforms numerous activities during the school year.  Members hel out at the two elementary schools, assist with senior citizen dances in school, and erform charitable work including raising money for different organizations.

THE LITERARY MAGAZINE  This club under its advisors solicits student artwork and writing and ublishes under the title Musings.b   stext-decoration: none;text-underline:none" 

Granby Booster Club

The Granby Booster Club is a non-rofit fundraising committee that suorts and rewards students in their activities at Granby Jr./Sr. High School.  Some of the events that the club sonsor are the academic luncheons, the sorts award banquets, the senior sorts award ceremonies, and the urchase of banners for winning teams and clubs.  In ast years the club has also urchased such items as trohy cases, bleachers, batting cages, the outdoor concession building, and new water fountains for the high school gym.  During the year the Booster Club runs several fundraisers to ay for these events and items.  We encourage and suort all arents or guardians to become active members of this very generous organization.   If you would like to hel, lease contact any Booster member or call Cindy Toth at 467-9575.

We are a newly formed organization dedicated to the enhancement of the students’ musical exerience. Our emhasis will be focused toward generating community suort for various initiatives: such as funding for instruments and uniforms. In addition, we hoe to foster oortunities for students to articiate in activities beyond the core school exeriences. We strongly encourage all interested arties to articiate by attending regular meetings or by contacting Challis Krulewitz at a href="mailto:ckrulewitz@berkshirehills.org"ckrulewitz@berkshirehills.org/a

ATHLETICS

In order to articiate in the interscholastic athletic rogram and/or any co-curricular activity at Granby Junior-Senior High School a student must, where alicable, conform to the rules of eligibility as set forth by the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) and the Granby ublic Schools.

Athletics is an integral art of education.  It encomasses the hilosohy, aims and objectives of the institution.   The range of exeriences offered in athletics broadens the scoe of the total education of the individual.

Everyone is a otential athlete and should be encouraged and allowed the oortunity to articiate in sorts, games and hysical activity.  Within high school sorts’ rograms, young eole learn values associated with disciline, erforming under stress, teamwork, sacrifice, commitment, effort, accountability, citizenshi, sortsmanshi, confidence, leadershi, organizational skills, articiation within rules, hysical well-being, chemical health, striving toward excellence, and many other characteristics that come quickly to mind of any educator. 

While winning contests, rather than losing them, is a laudable goal, it should not suersede the rimary riorities of high school sorts’ rograms.  What should be the rationale behind high school activities is rearing students to succeed in all endeavors rather than merely to win athletic contests.   Win or lose, students should learn lessons of a lasting and ositive nature.

Interscholastic sorts offered at Granby Jr/Sr High School are:

FALL SORTS

Cross Country               Boys and Girls

Soccer: JV, Varsity and Middle School

             Boys and Girls

Football/b : Co-o with Holyoke Catholic

WINTER SORTS/i

Basketball/b : JV, Varsity and Middle School

                 Boys and Girls

Cheerleading/b : JV and Varsity

Hockey/b : Co-o with South Hadley  

Wrestling  

Swimming/b : Co-o with Holyoke Catholic

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i uSRING SORTS/i

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Baseball/b : JV and Varsity

Golf/b : JV and Varsity 

" uCHEERLEADING

Cheerleading is oen to any student in grades 7  - 12.  Tryouts are held in May or June. Cheerleading is an athletic activity and all members are exected to abide by the school athletic code.

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uATTENDANCE ELIGIBILITY;

All articiants must be in attendance on the school day of the activity or the day rior to an activity on a non-school day unless granted ermission by the rincial or Athletic Director.  "Attendance" means the student is resent for at least 75% of the school day. If a student is resent less than 75%, he/she will be ineligible for athletic cometition, ractice or co- curricular articiation on that day. Co-curricular activities are those that haen in addition to the regular classroom including, but not limited to, field tris, clubs, athletic teams, school lays, dances, etc.

" uACADEMIC ELIGIBILITY s

mso-agination:none;mso-list:l34 level1 lfo449.0t" 1. To be eligible all students must be taking the equivalent course load of a full-time student.

2. A student must obtain, during the last marking eriod receding articiation in a sort or activity, a assing grade (60 or above) for the term average and final average where alicable. This requirement alies to all subjects.   Eligibility cannot be reinstated through remedial study outside of Granby Jr.-Sr. High School.  That is, individuals who are ineligible for fall articiation as a result of failing grades received during the fourth marking eriod or the final grade of the receding academic year, cannot become eligible until the osting of grades for marking eriod one.  The academic eligibility of all students shall be considered as official and determined only on the date when the reort cards for that marking eriod have been issued.

" uAcademic Waiver

In the event that a student does not meet the current academic requirements, they would be eligible to aly for a waiver. 

Limitations:

.25in;mso-agination:none;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2list sSymbol"·          ; Students are eligible to receive a waiver once in their middle school years and once in their high school years.

.25in;mso-agination:none;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2list sSymbol"·          ; Students are limited to one athletic or one co-curricular waiver for academic reasons only.

.25in;mso-agination:none;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2list sSymbol"·          ; Sorts’ waivers would last for the current or following season

.25in;mso-agination:none;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2list sSymbol"·          ; Co-curricular waivers would last for the following quarter.

If granted, students would be laced on academic robation.

.25in;mso-agination:none;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo8list sSymbol"·          ; The guidance deartment will monitor academic robation utilizing weekly reorts.

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Waiver Committee:

The waiver committee would include five members:

.25in;mso-agination:none;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo9list sSymbol"·          ; The rincial

.25in;mso-agination:none;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo9list sSymbol"·          ; The Athletic Director

.25in;mso-agination:none;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo9list sSymbol"·          ; Two of the four teachers who had the student during the time in which the academic failure occurred; the teacher issuing the failing grade will be requested first, but have the right to decline. Two of the other three teachers must voluntarily agree to reresent the teachers on the committee.

.25in;mso-agination:none;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo9list sSymbol"·          ; One teacher (or more) from the staff at large, chosen by lottery, from those who volunteer, in order to total five members.

.25in;mso-agination:none;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3list sSymbol"·          ; Decision of the committee would be determined by majority.

Those students who transfer into Granby Jr/Sr High School will be considered eligible for the first quarter in which they are enrolled in the Granby ublic Schools.   After comletion of one full quarter, the academic requirements will take effect.

uCOMLAINTS/CONCERNS - ATHLETICS

If a student or arent has a concern/comlaint regarding some asect of the athletic rogram, the concern/comlaint should be ut in writing and follow this rocedure:

1.  See the Coach - if not resolved, then

2.  See the Athletic Director - if not resolved, then

3.  See the rincial, if not resolved, then

4.  See the Suerintendent/School Committee

uARTICIATION STATEMENT;

All students have the oortunity to try out for the various athletic teams available. All otential student-athletes are resonsible for comleting all necessary aerwork and obtaining a hysical.  No student will be allowed to articiate until all forms are comleted.

CHEMICAL HEALTH  All students must observe sound health and training rules.  MIAA Blue Book states section 62.1 "During the season of ractice or lay, a student shall not, regardless of the quantity, use or consume, ossess, buy/sell or give away any

beverage containing alcohol; any tobacco roduct; marijuana; steroidor any controlled substance.   This olicy includes roducts such as “NA or near beer”. It is not a violation for a student to be in ossession of a legally defined drug secifically rescribed for the student's own use by his/her doctor."  

benalties for violation of the above rule:  

First Offense;   The student shall lose eligibility for the next two consecutive interscholastic events, or two weeks of a season in which the student is a articiant, whichever encomasses the greater number of contests. 

uSecond Offense; The student shall lose eligibility for the next 12 consecutive interscholastic events, or 12 weeks of a season in which the student is a articiant, whichever encomasses the greater number of contests.

enalties shall be cumulative each academic year. If the enalty eriod is not comleted during the season of violation the enalty shall carry over to the student’s next season of actual articiation.

buATHLETIC USER FEE: The cost of sorts’ articiation in Granby athletic rograms is $100 er sort. Families who have more than one child laying sorts in the same season can contact the rincial's office for the adjd fee schedule. The cost of co-oerative rograms is based uon the total cost of the rogram and the total number of articiants. See aendix for comlete olicy ertaining to co-oerative rograms. See School Committee olicy for any co-oerative rogram started after 6/03. Any individual needing financial assistance should see the Athletic Director or rincial.

b NCAA ACADEMIC ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS Student-athletes interested in articiating in a college Division I or II athletic rogram umust make sure that they fulfill all NCAA academic eligibility requirements.

b HAZING No organization shall conduct any method of initiation which endangers the hysical or mental health of any student. See Aendix regarding hazing.

b CODE OF DISCILINE  

" uABOUT RULES AND REGULATIONS

Every grou must have certain rules by which it exists.    The majority of students at Granby are here to articiate in the rocess of education as they grow intellectually, socially, and hysically to mature into well-rounded citizens. 

