Student Activities
Summit Christian School offers its students a wide range of student activities to enhance their education. The following information is a representative list of activities available.

Disciplinary System
As a Christian school, we seek to provide an environment conducive to the spiritual and academic growth and development of our students. We believe that students should avoid practices which cause the loss of sensitivity to the spiritual needs of the world and of the Christian’s physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. We therefore insist upon certain standards of conduct, trusting the Lord will use this system to establish in the student’s heart true Christian character.

Elementary
In our Elementary, our well-disciplined classrooms are maintained by our teachers through a cooperative partnership with their parents. Communication is the key to this relationship with our families. A required parent-teacher conference at the beginning of each semester is used to establish a solid foundation for the teacher to build upon. This cooperative relationship helps each student to reach their greatest potential.

Elementary Discipline - Teacher Procedures
1. Positive interventions
2. Classroom modification:
    a. The student will be alerted to the proper behavior expectations.
    b. The student’s desk will be moved if necessary.
    c. The student will be given special activities to encourage a positive change.
    d. Other motivation techniques: stickers, M&M’s, check marks, etc.
    e. The students will be given positive verbal comments to highlight correct behavior.
     f.  After a reasonable number of interventions and consequences, the student will write a note
        to their parent stating their behavior. The note will be signed and returned.
    g. The parent will be expected to work closely with their teacher to help their child reach
         their behavioral goals.
    h. The teacher will send notes home when they have a concern about a behavioral issue:
    i. Notes will be approved by the Elementary Office.
       ii. All notes must be signed by the parent or guardian and returned to the teacher.
       iii. Parents will receive a note for students who do not do class work in a timely manner.
i. The teacher will call the parent when the note going home has not produced a
   positive change in the student’s behavior.
j. All parent contacts concerning a student’s behavior will be documented and filed.
      i. Notes sent home to be signed and returned
      ii. Phone call to parent
      iii. Parent conferences
k. The teacher will give a time out at recess that will be age appropriate: ie, If the child is 6, time out is 6 min.
l. The teacher will assign an after school detention (grades 2-5 ):
      i. 45 minute time period.
      ii. The student will have an assignment appropriate to behavior issue.
      iii. There will be a $5.00 charge.
m. The teacher will send the student to the office with an Elementary Disciplinary Referral.
n. Parent/Teacher Conference to discuss disciplinary concerns.

When a child does not do their class work
1. If incomplete because of behavior issues:
   a. The teacher will communicate to parent the reason for the incomplete: Talking, out of seat, playing, etc.
   b. The first time can be a phone call. The second time is a conference.
        i. The teacher will explain to the parent that the child must complete the work for homework.
         ii. The teacher will explain that if it is not returned the next day, it will be a zero. (This explanation
             should include the reality that their child might not be eligible for the Honor Roll at Report Card
              time.)
c. After the above steps have been met:
    i. The teacher will discuss the problem with an Administrator.
    ii. The teacher will set up a parent conference with an Administrator.
    iii. Possible academic probation may occur. (Administrative discretion)

Infractions that would automatically result in a disciplinary referral and possible suspension:
1. Fighting, bullying (verbal or physical)
2. Talking back or arguing with teachers or staff
3. Disturbing class by throwing objects in any manner
4. Running, shoving, pushing or other rowdy behavior in the classroom, hallways, bathrooms, or
    outdoors that result in an injury
5. Displaying disrespectful behavior or making disrespectful noises or comments to faculty members,
    staff or other students
6. Inappropriate language or gestures
7. Defacing walls, desks, or other school property
8. Drawings or writings of an obscene nature
9. Cheating, Plagiarism (2nd – 5th Grades)
10. Weapons that are brought to school (without prior administrators permission)
11. Drugs

Infractions that would result in a disciplinary referral after a parent teacher conference:
1. Continually disobedient in class
2. Continually talking without permission
3. Continually leaving seat without permission

