[div class="excerpts"]The Handbook contains a number of guidelines addressing discipline, including demerits, detention·s, in-school’ suspension, and out-of-school suspension:
Demerits;· which accumulate by trimester, constitute the lowest level of discipline.
Infractions such as fighting, truancy, stealing, and harassment or threatening behavior result in 5 demerits.
When a student accumulates 10 demerits in one trimester, he receives a detention.
When a student accumulates 20 demerits, he receives a ·second detention.
30 demerits result in a third detention, plus an in-school suspension.
Further problems in a trimester “can lead to an out-of-school suspension”.
It appears to be a quote of some article(?) that grabbed several points from the school handbook, pages 15 and 16. http://www.stgabeschool.org/incs/2014-15%20Handbook.pdf
However, what is not included is the information from pages 18 and 19 on bullying; its definition and consequences.
BULLYING
Bullying is the deliberate and often repeated attempt to intimidate, embarrass or harm another
person.
Bullying in the school setting comes in many forms, with verbal taunting or physical intimidation as
the primary actions of those who bully. Sometimes bullying is a one on one situation while other
times it is a group to group dynamic. In today's culture we also need to be aware of cyber bullying
which often is manifested by e-mail messaging, text messaging, or social media.
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Bullying will not be tolerated and consequences <sic> will be taken against the offending party or parties
when proven. Consequences can run the range of a parent/student conference with a teacher or
administrator to expulsion from school. The gravity of the situation or the event will dictate the
severity of the consequences.
In summary, bullying in any form is not acceptable at St. Gabriel Consolidated School.
Consequences will occur in degrees based upon the severity of the event. It is our duty as
Christians to avoid situations which lend themselves to bullying, to practice peaceful ways to
resolve conflict and to report suspected acts of bullying if witnessed by students, staff or parents.
Fortunately, the case has been sealed as containing sensitive information. I can't confirm what you've received from the mother nor what it actually in the case files. BTW, you've a typo in the case number; Al501513. It should be A1501513. (I hate finding typos on my web pages so I generally assume others do to.)
Now, based on your rather interesting form of reporting, I'll take a pass on any further research into the reliability, accuracy, and comprehensiveness of your reporting.
Have a great day.
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