So that GHS can roerly encourage this growth, a set of rules and regulations has been established.  They are not meant to be restrictive but are designed to foster good citizenshi and to allow the student body the oortunity to achieve its educational goals.

 Unfortunately, there are students who indulge in anti-social and disrutive conduct which may hinder their own education and infringe uon the educational rights of their classmates. s All students in the Granby School District have the right to an education that will foster develoment to their maximum otential.  Given this right, any student whose conduct disruts the educational rocess may be subject to susension or other discilinary action.

Cases of unaccetable conduct will be judged, as far as ossible, on individual merits.  The following list (but not limited to) are examles of interventions or consequences available to school authorities to maintain a desirable educational atmoshere: student conference, notification of student’s behavior to the arent, arental conference, loss of rivileges, robationary status, demerits, exclusion from school activities, detentions, in-school susensions, susensions, rosecution in court, and exulsion.

Not all issues can be outlined in this handbook.  Items listed are for the urose of examle and administration reserves the right to administer consequences as deemed aroriate for the situation.

School rules aly at school and all school-related activities and functions such as dances, field tris, etc.

b DUE ROCESS ROCEDURE The Disciline Code of Granby Jr.-Sr. High School is administered within the guidelines set forth by the U.S. Sureme Court with regard to due rocess for students.

1. Charges

      a.   A student facing susension shall be given oral or written notice of the charges(s) against him/her.

      b.                The student shall also be given an exlanation of the basis for the charge(s) and shall be informed of his/her right to resent his/her side.

2. Hearing

      a.                The student shall be given an oortunity to exlain his/her version of the incident uon which the charge is based.

      b.   This hearing must recede rather than follow the susension.

      c.   Such a hearing does not require that school officials give the student the oortunity to secure counsel, nor for confrontation and cross-examination of witnesses.

3. Excetions

      a.                If a student's continued resence in school might endanger ersons or roerty or threaten disrution of the academic rocess, he or she may be immediately excluded.   In this case, notice of susension hearing must be sent to the arents within 24 hours of removal.

b INFRACTIONS OF SCHOOL RULES  All of the following unishments for the offenses mentioned areb /bconsidered MINIMAL.   You may receive a more severe enalty deending on the severity of the roblem, your record of ast behavior, and the scoe of the incident in light of the orderly oeration of the school.

Also, this list is not meant to be all-inclusive; teachers and administration are well within their rights to deal with unique situations as they occur.

The rincial, at his/her discretion, as the result of a discilinary event, may exclude a student from graduation ceremonies.

b DEMERIT SYSTEM Under the demerit system, demerits will be assigned by an Administrator.  Once a student reaches 10 demerits a letter will be mailed to their arents. yes"  When a student reaches 20 demerits, he/she will be susended from school for a eriod of one to five days.  When a student returns to school and classes following a susension, based on the accumulation of demerits, the demerits leading to the susension are credited.

uINFRACTION                                                      uENALTY

Abuse of ass                                                    2 demerits

Disresect of Staff Member                                  5 demerits

Horselay/misbehavior                                         2 demerits

In hall without a ass                                           2 demerits

In unauthorized area of building/grounds                 2 demerits

Forgery                                                             5 demerits

Inaroriate language/gestures                           5 demerits

Late to school (unexcused)                                  3 demerits

s Refusal to return for teacher detention                  10 demerits & detention must

s                                                                            be served

Tardy to class                                                     2 demerits

Intentional misreresentation                                5 demerits

Disruting a class                                               5 demerits

Inaroriate behavior in the building                     2 demerits.

Leaving class without ermission              5 demerits

Harassment 1sust/su offense                                       4 demerits

Unreared for class                                           2 demerits

Note assing                                                      2 demerits  & note mailed

                                                                            home

Removal from class                                             5 demerits

Safety violations or actions that

            jeoardize safety                                     5 demerits

Reeated misconduct                                          5 demerits

Failure to sign into school                                    5 demerits

Any actions not outlined above will result in demerits issued at the discretion of administration.

Students may avoid susension by maintaining good behavior.  For every week where no demerits have been issued, 1 demerit will be deducted.  For every hour sent after school with a teacher for extra hel, 1 demerit will be deducted if the aroriate form is submitted to guidance.  For each hour of work erformed on behalf of the school outside of school hours on a voluntary basis, 1 demerit will be deducted.

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If a student has reviously exceeded the demerit allowance, further violations will result in rogressively longer susensions.

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Students asked by a teacher to leave the classroom for discilinary reasons must reort directly to the Vice rincial's Office for aroriate action. Failure to do so is considered insubordination.

SATURDAY SCHOOL s :

Our Saturday School rogram allows for students to access Saturday School in lieu of external susension.  This otion is resented at the discretion of the administration.  In some circumstances, Saturday School will not be substituted for susension.  In order for a student to be credited with Saturday School, he/she must be successful while there.   A student may also arrange to be resent at Saturday School in orderb smso-bidi--weight: normal" /bto reduce their total number of accumulated demerits.  If a student agrees to be resent at Saturday School in lieu of external susension and does not show on the designated date, he/she must be externally susended on the following Monday.  If a student is unsuccessful at Saturday School and is sent home, he/she will be externally susended on the following Monday.

b SUSENSION In the case of extreme disregard for school olicies and rules a student may be susended for a number of days.  This resonse to a misbehavior is a most serious consequence. 

Susension means the temorary exclusion by a roerly authorized school official of a student from a school-sonsored rogram. 

During the eriod of susension the student may not attend any co-curricular activities either as a articiant or a sectator in which the school is involved. Co-curricular activities are those that haen in addition to the regular classroom including, but not limited to, field tris, clubs, athletic teams, school lays, dances, etc.   A susended student may not be on school grounds or at any school-sonsored event; violation of this may result in additional susension time and/or a criminal comlaint with the court system for tresassing.

Susended students are resonsible for getting assignments from each subject area teacher the day before the susension begins.  All assignments must be comleted during the susension.  Tests missed during susension may be made u on the first day the student is readmitted to school.

The susended student must be reinstated into school in the resence of a Parent/guardian or other resonsible adult by the rincial or Vice rincial.  

" Social Susension - A student under Social Susension will attend school but is not allowed to attend any school functions for the duration of the social susension. This would include sorting events, dances, field tris, assemblies,

etc. as deemed aroriate in regard to the offense.

The following (but not limited to) are susendable offenses.

1. Leaving School Grounds--leaving the building or school grounds without ermission of the administration

2. Swearing at Staff/Student --vulgar or inaroriate language or conduct directed toward a staff member or student

3. Insubordination--deliberate refusal to follow the instructions or directions of an instructor or staff member

4. Overt Safety Violation--deliberate violation of safety rocedures for any articular school environment.  This includes traffic violations on school grounds, shooting aer clis, etc.

5. Vandalism--intentional damage to or destruction of school roerty or the roerty of others (and restitution for damages will be included)

6. Larceny--the unlawful taking of another's roerty, or in receit of stolen roerty (and restitution for damages)

7. Hazing--any conduct or method of initiation into any student organization, whether on ublic or rivate roerty, which willfully or recklessly endangers the hysical or mental health of any student or other erson is rohibited.  See aendix for a coy of the law.

8. Smoking--smoking, the use of smokeless tobacco or other tobacco roducts, or the ossession of any tobacco roduct (including lighters, matches, other smoking arahernalia, etc) on school roerty or at a school-sonsored event is rohibited. See i Tobacco olicy/i under i Chemical Health/i in the next section.

9. Bullying--to force into or deterb /bfrom action by inducing fear, usually by threat.

10. Assault and Battery--assault--a willful threat or an attemt to use force on an individual; battery--the willful alication of force to another erson resulting in any harmful or offensive touching of another erson's body or anything another erson is wearing, holding, touching, enclosed in, resting uon, or suorted by; verbal assault--abusive language and disresect/insolence in the extreme with an imlied or exlicit threat to another erson. In addition, under the Mass. Ed. Reform Act of 1993, any student who assaults school ersonnel is subject to exulsion. A mandatory exulsion hearing will be held. (For more information, see Exulsion/i)

11. Extremely vulgar language--use of extremely inaroriate language.

12. Setting off a False Fire Alarm; Arson—setting a fire—olice and Fire deartments will be notified and criminal charges ressed.

13. Any violation of the Chemical Health olicy (see section that follows).

14. lagiarism-- lagiarism refers to a form of cheating that has been defined as “the false assumtion of authorshi; the wrongful act of taking the roduct of another erson’s mind, and resenting it as one’s own.” (Lindey, Alexander.

