Discipline referrals, lunch detention, Saturday work detail, Saturday homework detention, Suspensions, and Expulsions Defined Students whose behavior is not in line with school and/or county policies will receive written disciplinary referrals. Parents are responsible for monitoring their student’s discipline and should request a parent conference if their student receives seven or more referrals. Ten referrals may result in recommendation for long term suspension. Students who are assigned to lunch detention are required to complete school assignments in a designated location during their lunch period. Failure to attend lunch detention may result in one day out-of-school suspension. Saturday Work detail/academy is defined as an assigned specific amount of hours (two or four) that a student spends at school on a Saturday morning focusing on academics and/or providing community service. Failure to serve Saturday Work detail may result in two days of out-ofschool suspension. Suspensions are defined in NC 115C-391 as a denial of the right of a student to attend school for a period not to exceed 10 days. There are two types of suspensions, in-school suspension and out-of-school suspension. Expulsion is defined as the denial of the right of the student to attend school for the remainder of the current school year. 1) In-School Suspension (ISS) and/or Lunch Detention are defined as an assignment of a specified number of periods or days spent in the inschool suspension classroom. During this assignment, the following rules will apply: a) The student will spend his/her entire period or school day in a highly structured classroom. The ISS teacher will notify the student’s classroom teachers of his/her assignment to ISS and work with the teachers to get assignments. When assignments are completed, the ISS teacher will return them to the classroom teachers. b) ISS/lunch detention students eat lunch with other ISS/lunch detention students, totally isolated from the general student population. c) Students will only be allowed to go to the restroom at assigned times. There will be no morning or afternoon breaks. d) They must spend their entire assignment in ISS; there will be no opportunity to earn “time off” for good behavior.
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