Code of Student Conduct - Student - Parent / Legal Guardian Discipline Card

Student Pamphlet
A Summarized Version of Students' Responsibilities, Expectations, and Discipline

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Student's Name

Student-Parent/Legal Guardian
Discipline Card

This card is designed to help you understand the expectations for doing your part to maintain our safe school environment.

Students and parents/legal guardians are encouraged to discuss the rules, regulations, and expectations found in the Code of Student Conduct. After your review and discussion, please sign and return the card to your student's school.

As a student in Norfolk Public Schools, I will:

• Accept the responsibility for my own conduct.
• Respect the rights of others and expect my rights to be respected.
• Follow the directions of all authorized school personnel.
• Make attendance to school/classes a high personal priority.
• Expect the school to take appropriate disciplinary action with me when I clearly violate school rules and regulations.
• Accept my responsibility for doing my part to keep the school safe and clean.

Norfolk Public Schools recognizes that parents/legal guardians must play a vital role in the education of their children. The Commonwealth of Virginia has mandated this parental involvement in the Code of Virginia section 22.1-279.3 entitled Parental Responsibility and Involvement Requirements. This law states that each parent of a student enrolled in a public school has a duty to assist the school in enforcing the standards of student conduct and attendance in order that education may be conducted in an atmosphere free of disruption and threat of persons or property, and supportive of individual rights. Failure to comply may result in criminal and civil penalty.

I have reviewed the Student Code of Conduct Pamphlet with my child and recognize my responsibility to assist Norfolk Public Schools in enforcing the system's code of student conduct.

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I have read the Code of Student Conduct and will follow Norfolk Public Schools' rules and regulations.

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NOTE: By signing this statement of receipt, parents and guardians are not deemed to waive, but to expressly reserve, their rights protected by the constitutions of the United States or the Commonwealth, and parents retain the right to express disagreement with any school's or school division's policies or decisions.

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