Plagiarism and Originality/i. New York: Harer, 1952.) Any student who fails to give aroriate acknowledgement when “reeating another’s wording or articularly at term, arahrasing another’s argument, or resenting another’s line of thinking is guilty of lagiarism.” (Gibaldi, Joseh. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research aers/i. Fourth ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1995.)

Examles of plagiarism include but are not limited to the following:

1. Coying a peer’s work and resenting that work as if it is your own.

2.  Cutting and asting writing form the Internet, a book, or magazine into your own aer.

3. arahrasing the words of another without citing your source.

4. Self lagiarism – the author’s attemt to deceive the reader by giving no indication that the work has been recycled or when an effort has been made to disguise the original text.

Students who lagiarize must realize the seriousness of this academic offense. If it is found that a student has lagiarized, he/she will be subject to the following consequencea) failure on the aer or assignment; b) notification to the arent by the classroom teacher; c) a one day susension; and d) the exulsion from any leadershi osition such as NHS, class officer, student council, team catain, etc. The student will have access to an aeal by resenting his/her case to a committee comrised of the classroom teacher, the deartment chairerson, the rincial and the vice-rincial. This aeal must be requested within three school days of the notification of the academic offense.

15. Harassment-- Granby Jr/Sr High School will not tolerate harassment of any student based on, but not limited to, gender, race, national origin, sexual orientation, hysical/mental disability, religion or economic status. This includes using terms of a derogatory nature such as, but not limited to, racial, religious, or sexual reference slurs. As an institution it is dedicated to insuring the well being of all individuals by roviding a safe and nurturing environment conducive to academic success and mental health.  It is the resonsibility of the school community to insure that the rights of all students, staff, and arent in this regard are rotected.  See also Aendix, regarding comlete school committee olicy on harassment.

16. Dislaying of ornograhic Material

17. Class Cut  -  1 Day of Saturday School & no credit and makeu

18. Truancy    - yes"   1 Day of Saturday School & no credit and makeu

Continued susendable acts will result in rogressive or longer terms of susensions at the discretion of administration.

buAcademic Dishonesty The following list defines indisutable ways, which results in NO CREDIT for the secific iece of work.

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Using unauthorized material, coying an answer from another student’s test/quiz, communicating with another student during a test/quiz about the content of the test/quiz, obtaining the test or answer key in advance (taking material from the teacher’s desk, file, etc.), coying another student’s homework, lab reorts, etc., submitting collaborative work as if it were individual work when individual work is required, submitting work from the internet as if it was an individual’s work, obtaining answers from somebody who has already taken the quiz/test, using materials and/or tools forbidden by the teacher (dictionaries, calculators, notes, etc.), using re-rogrammed calculators, altering a corrected test/quiz, changing or adding answers when correcting another student’s work, changing or adding answers after finishing a test/quiz, working beyond the time allotted, accessing comuter files that are off-limits, rinting another’s comuter file and relacing the name, coying comuter files, obtaining email answers, and switching keyboards

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b EXULSION An exulsion is a ermanent susension from school.  This means a student would never again be able to attend any Granby ublic School. Some of the reasons for exulsion are:

Under G.L. Chater 71, Section 37H:

mso-agination:none;mso-list:l45 level1 lfo45list a)       any student who is found on school remises or at school-sonsored or school-related events, including athletic games, in ossession of a dangerous weaon, including, but not limited to, a gun or knife; or a controlled substance as defined in chater ninety-four C, including, but not limited to, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. A dangerous weaon is defined as any knife, firearm, fireworks, exlosive or flammable devices, any device with metallic sikes, oints or studs, as well as any instrument such as an ice ick, screw drive, bullets, ammunition, and similar instruments which can be used to inflict bodily injury on another erson.

;mso-agination: none; b)   any student who assaults a rincial, assistant rincial, teacher, teacher's aide or other educational staff on school remises or at school-sonsored or school-related events, including athletic games.

Under G.L. Chater 76, Sections 16 & 17:

;mso-agination: none; c)   any student who is in habitual violation of school regulations, and/or restricts the education of others, and/or consistently jeoardizes the welfare of others, and fails to ositively modify his or her behavior or imrove on ast negative attitude and erformance.

Any student who is charged with an offense that warrants an exulsion shall be notified in writing of an oortunity for a hearing.  At the hearing the student may have reresentation and the oortunity to resent evidence and witnesses. After the hearing the rincial (under sections a and b) or the School Committee (under section c) will decide whether to exel the student.

When a student is exelled, no school or school district within the commonwealth shall be required to rovide educational services to said student.  If the student does aly for admission to another school district, that school district shall receive from the exelling school a written statement of the reason for the exulsion.

Under Chater 71, Section 37 /2, uon the issuance of a criminal comlaint charging a student with a felony, the rincial may susend the student if that student's continued resence in school would have a substantial detrimental effect on the general welfare of the school.  If the student is convicted of a felony, the rincial may exel the student under the same conditions.   In either case, the student will receive written notification of the charges and reasons, and notification and rocess for an aeal. yes"   Uon exulsion, no school shall be required to rovide educational services to the student. (See State Law in Aendix ]

b CHEMICAL HEALTH OLICY  

Students and adults shall be barred from any school-sonsored activity if he or she has been drinking alcoholic beverages rior to his or her attendance at or articiation in said school-sonsored activity.

It is the resonsibility of all school staff members to forward any information they might have concerning drug or narcotic use, ossession, urchase or sale, to the school administration.

Students are urged to forward any information they might have so that the health and safety of fellow students may be rotected.

In order to insure that safety, a search of a student’s erson may include the use of a breathalyzer or a urinalysis drug screen when there is reasonable susicion to believe that the student is under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance. The refusal of a student to articiate in the breathalyzer test or urinalysis drug screen may lead to a discilinary enalty equal to the offense of which the student is susected.

" uUnder the Influence of Alcohol, Drugs, or a Controlled Substance

The arent must come to school for a conference and to take the student home.  Consequences could include susension, community service to the school, meeting with an outside agency and/or an assessment done by an outside agency with lan of action submitted to school.

" uossession or Distribution of Alcohol, Drugs, or a Controlled Substance;

The olice will be notified and the arent contacted. All contraband will be turned over to the olice for criminal rosecution.  In addition, under the Mass.

Ed. Reform Act of 1993, any student found in ossession of drugs is subject to exulsion and a mandatory exulsion hearing will be held. (For more information see i Exulsion/i)  Consequences could include exulsion from school, susension, community service to the school, meeting with an outside agency, and/or an assessment done by an outside agency with lan of action (such as an in-atient or out-atient  treatment rogram) submitted to school.

" uossession of Tobacco

The Granby ublic Schools is dedicated to roviding a healthy, smoke-free environment for its students, staff and visitors to its facilities. Smoking and the use of tobacco roducts by students, staff, volunteers, and visitors are rohibited on all school roerty at all times. District olicy rohibits student ossession of tobacco roducts or arahernalia on school roerty and at school-sonsored tris or events.

Students in violation of this olicy for the 1sust/su time will:

" a.   Be susended for 1 day

.   Parent/guardian notified by letter

hone within 24 hours

" c.   Notification to the Athletic Director (MIAA regulations will aly to athletes)

" d.   Be ut on a designated lavatory list (student required to use the bathroom in the clinic for the remainder of the year)

Students in violation of this olicy for the 2sund/su time:

" a.   Be susended for 2 days

b.    erform 4 hours of community service. The service roject will be determined at the discretion of the Assistant rincial and/or rincial. 

" c.   Parent/guardian conference

" d.   Notification to the Athletic Director

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.   Parent/guardian conference

For more information on chemical health ertaining to student-athletes, see i chemical health/i under i Athletic olicies. /iFor the comlete school olicy on tobacco, see i Tobacco Control olicy/i in the aendix.

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All students are exected to meet the requirements for behavior as set forth in this handbook.   603 CMR requires that additional rovisions be made for students who have been found by an evaluation TEAM to have a disability and

whose rogram is described in an Individualized Educational lan (IE).   The following additional requirements aly to the disciline these students:

1.   Any modifications to the disciline code for a disabled student will be described in the student’s IE.

The rincial (or designee) will notify the uil Service Office of the susended offense of a student with disabilities, and a record will be ket of such notices.

3.   When it is known that the susension(s) of a student with disabilities will accumulate to 10 days in a school year, a review of the IE will be held to determine the aroriateness of the student's lacement or rogram.   The TEAM will make a finding as to the relationshi between the student's misconduct and his/her handicaing condition and with Parent/guardian aroval will:

a.   design a modified rogram for the student or:

b.   write an amendment to rovide for the delivery of secial education services during the susension of any needed modification of the IE relative to disciline code exectations.

