EMMETT O’BRIEN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL

RESPECT POLICY

RESPECT IS THE CORNERSTONE OF ALL OUR INTERACTIONS AND BEHAVIORS.

WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE DIGNITY AND WORTH OF ONE ANOTHER, AND STRIVE NEVER TO DIMINISH ANOTHER BY OUR CONDUCT OR OUR ATTITUDES.

PART OF OUR MISSION IS : To prepare students to live and work in a complex and interdependent society. To acknowledge diversity and commonalities and build  a caring community by practicing hospitality, civility and respect.

WHY WE NEED A COURSE OF ACTION: Emmett O’Brien is a community which dedicates itself to the safety and well-being of its citizens and which recognizes that human dignity is the basis for all our relationships and growth.
 
DEFINITION OF MISCONDUCT: Any physical, spoken or written act of abuse, violence, harassment, intimidation, extortion, the use of vulgarity, cursing, making remarks of a personally destructive nature toward any other person, and any restriction or prevention of free movement of an individual. This prohibition applies whether the act is deliberate, intentional or unintentional or is directed toward an individual or group regarding race, color, creed, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, political or religious ideology. Federal law and Connecticut State rules and regulations will apply.

CORRECTIVE ACTION:

• Discipline file entry, parent meeting/notification and counseling; detention(s); completion of tolerance educational assignment 
• In-school suspension, short or long-term suspension will result for those that repeatedly offend;
• The police may be contacted; charges may be filed.
  
  Note: The severity of the offense dictates the consequence. These expectations apply to all facets of school life.
  Adapted from the The Respect Policy of the Mukilteo, Wash., School District, as seen on Tolerance.org.