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Purpose and Scope

The purpose of the Parent Code of Conduct is to provide a mutual understanding to all parents/guardians and visitors to our school about conduct expectations while on school property, at school district events and when interacting with District employees and/or students.

General Propositions

We expect parents/guardians and visitors to have a fundamental understanding and commitment to the following general propositions:

• Teachers, administrators and parents/guardians want all children to learn in a safe environment
• Teachers, administrators and parents/guardians must work together for the benefit of all students
• All parents/guardians and visitors, as well as all members of the school community, deserve to be treated with respect
• The school should be provided an opportunity to resolve issues of concern before public criticism.

Prohibited Behaviors

In order to provide a peaceful and safe school environment, the District prohibits the following behaviors by parents/guardians and visitors:

• Abusive, threatening, profane or harassing communication, either in person, by e-mail or text/voicemail/phone or other written or verbal communication
• Disruptive behavior that interferes or threatens to interfere with District operations, including the effective operation of a classroom, an employee’s office or duty station, a campus lobby, or school grounds, including sporting events, parking lots and car-pickup
• Threatening to do bodily harm to a District employee, visitor, fellow parent/guardian or student
• Threatening to damage the property of a District employee, visitor, fellow parent/guardian or student.
• Damaging or destruction of school property
• Excessive unscheduled campus visits, e-mails, text/voicemail/phone messages or other written or oral
  • School staff and administration may not always be immediately available to speak with you. The only way to ensure that you are able to speak with a staff member or administrator is to schedule an appointment. Staff and administrators have a practice of attempting to return all phone calls/e-mails within 24 hours with great success. Your calls and visits will be responded to consistent with this practice if someone is not immediately available to speak with
• Defamatory, offensive or derogatory comments regarding the school or school staff made publicly to others.
• Any concerns that you may have regarding these matters must be made through the appropriate channels so they can be dealt with fairly, appropriately, and effectively for all
• This includes use of any social media medium, including but not limited to: websites, blogs, wikis, social networking sites such as Google+, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr

Consequences

Depending upon the severity of the incident, parents/guardians or visitors may be ejected from or otherwise banned from campus and participation in school-sponsored events under the criminal trespass laws. In situations involving lesser infractions or where remediation is viable, a warning will be provided, either verbal or in writing, prior to the filing of trespass and issuance of a formal ban. Should a parent/guardian or visitor fail to heed the direction issued in the warning, a ban or other restrictions designed to deter the conduct will follow. No restriction, however, will prevent the parent/guardian from working collaboratively with the District to meet the child’s educational needs, nor will a parent/guardian be excluded from a child’s IEP meeting.

Specific procedures for campus warning and ban decisions can be found in policy GKA (LEGAL) and GKA (LOCAL), as well as the BISD Student Handbook, page 84.