In addition, the Deartment of Education will be notified as required by law, and the rocedures romulgated by the Deartment of Education for requesting aroval of the alternative lan will be followed.

Coies of the Regulations and arents' Rights brochure, which addresses the disciline of students with disabilities, are available in the uil Services Office.

4.   If rior to the discilinary action, the school had knowledge that the student may be a student with a disability, then the school makes all rotections available to the student until and unless the student is subsequently determined not to be eligible.  rior knowledge consists of:

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5.   If the student’s arent requests an evaluation subsequent to the discilinary action, the school will conduct an exedited evaluation to determine eligibility.

"TRANSORTATION  

" AUTOMOBILES

All students who wish to drive to school must submit to the Main Office a coy of the Student Driving Form signed by the student and arent b smso-bidi--weight: normal"i and ay the arking fee/i/b i rior/i to driving to school.   Students who fail to obtain ermission rior to driving to school are subject to discilinary action normal"i and subject to having their vehicle towed at the vehicle owner's exense/i/b. yes"  Driving to school is a rivilege, holding with it the resonsibility of following the school's

driving regulations.  Coies of the agreement and regulations are available in the Vice rincial's Office.

BUS CONDUCT;

uils transorted in a school bus shall be under the authority of the school district and under control of the bus driver, a legal reresentative of the school.  Any misbehavior which distracts the driver is ua very serious hazard to the safe oeration of the vehicle and, as such, jeoardizes the safety of all assengers. Disorderly conduct, insubordination, or any infraction of the rules shall be sufficient reason for the uil to be denied the rivilege of riding the bus for a short term or ermanent basis. arents/guardians are exected to rovide transortation of the student during all eriods of susension of bus-riding rivileges.

The following rules and regulations are to serve as guidelines for you to follow:

margin-bottom: 1.    While waiting at the designated bus sto, you must refrain from destructive or disturbing behavior.   Stay off the traveled ortions of the street or highway.

2.    Students should enter the bus in an orderly fashion and go directly to a seat, remaining there until your destination has been reached.  Dearture from the bus should also be in an orderly fashion.

; 3.   There shall be no littering or defacing of your bus.

; 4.   There shall be no eating or drinking on the bus.

5.    There shall be no obnoxious noisemaking, swearing, horselay, throwing objects from the bus, or any other activity which will distract the driver’s attention from the road.

6.    Students shall kee their hands, arms, and heads inside the bus at all times.

.25in;mso-list:l27 level1 lfo37 7.       In accordance with STATE LAWS, there shall be NO SMOKING on the school buses. The lighting of matches, lighters, or other inflammable devices is also rohibited.  Susensions will result from any infringement of these rules. The school tobacco olicy will be the minimum consequence regarding infractions on the bus or at bus stos.

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8.    Students assigned to secific seats for whatever reason must remain in that assigned seat at all times.  Without rior aroval from the school   administration, students will only be allowed to ride their assigned bus and be icked u and droed off at their assigned sto.      

; 9.   Students shall show courtesy toward fellow assengers and the driver.

10.   The emergency exits are to be used in emergency situations only, under direction from the driver.  Safety equiment on any bus is not to be handled  excet under the driver’s direction.

11.   In the event of an accident, students should remain calm, following the instructions of the driver immediately and without question.   If the driver is incaacitated, the older students aboard should assume charge, roceeding immediately to evacuate the bus in an orderly fashion.  Make certain that no student is overlooked.

12.   There shall be no throwing of objects, including snowballs, at the ick-u site or on the bus.

13.   No student will be allowed to leave his/her seat or stand while the bus is in motion.

14.   Students will only be icked u and droed off at their assigned stos. Students attemting to use a non-ublished bus sto without rior administrative aroval will be subject to discilinary action.

15.   Large items such as musical instruments and golf clubs, etc. cannot be brought on the bus without ermission from the school rincial.

; 16.  Skateboards are not allowed on any school bus.

uBUS CARDS

When misconduct on a school bus becomes serious enough to ossibly warrant loss of bus rivileges, the administration shall be notified by the bus driver through the issuance of a Bus Conduct Reort.

1st Reort         Verbal/Written Warning

2nd Reort        3 Days Loss of rivileges

3rd Reort         5 Days Loss of rivileges

4th Reort         10 Days Loss of rivileges

5th Reort         Exclusionary Hearing

uSEAT BELT OLICY

All students driving on school roerty are required to wear their seatbelts

uStudents in violation of this olicy for the 1sust/su time:

--Parent/guardian will be notified

--Warning will be issued to the driver and/or assenger not wearing a seatbelt

--Safety education information will be distributed to the student

uStudents in violation of this olicy for the 2sund/su time:

--Parent/guardian will be notified

--Safety education information will be distributed to the student

--1 day susension of arking rivileges for the driver

uStudents in violation of this olicy for the 3surd/su time and subsequent offenses:

--3 day susension of arking rivileges

MISCELLANEOUS/  

SEARCH AND SEIZURE

Because of the need for teachers and school officials to administer disciline swiftly and informally and to maintain order and safety in schools, searches of students will haen when there is reasonable grounds for susecting that the search will turn u evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law or school.b /bLockers, lab tables, desks, and other equiment and facilities rovided by the Granby ublic Schools for use by the students are the roerty of the school district and are subject to search at any time for any reason. When aroriate, the olice and the use of trained animals may be used to conduct such a search.

A student’s erson, ersonal belongings and automobile, bicycle, or other form of transortation is subject to search when a staff member has reasonable susicion to believe that the student is in ossession of any thing, the ossession of which is a violation of the criminal law or of the discilinary olicies of the district, or the student is in ossession of anything which is evidence of such criminal or discilinary violation.

A search of a student’s erson may include the use of a breathalyzer or a urinalysis drug screen when there is reasonable susicion to believe that the student is under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance. The refusal of a student to articiate in the breathalyzer test or urinalysis drug screen may lead to a discilinary enalty equal to the offense of which the student is susected.u

uFACULTY MAILBOXES

Faculty mailboxes are rivate and under no circumstances is any student to remove anything or ut anything in a faculty mailbox without the exressed authorization of a teacher or member of the office staff.

STUDENT ASSES

A student must have a corridor ass on his/her erson when not in his/her assigned area.  It is the student’s obligation to obtain such a ass.   Students without a ass are subject to discilinary action.

ACCESS TO STUDENT WORK/ During the course of the school year, ersonally identifiable student work may be seen and reviewed by third arties.  For examle, ersonally identifiable student work may be dislayed on bulletin boardat fairs/showduring Oen

House, arent Night, and arent teacher conferenceand thus, will be seen by many different eole, not just the student, the arent, and the teacher.  In addition, as an instructional technique, students may be asked to edit, grade, review and/or comment on another student’s work.  All of this activity is art of the regular educational rocess and serves to benefit students.  By signing the verification form (or meeting the terms of the verification form) with this handbook, the student and/or the arent and/or the guardian is hereby agreeing to the disclosure of student work as outlined in this aragrah.

CALCULATOR OLICY  s 12.0t"All incoming freshman, for the 2005-2006 school year, will be required to urchase a TI-84 lus grahing calculator.  If, in the future, it becomes necessary to change the kind of calculator, it would be done in Grade 9 before the student enters high school.

MISCELLANEOUS  ITEMS Items that are not of an educational nature and/or could cause disrution to the educational rocess are not to be brought to school (i.e. water guns, laser ointers, etc.)

uBEEERS

AGERS/CELLULAR HONES:;

Students should not bring radios, walkmen, agers/beeers, electronic games, cassette recorders, CD layers, Laser ointers, cell hones etc. to school due to the distraction that they may cause and also because of their monetary value.  Students should understand that the school cannot guarantee that such items can be fully secured.   Since these items are valuable and the school cannot accet resonsibility for them, they are to be ket at home.   The school reserves the right to confiscate this equiment.  All confiscated equiment of this nature will, on the first offense, be returned two weeks later.  On the second offense, students will be subject to discilinary action and the equiment will not be returned until a arent conference has been held.

INARORIATE BEHAVIOR Students are to refrain from inaroriate ublic dislays of affection and behavior.

uTELEHONES/TELEHONE MESSAGES

Students are not to use the hones in the main office.b smso-bidi--weight: normal"  /bThere is a hone available during break, lunch and after school for student use (local calls only)

in the corridor outside the main office.  This service is rovided by the Granby Telehone Comany. yes" 

Telehone messages usually cannot be delivered to a student without interruting a teacher and the class.  Therefore, telehone messages cannot be acceted excet in emergencies, such as illness at home.

