Discipline Office

Welcome to the 2023-2024 school year. If you have any questions regarding discipline, please contact our Student Services Manager, Ms. Nelson, by phone at 671-4935.

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Fessenden takes pride in being a school that focuses on character education as well as academics. We focus on positive behavior rather than the negative. The positive actions of students are rewarded and, as a result, we have a school that often serves as a model for others to follow.

From time to time, it becomes necessary to discipline children for misbehavior. All teachers are responsible for putting in place a classroom management procedure that will enhance the opportunity for learning to take place for all students.

Fessenden Big 3 Rules to Follow:

Fessenden Big 3 Rules

Students at the Lunch TableStudents Eating LunchStudents getting a Tray Lunch

LUNCH ROOM CONDUCT

There is no place where students reveal their manners or reflect the training they have received at home more conspicuously than in the lunchroom. We urge all students to use the cafeteria as a pleasant place to talk quietly, relax and enjoy their lunch.

We believe the following guidelines will help:

  1. Raise your hand if you need something.
  2. Talk softly to others at your table.
  3. Absolutely no talking when the lights are off.
  4. Follow dismissal directions.
  5. Always obey the lunchroom assistants.
  6. For health reasons, food may not be shared.
  7. Students who bring lunch from home are encouraged to bring a nutritious and filling meal. The cafeteria does not provide candy or carbonated drinks for students and parents are asked not to include these items in their child’s lunchbox.
  8. Please pay for lunches, extra milk, or juice in the morning before classes begin.

Students Posing with Water BottleStudents Sharing Lunch

INTERVENTIONS

The following interventions will be used to correct student behavior:

  1. Verbal correction
  2. Private conference with student
  3. Change seat
  4. Behavior contract
  5. Parent contact
  6. Refer to guidance
  7. Time out
  8. Conference with Dean

NOTE: Teachers are not limited to nor required to use all steps before writing a discipline referral.

REFERRAL TO DEAN’S OFFICE

A student’s failure to respond to the attempts by the teacher and parents to change or correct misconduct will result in a discipline referral being written and the student sent to the Dean’s office. Fessenden will follow the Marion County Code of Student Conduct for Elementary Schools when a child is sent to the office for disciplinary reasons.

NO TOLERANCE BEHAVIORS

  1. Fighting
  2. Blatant disrespect
  3. Drugs, weapons, alcohol
  4. Willful disobedience/defiance