Administrative procedures for disciplinary referrals:
Before an administrator moves from one step from another, every effort will be made to work with the parent and the teacher to help the child correct his/her behavior.
1. First Step: The office will take disciplinary action to suit the infraction and the teacher will send a note
     home notifying the parent of the office visit and the assigned action.
2. Second Step: The office will call the parent to inform them of the incident and to discuss appropriate
     disciplinary measures.
3. Third Step: The student will remain in the office and the parent will be summoned to come and talk to the
     child before the child is allowed back in the classroom.
4. Fourth Step: The student will remain in the office and the parent will be summoned to school to
    pick-up and remove the child from school for the remainder of the day.
5. For more serious infractions, the above steps may not be followed; instead, immediate suspension
    could result.

Discipline Probation: When a child has reached this step, the parent will then be informed of our 1, 2, 3, 4 Suspension Policy. This means that their behavior has reached the disruptive level and interferes with the quality of the education of the entire class. This allows the parent and child to work with the teacher/administration to correct their inappropriate behavior. The fourth pink slip will result in an automatic suspension.

PLEASE NOTE: The discipline and academic files will be reviewed often to determine if a student will be placed on discipline or academic probation or, in more acute cases, asked to be withdrawn from Summit Christian School.

Academic and Discipline probation will be determined by the Administration when deemed appropriate.

The Middle and High School discipline approach is based on the philosophy of gearing each young person to be more conformed to the image of Christ and to be restored to full fellowship with his / her Lord, school, and peers.

Student Pledge
Each student must be in accord with what Summit Christian School stands for and be willing to sign a Pledge Card signifying their cooperative effort. Both on and off campus, students are expected to maintain high Christian principles.

Students must willingly state that they want to attend Summit Christian School and will do their best to cooperate with SCS in accomplishing its objectives for their educational experience.

Inappropriate conduct, evidence of immoral activity or slander of SCS and/or its employees on personal websites (ie, MySpace.com, FaceBook, YouTube, etc.) can be addressed by the administration.

The Student Pledge must be signed each year by every student in grades six through twelve. If a student at any time feels he has a problem with any of these statements, he is encouraged to seek the help of a teacher, counselor, or administrator.

Disciplinary levels of action
Teacher or Administratively Assigned:
• Meeting with student
• Parent communication
• Lunch detention
Administratively Assigned Only:
• After school detention - (incurs a $5 Fee)
• Saturday detention - (incurs a $25 Fee 8:00 AM - noon)
• In-school suspension (all work due starting at only 80%, automatic deduction of 20%)
• Out-of-school suspension (all work due starting at only 50% credit; 2nd offense “0” for all grades)
• Expulsion

It is very important to the discipline structure that we understand that we need to measure certain other criteria as we levy discipline.  These criteria should not cause us to be inconsistent, but rather allow for moments of ministry that may change a life forever, not just for a class period.
• Behavior vs. Attitude
• Initiated vs. Provoked
• Repentant vs. Defiant vs. Denial
• Eye Witness vs. Circumstantial Evidence

Enforcing Discipline:
Teacher Managed Discipline
1. Flagrant offenses go directly to office.
2. Teachers are encouraged to begin all discipline (when afforded) with a verbal encouragement NOT warning. 
3. Teachers should set a student conference as the second step (when afforded).  Closure is given to the conference when the teacher contacts the parent and “briefs” them to the situation, as well as the next step to be taken if behavior does not change. 
4. Teachers should follow a conference with a lunch detention or after school detention. When an after-school detention is assigned, the student must meet with the teacher and Dean.  This will be documented and filed.