RULES OF THE CAFETERIA No cutting in line ahead of others or giving cuts.

No throwing of food or aers around tables or cafeteria.

Return all trays and be sure the table and the floor area are clean before you leave.

Students are not to yell or be loud.

Students are not to leave the cafeteria to enter other arts of the building excet to use the facilities adjacent to the cafeteria.

All food/drink must be consumed in the cafeteria, eating is not ermitted in the classrooms or corridors.

Students are to remain seated until they are dismissed from the cafeteria unless they have ermission otherwise.

COMUTERS/GUIDELINES AND RESONSIBILITIES

Each student is resonsible for heling to kee the comuter labs and library comuter stations in excellent working condition. yes"  Failure to abide by the following rules may result in the student’s losing his/her rivilege to access these rooms.

" 1.   Students umust be suervised while working in the comuter room.

" 2.   Students may not bring food or drink into the comuter room.

3.    Students should lace all trash in the roer recetacleurecycle when ossible.

4.    Students should lace books in roer laces, ush chairs in, and umake sure uthe work area is clean for the next class entering.

5.    Students should reort all comuter malfunctions immediately to the instructor.

6.    Students may only use comuters for schoolwork or as directed by the aroriate teacher.

7.       Students may only save work to their network account. Students must not rovide their network assword or access to their account to other students.   Only data/files relevant to courses a student is currently enrolled in may be saved to his/her account.

8.       Unless authorized by the aroriate teacher, the following are not allowed:

a.       Modification of any hardware including the connection or disconnection of eriherals devices.

       Installation, modification, moving, or deletion of any files or rograms on a comuter.

c.       Downloading files or rograms

d.       The use of removable media such as floy disks or CD’s, etc.

9.   Under no circumstance may a student:

a.       Access unauthorized rograms or files including files in another individual’s account

       Do anything that adversely affects the erformance of a comuter(s) or network

c.       Violate any relevant law including the coying of coyrighted material, rograms, or files

In the event that any violation of the above requires reair, reinstallation of files

rograms, or relacement of comuter arts, etc. the student is resonsible for restitution.  Any violation of the above may result in discilinary action taken by the administration.

Sales and Distribution

Students and organizations shall not conduct sales or distribution of any articles on school grounds, at any time, without the ermission of the rincial. 

Gambling

Non-sanctioned gambling is rohibited in school and on school grounds. yes" 

Skateboard Use

Students are not to use skateboards on school roerty.

HUMAN SEXUAL ISSUE

Chater 291 of the Acts of 1996, codified as General Laws Chater 71, Section 32A, and referred to as the arental Notification Law 32A requires each school to notify arents about any curriculum that rimarily involves human sexual education or human sexuality issues.  At Granby, those courses include Health, Child Care, Grade 7 Science, Biology, and Biology II.  As a arent, you have the right to exemt your child from any ortion of that curriculum without enalty.  If you wish to do so, lease notify the rincial in writing.  All rogram instruction materials for such curriculum are available to arents or guardians for insection and review.  If you would like to review these materials, lease call and make an aointment.

WORK ERMITS

Students residing in Granby can obtain state required work ermits in the

Guidance Deartment. All students between the ages of 14 and 18 must obtain a ermit for emloyment uroses.  For students 14 to 16 obtaining a ermit requires the emloyer’s signature and your hysician’s signature.   When this first card is returned with the roer signatures on it, the second art of the ermit will be issued.   The student MUST be resent for this art to be issued.  For students 16 to 18 a ermit may be obtained without any other signatures but again the student MUST be resent when comleting this form. Students 14-18 must have a work ermit if they are emloyed by a business.  Labor Laws are secific as to what jobs and hours students may work. You must have the romise of a job before you can obtain a ermit since you will be asked for the name and address of your emloyer as well as what you have been hired to do.  You may obtain a work ermit from Mrs. Tease in the Guidance area between the hours of 7:45 am - 3:00 m.

LOCKERS

Each student is assigned a locker and should not share lockers or combinations with other students. Therefore, to safeguard the things you have in your locker, kee the combination to yourself and your locker locked at all times.  The cost of a combination lock is $5.00. Students may not attach ersonal locks to a locker.

Students who damage or vandalize lockers will be charged a fee covering full reair. If a locker is defective, the student should reort it to the Vice rincial's Office.

Lost items which have been found should be turned into the Main Office.   After a reasonable eriod of time, lost school materials that have been found and not reclaimed will be returned to staff members.   Lost and found clothing and ersonal items will be donated to charitable organizations.

POSTERS

POSTING MATERIAL

Only osters related to activities sonsored by an official Granby High School organization or class may be osted. The sonsoring class, club, or erson must be identified on the osters. osters should not be hung on smooth ainted areas, or in windows of corridor doors obscuring vision u or down the corridor.

There are times when out-of-school organizations may wish to ost information concerning an ucoming event in the community.  Such grous must submit their osters to the Vice rincial's Office for aroval.   If aroved, such materials may then be osted in an area clearly designated as a non-school sonsored activity.

RIGHTS OF 18-YEAR-OLD STUDENTS

Once a erson reaches the age of 18, Massachusetts law (M.G.L.C. 4 #7, cl. 50 and 51) holds that he/she is an adult and has reached the age of majority.  Consistent with this definition of adult is the right to sign school-related documents.   However, students aged 18 or older are subject to the same school rules and disciline as all other students.   For examle, an 18-year-old may sign a dismissal note, but resonsible verification is still necessary.

VISITORS/GUESTS

arents or community members may visit the school or articular classroom; however, twenty-four hour notice is required.  All visitors and guests are to reort and sign in at the Main Office before roceeding to any art of the building and return to the Main Office to sign out when ready to leave.  All visitors in the school will be given a Visitor Badge to wear when they are in the building. Visitors who are behaving inaroriately will be required to leave the building.  Anyone who has demonstrated they are disrutive or abusive will have this rivilege revoked.

As a general rule student guests are not allowed to visit during the school day. A GHS students who knows a otential GHS student who wishes to visit the school with them should schedule an aointment with the Vice rincial.

DRESS CODE

Students are encouraged to dress and groom in a manner which is conducive to the learning atmoshere, which reflects ositively on the school and community, and exhibits good taste.  The school will enforce a dress code that comlies with state and town ordinances concerning health and safety; conforms with community norms of decency and does not endanger health or safety, damage school roerty or substantially disrut school activities. The tye of dress, aarel, grooming or ersonal belongings dislayed or reflected by our students shall not resent a hysical safety hazard to oneself, other students or other ersonnel.

Because of the nature of certain school activities, additional requirements may be made: for examle, gym clothes may be required in hysical education classeneckties or jewelry may have to be removed or hair secured; safety glasses or shoes adequate to rotect the feet may have to be worn in laboratories or sho classes.

Students should refrain from wearing clothing which results in a substantial disrution to the educational rocess or is distracting to the s-size:

In the event that any violation of the above requires reair, reinstallation of files

rograms, or relacement of comuter arts, etc. the student is resonsible for restitution.  Any violation of the above may result in discilinary action taken by the administration.

classroom or school.

Aarel or aearance, which tends to draw attention to an individual rather than to a learning situation, must be avoided.

The following exectations for student dress have been established to romote a safe and otimum learning environment:

1. Any clothing that is sexually suggestive, rovocative or revealing is disrutive of the learning environment. Clothing usually worn at beaches and while engaging in recreation activities are not aroriate wearing aarel for either boys or girls during regular school session or at school functions (certain excetions will aly, i.e. rom, field tris, etc.).

a.   Shirts and blouses must comletely cover the abdomen, and back.

b.   Underwear shall be covered at all times.

c.   Skirts, dresses, and shorts must reach mid-thigh.

d.   rohibited are clothing which shows or conveys messages of a sexual tone, sleewear, and  skin-tight outer materials such as sandex.

2.    The wearing of hats, or other head coverings, is not allowedcolor: black" inside the school building. Hair accessories worn to kee hair in lace, such as to hold a onytail in lace, is ermissible.

3.    Aroriate footwear is required and must be safe and aroriate for indoor and outdoor activity. Shoes with cleats, wheels, or sikesocks or sock-like footwear without shoeare not allowed.

4.    Clothing must not dislay (1) vulgar, violence, subversive, intimidation, or sexually suggestive language or image(2) romote or advertise roducts which students may not legally buy; such as alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs.; (3) obscene, defamatory, contains fighting words, or is disrutive; (4) comments or designs that harass, threaten, intimidate, or demean an individual or grou of individuals, because of sex, color, race, religion, handica, national origin or sexual orientation.

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In the event that any violation of the above requires reair, reinstallation of files

rograms, or relacement of comuter arts, etc. the student is resonsible for restitution.  Any violation of the above may result in discilinary action taken by the administration.

Attire which may be used as a weaon, or that may be considered dangerous to the wearer or other students is not allowed.  This includes but is not limited to chains, wallet chains, choke collars, collars with leashes attached, and items with sikes or studs. 

6.   The wearing of sunglasses.

7.    Clothing that can be attributed to or denote gang or grou membershi or affiliation will not be ermitted.

8.    Coats and jackets are not to be worn in the building. If students are cold, they may wear long sleeved shirts, sweatshirts, and/or sweaters.

SUMMER READING LIST  All students in grades 7-12 will be required to read an assigned title book for their grade level and a book of their choice from the summer reading list during the summer vacation.  The office will distribute a suggested reading list to all students in the sring. yes"  All area libraries and bookstores will have a coy of the list. On the first day of school (Setember 2005), homeroom will be extended so that students can write an essay on a question ertaining to the books they read. This question will be graded by the student’s English teacher and will be the first test grade in the student’s English course.

AENDIX—STATE LAWS/SCHOOL OLICIES GRANBY SCHOOL COMMITTEE SEXUAL HARASSMENT OLICY/COMLAINT ROCEDURE FOR STUDENTS  

PUROSE

To create for all Granby ublic School emloyees and students a work and study environment free of sexual harassment. yes" 

The Granby School Committee is committed to safeguarding the right of all ersons associated with the Granby ublic Schools, including students, emloyees, school committee members and volunteers, to harassment.  Therefore, the school committee condemns and rohibits all sexual harassment on its remises. yes" 

All individuals associated with this District, but not necessarily limited to the school committee, the administration, the staff, students, and members of the ublic while on camus are exected to conduct themselves at all times so as to rovide an atmoshere free from sexual harassment.  Any erson who engages in sexual harassment while acting as a member of the school community or while on school roerty will be in violation of this olicy.

Aroriate discilinary action, u to and including dismissal, will be taken in any instance where an emloyee violates this olicy.  Sexual harassment by a student will result in discilinary action u to and including exulsion. yes"  Sexual harassment by others will result in their being excluded from school remises or if it is required that they enter the remises, they will be accomanied by a School District reresentative at all times.

If the sexual harassment is criminal in nature the offense shall be reorted to the olice deartment.  If the sexual harassment requires the intervention of State social service or rotective agencies the roer authorities will be contacted.  In these circumstances the School’s attorney will be immediately contacted to give advice and guidance on how to rocess these actions with the aroriate authorities.

Any student, emloyee or individual acting legitimately on school roerty who believes that he or she has been subjected to sexual harassment should make a comlaint to his or her suervisor, teacher, guidance counselor or building rincial, so that aroriate action may be taken at once.

Management reresentatives are charged with the resonsibility of discouraging any sexually harassing behaviors within or outside of their areas of suervision.   This includes directly confronting the harasser when a management reresentative observes harassing behavior, and/or reorting the activity to the aroriate erson.

Comlaints will be investigated romtly and corrective action will be taken where aroriate.   No erson will suffer retaliation or intimidation as a result of using the internal comlaint rocedure.

A coy of this olicy and its accomanying regulations are osted in aroriate laces, and made available to individuals uon request.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT DEFINITION

Sexual harassment consists of unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or hysical conduct of a sexual nature where:

1.     Submission to such conduct is either exlicitly or imlicitly made a term or condition of a student’s education; OR

2.     Submission to or rejection of such conduct is used as a basis for education decisions affecting the student; OR

3.     Such conduct has the urose or effect of substantially interfering with a student’s educational erformance, or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive educational environment.

Sexual harassment may include, but is not limited to:

       a.     Assault, inaroriate touching, intentionally imeding movement, comments, gestures, or written communications of a suggestive or derogatory nature.

        b.     Continuing to exress sexual interest after being informed that the interest is unwelcome (Recirocal attraction between eers is not considered sexual harassment).

       c.     Within the educational environment, imlying or actually withholding grades earned or deserved, suggesting that a oor erformance evaluation will be reared, or suggesting that a scholarshi recommendation or college alication will be denied.

d.     Coercive sexual behavior to control, influence or affect educational oortunities, grades and/or the learning environment of a student.

Offering or granting favors or educational benefits, such as grades or recommendations, in exchange for sexual favors. Other sexual harassing behavior directed towards students, whether committed by management, staff, or students, is also rohibited.

COMLAINT ROCEDURE uINFORMAL ROCESS FOR STUDENTS

In determining whether an alleged incident normal" /bconstitutes sexual harassment, the Suerintendent of Schools will be vested with the authority and resonsibility of rocessing all sexual harassment comlaints in accordance with the rocedure outlined below, unless the Suerintendent is the subject of the comlaint.

a.     Any student of the district who believes that he/she has been subjected t sexual harassment is to reort the incident(s) to any administrator, Title IX Comliance Officer, or directly to the Suerintendent.  The administrator and/or Title IX Comliance Officer is to contact the Suerintendent.  A written reort of the comlaint will be made by the arty receiving the comlaint.   A searate file   system will be maintained, aart from the student’s ersonal records regarding these comlaints and as to all matters relating to the comlaints.  These files shall be ket in the Suerintendent’s Office.

b.     If the alleged harassment involves the Suerintendent of Schools or a School Committee member the Secretary of the School Committee will act as the Comliance Officer.

c.     If the alleged harassment involves the Secretary of the School Committee the Chairerson of the School Committee will act as the Comliance Officer.

d.     The Suerintendent and the Comliance Officer will look at the totality of the circumstances and the context in which the alleged incidents occurred. They will attemt to resolve the roblem by conferring with both arties in order to obtain a clear understanding of the facts.  All matters involving sexual harassment comlaints will remain confidential to the extent ossible.

e.     Students may be accomanied, at any stage of these roceedings, by a arent, guardian or reresentative of their choosing.  A arent will be notified by the Administration of the existence of any student’s reort of sexual harassment.

f.      The Comliance Officer will exlain each hase of the Informal and Formal  Comlaint rocess to a student who wishes to file a comlaint and will assist the student in the rocessing of the comlaint.

COMLAINT ROCEDURE

FORMAL ROCESS FOR STUDENTS/h3  

a.     A comlainant may file a formal comlaint immediately or may do so after the Suerintendent and the Comliance Officer’s effort to reach a settlement have roven unsuccessful.

b.     The comlaint will state clearly and concisely the comlainant’s descrition of the incident and it will also indicate any remedy sought. yes"  The comlaint must be signed by the comlainant.  The Suerintendent’s office will send the resondent a coy of the comlaint within five working days after it is received. A searate file system shall be maintained as to all matters relating to the comlaint.

c.     There will be two modes of resolution for formal comlaints.  A comlaint may be settled through mediation or through a hearing.   The Suerintendent and/or the Comliance Officer shall act as the mediators at this session.  If the comlainant and resondent agree to ursue mediation, a date mutually accetable to both arties will be set within ten working days.  If the mediation results in a mutually accetable agreement, coies of the agreement will be forwarded to both arties.  If the mediation does not result in an agreement, the case will be   forwarded to the Granby School Committee for a hearing.

d.              When a hearing is requested, the Comliance Officer will inform the school committee and the case will be heard at the next regularly scheduled meeting of the school committee ursuant to the rovisions of the Commonwealth’s Oen Meeting Law and/or M.G.L., ch.71,  s.42.

SCHOOL COMMITTEE HEARING

a.     The urose of the school committee hearing will be to determine whether the school system’s olicy on sexual harassment has been violated, and, if so, will recommend aroriate consequences for the violation.

b.     Both arties will be given a full and fair hearing.  The roceeding, although formal, is not a court roceeding and the Committee will not be bound by the roceeding and the Committee will not be bound by the rocedures and rules of evidence of a court of law.  In most instances, comlainants and resondents will be exected to seak for themselves, although, if desired, each arty may be accomanied by an advocate.

c.     The chairerson of the school committee will act as the residing officer of the hearing and may have counsel resent for uroses of assisting in the orderly conduct of the hearing and the questioning of witnesses.  The comlainant and the resondent will be asked to clarify the issues and to define the areas of disagreement.   To encourage a fair and focused hearing, the chairerson will notify the committee at the start of the roceedings about the oints of agreement and disagreement.  The Committee will hear testimony and consider whether the school committee olicy on sexual harassment has been violated, and if so, will recommend aroriate consequences.

d.     The chairerson of the committee will:

1.     ensure an orderly resentation of all evidence

2.     ensure that the roceedings are accurately recorded by means of a tae or stenograhic recording; and

3.     see that a decision is issued by the school committee in accordance with aragrah A, entitled “Decision of the Hearing Committee” in the following section of this olicy.