Teacher Managed discipline infractions:
In class...
• Unexcused Tardy (per 9 weeks) 3 = Lunch Detention, 4 = After-School Detention, 5 = Saturday Detention
• Poor attitude
• Not prepared for class (books, notebooks, supplies, missing homework)
• Talking
• General disruptive behavior (passing notes, leaving seat without permission, horseplay, rudeness to classmates, etc.)
• Non-compliant (not taking notes, food/drinking, dress code, sleeping, inappropriate minor signs of affection).
• Food/Gum: 1st- $5 fine. Each additional offense: $5 fine and a detention.
• Radio, I-Pod, cell phones, CD and DVD players may not be used during the school day.  They may be used while on campus before and after school ONLY.  They will be taken if seen or heard.  Students may retrieve them from the office at the first offense; must be retrieved by parents after the second and additional offenses (see Electronics).
• No food or drink in classrooms; 1st offense- $5 fine. Each additional offense: $5 fine and a detention.
Outside Class
• All of the above (In-class infractions)
• Running in halls
• Throwing objects
• Cutting across or through bushes and flower beds
• Minor defacing of school property and/or slamming doors, kicking lockers, touching ceiling tiles,
   rocking drink machines, littering (to include lunch area), etc.
• Speeding or irresponsible use of a vehicle which will also include fines of $25 and driving privileges may be revoked.
• Littering will receive an after school clean up detention.

Administrative Managed Discipline
When students have received three (3) detentions in any 9-week period, they will be called to the Dean’s office and they will immediately be put on notice that any other detentions assigned during the remainder of that period will result in either a Saturday detention or an in-school suspension.  The overall detention record will be coordinated by the Dean of Student Affairs Office. Dean-managed discipline infractions (including Saturday detention, suspensions, and recommended expulsion) are the following:
• Flagrant disrespect
• Flagrant disobedience/rebellion/negative influence
• Swearing or inappropriate language/gesturing
• Out of uniform or wearing immodest attire
• Cheating/Plagiarism
• Harassment in any form
• Skipping class
• Lying
• Fighting/bullying
• Threats of serious violence toward people or property
• Use/possession of alcohol, tobacco, drugs, or weapons
• Inappropriate relations or displays of affection (kissing, excessive hugging, etc.)

The quickest route to expulsion is a continued bad attitude or repeated offenses.  A student may be put on behavioral probation at the discretion of the Administration at any time during the school year.  While on probation a student can be suspended or expelled for any minor or major infraction they commit.

Appeals Process
Any student or parent may appeal a disciplinary action when they exercise the three steps of appealing to spiritual authority…

To appeal a disciplinary action, the parent/guardian must contact their appropriate principal. The principal will then bring the request before the Headmaster and Appeals Committee.

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Disciplinary Probation
A student will be placed on disciplinary probation if the Administration decides that this probation is necessary during any part of the grading period due to disciplinary reasons. Reasons for disciplinary probation include:

Notification of Probation
The student and parents will be notified by letter or conference that the student is being placed on probation. Specific reasons will be given for the probation and details cited relative to what behavior goals the student must meet and what changes are deemed necessary.

Length of Probation and Evaluation
Length of probation is determined by the Administration. If, after the period determined, good improvement is evidenced, the student is then removed from probation. If progress is not sufficient, the student may be recommended for expulsion or further probation. Parents of students on probation must remember that if expected improvement is not achieved, expulsion is a real possibility. The Administration and teachers involved will determine the progress of the student. The final decision of expulsion will be made by the Administration.

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There is usually a great deal of difficulty, emotional trauma, misunderstanding and hardship that comes when a student is accused of using or possessing alcoholic beverages or drugs or of committing a sexually immoral act. Summit Christian School, as can be seen by the rules, takes a strong stand against these things with the hope that students will learn that they do not need to experiment with such things for any reason. It is possible that students involved in such incidents will be suspended or expelled at the discretion of the Administration. Each case will be dealt with individually and the maturity level of the student, their past disciplinary record at the school, and the severity of the act which they are involved with, will be taken into consideration for the decision.