The committee will:

1.     conduct a fair and imartial hearing which ensures the rights of all parties involved;

2.     define issues of contention;

3.     receive and consider all relevant evidence which reasonable eole customarily rely uon in the conduct of serious business;

4.     ask relevant questions of the comlainant, resondent, and any witnesses who are needed to elicit information which may assist the committee in making a decision;

5.     ensure that the comlainant and resondent have full oortunity to   resent their claims orally or in writing, and to resent witnesses and evidence which may establish their claims.

DECISION OF THE HEARING COMMITTEE

a. After all the evidence, testimony, and written arguments have been resented, the committee will convene for deliberations to determine whether the charge that the school system’s olicy on sexual harassment has been violated.  If the committee finds after a roll call vote that the olicy has not been violated, that fact will be registered in the records of the hearing, and the written decision will be forwarded to the comlainant and resondent no later than fifteen working days after comletion of the hearing.

b. If the committee finds after a roll call vote that the charge of violating the school system’s olicy on sexual harassment has been substantiated, the hearing committee will reare findings and will determine a enalty for the resondent no later than fifteen working days after comletion of the hearing.

c. The enalty should reflect the severity of the harassment.   The enalties may include, but will not be limited to, any one or combination of the following: verbal admonition, written warning laced in the resondent’s ersonnel file or student record, robation, susension without ay, dismissal, demotion, removal from administrative duties within a deartment or dismissal; students may be subject to susension or exulsion roceedings following a finding that the olicy has been violated.  The committee may also make aroriate recommendations, such as rofessional counseling, and may recommend relief for the comlainant which reinstates and restores, as much as ossible, the aggrieved arty.

STATE LAW REGARDING HAZING  Massachusetts General Laws Chater 269

CH. 269, S.17. Crime of Hazing; definition; enalty Whoever is a rincial organizer or articiant in the crime of hazing, as defined herein, shall be unished by a fine of not more than three thousand dollars or by imrisonment in a house of correction for not more than one year, or both such fine and imrisonment.

The "hazing" as used in this section and in sections eighteen and nineteen, shall mean any conduct or method of initiation into any student organization, whether on ublic or rivate roerty, which willful or recklessly endangers the hysical or mental health of any student or other erson. Such conduct shall include whiing, beating, branding, forced calisthenics, exosure to the weather, forced consumtion of any food, liquor, beverage, drug or other substance, or any other brutal treatment or forced hysical activity which is likely to adversely affect the hysical health or safety of any such student or other erson, or which activity which is likely to adversely affect the hysical health or safety of any such student or other erson, or which subject such student or other erson to extreme mental stress, including extended derivation of slee or rest or extended isolation. Notwithstanding any other rovisions of this section to the contrary, consent shall not be available as a defense to any rosecution under this action.  Added by St. 1985, c.536; amended by St. 1987, c.665. Whoever knows that another erson is the victim of hazing as defined in section seventeen and is at the scene of such crime, shall, to the extent that such erson can do so without danger or eril to himself or others, reort such crime to an aroriate law enforcement official as soon as reasonably ractical.  Whoever fails to reort such crime shall be unished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars Added by St. 1985, c.536; amended by St. 1987, c.665.

CH. 269, S.19. Hazing statutes to be rovided; statement of Comliance and Disciline olicy Required.

Each institution of secondary education and each ublic and rivate institution of ost secondary education shall issue to every student grou, student team or student organization which is art of such institution or is recognized by the institution or ermitted by the institution to use its name or facilities or is known by the institution to exist as an unaffiliated student grou, student team or student organization, a coy of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen; rovided, however, that an institution's comliance with this section's requirements that an institution issue coies of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen to unaffiliated student grous, teams or organizations shall not constitute evidence of the institutions recognition or endorsement of said unaffiliated student grous, teams or organizations.

Each such grou, team or organization shall distribute a coy of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen to each of its members, lebes, ledges or alicants for membershi.  It shall be the duty of each such grou, team or organization, acting through its designated officer, to deliver annually, to the institution an attested acknowledgement stating that such grou, team or organization has received a coy of this section and said sections seventeen and eighteen, that each of its members, lebes, ledges, or alicants has received a coy of sections seventeen and eighteen,

and that such grou, team or organization understand and agrees to comly with the rovisions of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen.

Each institution of secondary education and each ublic or rivate institution of ost secondary education shall, at least annually, before or at the start of enrollment, deliver to each erson who enrolls as a full time student in such institution a coy of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen.

Each institution of secondary education and each ublic or rivate institution of ost secondary education shall file, at least annually, a reort with the regents of higher education and in the case of secondary schools, the board of education, certifying that such institution has comlied with its resonsibility to inform student grous, teams or organization and to notify each full time student enrolled by it of the rovisions of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen and also certifying that said institution has adoted a discilinary olicy with regard to the organizers and articiants of hazing, and that such olicy has been set forth with aroriate emhasis in the student handbook or similar means of communicating the institution's olicies to its students.   The board of regents and, in the case of secondary institutions, the board of education shall romulgate regulations governing the content and frequency of such reorts, and shall forthwith reort to the attorney general any such institution which fails to make such reort.  Added by St. 1985, c.536; amended by St.1987, c.665.

CIVIL RIGHTS AND SAFETY OLICY

It is the olicy of Granby Jr.–Sr. High School to rovide a safe and secure learning environment for all of its students without distinction based on race, religion, ethnicity, disability, gender, or sexual orientation. Discrimination, sexual and bias-motivated harassment, and violations of civil rights disrut the educational rocess and will not be tolerated.

Prohibited conduct will include by definition:

1.       Bias Incident means any act, including conduct or seech, directed at or which occurs to a erson or roerty because of actual or erceived race, religion, ethnicity, disability, gender, or sexual orientation. A bias incident may or may not be a criminal act.

2.      Bias Indicators are objective facts and circumstances, which suggest that an action was motivated in whole or in art by a articular tye of bias.

3.       Bias Motives recognized at MA law as causing hate crimes includes rejudice based on race, religion, ethnicity, disability, gender, or sexual orientation.

4.       Civil Rights Violations involve interfering by threats, intimidation, or coercion, with someone’s enjoyment of constitutional or statutory rights. Rights rotected against interference include non-discrimination in access to advantages and rivileges of a ublic school education. The term also covers bias related and sexual

list 4.5t"harassment and biased crimes, so the term is alied generically to any civil or criminal law infractions.

5.      Discrimination consist of actions taken against another(s) which treat them unequally because of race, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation or gender bias.

6.       Harassment consist of unwelcome verbal, written or hysical conduct targeting secific erson(s), which is sufficiently severe, ersistent, or ervasive to create an intimidating, hostile, humiliating, or offensive school environment, or substantially interfere with the rogress of a student’s education.

7.       Bias-Related Harassment will resent bias indicators, most commonly eithets: name-calling derogatory to a articular racial, religious, or sexual orientation grou:

8.       Sexual Harassment covers instances of hysical or verbal conduct of a sexual nature, not limited to but including sexual advances, which foster a hostile educational environment for the victim.

9.       Hate Crimes include any criminal acts to which recognized tyes of bias motives are an evident contributing factor. Criminal bias-motivated conduct entails, at a minimum, threats. Criminal conduct includes acts utting someone in fear of immediate hysical harm (assaults), and actual hysical violence (assault and battery), and grows most serious if a victim suffers any bodily injury. Reeated threatening or menacing actions like following someone can amount to the crime of stalking.

10.    Hostile Environment exists when a student has been or is subjected to threats, intimidation, or coercion by another (or others) or is reasonably in fear for his or her safety. Whether a school environment has become hostile must be evaluated based on the totality of the circumstances. Reeated instances of bias related and -size:

In the event that any violation of the above requires reair, reinstallation of files

rograms, or relacement of comuter arts, etc. the student is resonsible for restitution.  Any violation of the above may result in discilinary action taken by the administration.

sexual harassment can also create a hostile or intimidating environment if sufficiently severe. A hostile environment does not necessarily entail that a student exhibits quantifiable harm, such as a dro in grades.

11.    Stalking, a felony, consist of intentional conduct involving 1) 2 or more acts directed at a single erson, 2) which would cause an average erson substantial distress, 3) where the eretrator has made threats causing the targeted erson fear of death or injury.

Consequences for Violators

a. Non-discilinary corrective action:

otential civil rights violations can be addressed with stes that are not unitive in character, without the necessity of discilinary roceedings. These stes generally lie within the ordinary discretion of the rincials and school officials. Examles of non-discilinary actions that may be aroriate in some instances include counseling, assignment to articiate in a diversity awareness training rogram, searating offender and victim, arent conferences, and secial work assignments such as a comosition on civil rights-related subject.

b. Discilinary roceedings:

Violations of the civil rights of a student or school emloyee which are found to have occurred after a hearing warrant the imosition of sanctions u to and including susension and exulsion (for students), and susension and termination (for emloyees). Discilinary actions will be taken toward the goal of eliminating the offending conduct, reventing reoccurrence, and reestablishing a school environment conducive for the victim to learn. The school may consider comletion of a youth diversion rogram for student violators, standing alone or in conjunction with other discilinary actions, for violations of civil rights.

Commitment to Non-Retaliation

To secure the unimeded reorting of bias activity called for in this olicy, Granby ublic Schools will deal seriously with any and all threats or acts of retaliation for the good faith filing of a comlaint. Actual or threatened retaliation for the reorting of a civil rights matter constitutes a searate and additional discilinary infraction warranting corrective actions.

STATE LAW REGARDING EXULSION AND FELONY CHARGES Chater 71, Section 37/2

Notwithstanding the rovisions of section eighty-four and sections sixteen and seventeen of chater seventy-six:

    Uon the issuance of a criminal comlaint charging a student with a felony or uon the issuance of a felony delinquency comlaint against a student, the rincial or headmaster of a school in which the student is enrolled may susend such student for a eriod of time determined aroriate by said rincial or headmaster if said rincial or headmaster determines that the student's continued resence in school would have a substantial detrimental effect on the general welfare of the school. The student shall receive written notification of the charges and the reasons for such susension rior to such susension taking effect. The student shall also receive written notification of this right to aeal and the rocess for aealing such susension; rovided, however, that such susension shall remain in effect rior to any aeal hearing conducted by the suerintendent. The student shall have the right to aeal the susension to the suerintendent. The student shall notify the suerintendent in writing of his request for an aeal no later than five calendar days following the effective date of the susension. The suerintendent shall hold a hearing with the student and the student's arent or guardian within three calendar days of the student's request for an aeal. At the hearing the student shall have the right to resent oral and written testimony on his behalf, and shall have the right to counsel. The suerintendent shall have the authority to overturn or alter the decision of the rincial or headmaster, including recommending an alternate educational rogram for the student. The suerintendent shall render a decision on the aeal within five calendar days of the hearing. Such decision shall be the final decision of the city, town or regional school district with regard to the susension.

2) Uon a student being convicted of a felony or uon an adjudication or admission in court of guilt with resect to such a felon or felon delinquency, the rincial or headmaster of a school in which the student is enrolled may exel said student if such rincial or headmaster determines that the student's continued resence in school would have a substantial detrimental effect on the general welfare of the school. The student shall receive written notification of the charges and reasons for such exulsion rior to such exulsion taking effect. The student shall also receive written notification of his right to aeal and the rocess for aealing such exulsion; rovided, however, that the exulsion shall remain in effect rior to any aeal hearing conducted by the suerintendent. The student shall have the right to aeal the exulsion to the suerintendent. The student shall notify the suerintendent, in writing, of his request for an aeal no later than five calendar days following the effective date of the exulsion.

The suerintendent shall hold a hearing with the student and the student's arent or guardian within three calendar days of the exulsion. At the hearing, the student shall have the right to resent oral and written testimony on his behalf, and shall have the right to counsel. The suerintendent shall have the authority to overturn or alter the decision of the rincial or headmaster, including recommending an alternate educational rogram for the student. The suerintendent shall render a decision on the aeal within five calendar days of the hearing. Such decision shall be the final decision of the city, town, or regional school district with regard to the exulsion. Uon exulsion of such student, no school or school district shall be required to rovide educational services to the student.

TITLE IX Granby Jr.-Sr. High School does not exclude any student from articiating in its educational rogram and activities on the basis of sex.  The following rocedure is to be followed to file a grievance based on Title IX guidelines:

I:        A student or students of the Granby School District who feels he/she has a grievance under Title IX/622/504, shall first contact his/her teacher in writing for uroses of clarification of the roblem.  If not satisfied, he/she shall consult with the guidance deartment.  Thirdly, if still not satisfied, the rincial shall initially be consulted in writing.  If, after these initial stes have been taken and adjudication is still unsatisfactory, the Title IX Grievance Officer shall be notified in writing.   The Grievance Officer shall attemt to resolve the roblem and send a written answer to the student(s) within five (5) calendar days of the date of the meeting to discuss the roblem.

II:   If the resolution is unsatisfactory to the aggrieved individual(s) the grievance shall be again reduced to writing and resented to the Suerintendent of Schools within five (5) calendar days of receit of the written answer from the Grievance Officer.  The Suerintendent of Schools shall then have five (5) calendar days to arrange a meeting with the aggrieved individual(s) to resolve the difficulty. yes"   Following the meeting, the Suerintendent shall have five (5) days to submit his written decision to the aggrieved.

III:   If the decision of the Suerintendent and Grievance Officer does not resolve the roblem, the aggrieved may request a hearing before the School Committee within five (5) days after receiving the Suerintendent’s decision.  The Suerintendent shall then arrange for a meeting between the Committee and the aggrieved at the next regularly scheduled School Committee meeting.  The Committee shall render its decision in writing within five (5) calendar days after its meeting.

IV:   In the event no settlement is reached, then the grievance shall be submitted to the Director, Office for Civil Rights, Boston, Massachusetts for final resolution.

IDEA and MGL 71B  

These two laws constitute an educational "Bill of Rights" that makes sure children with disabilities receive individual rograms and the required services. A student must receive a comlete and comrehensive evaluation to determine if the student has a disability and is eligible for secial education and, if ineligible, to assist in determining aroriate secial education and related services that may b necessary. arents who have a concern about their child's develoment or have a susicion about a ossible disability may refer their child for an initial evaluation. Secial words need not be used in making a referral for an initial evaluation. Uon receit of such a request for an initial evaluation, the school district must send notice to the arent and must seek the arent's consent to conduct an evaluation. (A school district will rarely have occasion to refuse to conduct an initial evaluation and may do so only if the arent or other individual making the referral has no susicion of a disability or is not concerned about the student's develoment.) Where aroriate, the school district may also rovide the arent with information concerning other suortive services that may better suit a articular student's needs. However, a school district may not refuse to evaluate a student who has been referred for an evaluation as described above, on the basis of a re-referral rogram or in order to try other instructional suort activities or for any other reason. Additionally, the law rovides for eriodic reevaluations to ensure that the student is benefiting from and continues to require secial education. The arent's consent will always be required rior to these reevaluations.

Coies of the Regulations and arents' Rights brochure are available in the uil Services Office.

SECTION 504 OF THE REHABILITATION ACT OF 1973  

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is a broad civil rights law that rotects the rights of disabled individuals in rograms that receive federal funds.   A disability need only substantially limit one major life activity of an individual in order for that individual to become deemed a disabled erson.  In order for a disabled erson to be entitled to the rotection of Section 504, the erson must be a qualified, disabled erson.

The requirements and benefits of Section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act are the same, as a result of Title II of the ADA and its imlementing regulations.  Thus, this olicy also states any obligations of the school system under the ADA to deal with disabled students.

Under Section 504, the disability need not limit the student’s ability to make effective rogress in school in order for the student to be eligible for reasonable accommodations and/or auxiliary aids and servicerather, a qualified disabled erson is eligible for reasonable accommodations and/or auxiliary aids and services when he/she cannot fully articiate in the activities of, or fully receive the benefits of, the federally-funded entity without such reasonable accommodations and/or auxiliary aids or services.

The regular educators in the child’s school are resonsible for roviding the accommodations/auxiliary aids or services under the direction of the rincial of that school, since these children can make effective rogress in the regular classroom.

If a student is thought to have a disability under Section 504, he/she has a right to an evaluation, and a decision made concerning eligibility by ersons knowledgeable about the student.   The student also has a right to a lacement with his/her non-disabled eers (least restrictive environment) to the greatest extent ossible.  A written lan must be develoed which documents the identification of the disability which substantially limits a major life activity, the evaluation of the child and the accommodations and/or auxiliary aids/services which will be rovided to the child. b   

It is the olicy of the Granby ublic Schools to comly with all the relevant and alicable rovisions of Section 504.  Granby ublic Schools will not discriminate against its students because of a erson’s hysical or mental disability.  Granby ublic Schools will make reasonable accommodations wherever necessary for all qualified disabled students rovided that these accommodations and/or auxiliary aids/services are not a substantial burden, or do not alter the nature of the services

rograms, of the Granby ublic Schools.