The purpose of action taken by SCS is thought of as disciplinary rather than punitive. We want students to grow and learn to live a life that is Biblically moral and acceptable. Our past experience has shown that when incidents of a serious nature occur, no one, including the school’s Administration, teachers, students, or parents come out the winner. It is the desire of the Administration that parents (1) work to help their students develop self-control and (2) cooperate fully with us in these matters so that these difficult situations can be avoided.

Penalties For Drug Abuse
The following penalties for students in our school regarding possession/use and distribution of drugs shall be uniformly enforced. For purposes of clarification, the following definitions of terms are presented and apply to enrolled students at SCS:

Possession/Use - Having on one’s person or within one’s personal property or under one’s control by placement and/or knowledge of the whereabouts or reasonable belief that one has assimilated, or appears, in the judgment of appropriate school officials, to be under the influence of any controlled, uncontrolled, unauthorized prescription and O.T.C. substance including, but not limited to, those substances listed in Chapter 893, Florida Statutes, and including alcohol and tobacco, while on or off school property or when under the jurisdiction and control of Summit Christian School. Students in possession of legitimate prescriptions in their names and following appropriate guidelines of the school for medications are exempt from this directive.

Distribution - The transfer of any controlled, uncontrolled, unauthorized prescription and O.T.C. substances including, but not limited to, those substances listed in Chapter 893, Florida Statutes, prescribed medications, and including alcohol and tobacco, to another person, with or without the exchange of money or consideration of other valuables when under jurisdiction of SCS, or off campus. Under this directive, possession is included in any case of distribution.

Legal Action - Notification of drug infraction (involvement, suspected involvement, use, possession, or distribution) will be made to the proper law enforcement office.

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Definitions:
A. Tardiness: Arrival at school after 8:05 AM and before 10:30 AM.

Unexcused Absence
If an absence is unexcused, the student will be required to make up the work, but a grade of zero will be averaged into the total grade. If a test is missed, no credit will be given (a zero) but the student will have to make up the test. If a project is due on the date of an unexcused absence, it will be a zero.

Tardies To School In The Morning
Parent notes or phone calls are required anytime a student is late to school in the morning. If the student drives to school, the parent will be notified of the tardy. If a student is tardy more than ten (10) days in a semester, a doctor’s note is required to excuse all days over the original ten (10). Unexcused tardies will receive a zero for all work missed. Excessive tardies will place the student in danger of failing the first period class. The Administration will determine what is excused/unexcused. All notes and calls must state the reason for the tardy.

Tardies To Class
Individual classroom teachers will keep records of tardies to their classes. These will be determined excused or unexcused by the teacher. Excessive tardies will result in disciplinary action.

In the elementary, after accumulating more than six unexcused tardies, lunch detention will be administered for grades 1-3 and after school detention for grades 4-5.

Leaving Campus
Please keep early dismissals to a minimum. It is important that your student is in attendance from 8:00AM-3:00PM each day. Parents must pick up their students from the appropriate office and sign them out for all early dismissals. DO NOT go directly to the classrooms. All releases for doctors or other appointments must be handled in the school offices. A student must turn in a note of explanation from his parents to the office on the morning of the appointment day. A parent (or one previously designated by a parent) must sign the student out in the school office. No student may leave campus without parental permission and without permission from the Administration. A student must bring a doctor’s note with time and signature upon return to school and must sign-in at the school office.

Make-Up Work - All Absences
When a student is absent, he should work carefully with the teacher to get the work made up as soon as possible, but at least within twice the amount of time which was missed. However, such work is the responsibility of the student, not the teacher. When an absence is excused, the student shall receive full credit for make-up work unless it is turned in past the deadline stated. Grade books are closed at the end of the nine (9) weeks. Work or tests assigned prior to the absence, which fall due the date of the absence or the following day, should be turned in or taken the day the student returns to school. If a student is present when a test is assigned but absent between the time assigned and the test date, yet returns the day of the test, he will be expected to take the test. An exception to this policy would have to be made at the discretion of the Administration