PARENT COOPERATION
Parents/guardians are required to cooperate fully with the school in all of its policies, rules and regulations. By enrolling their student at Bishop Alemany High School, parents have chosen to entrust their child to the care of professionals who have the student’s best interest as a primary concern.
The education of a student is a partnership between the parents or guardians and the school. Just as the parent has the right to withdraw a child if desired, the school administration has the right to require the withdrawal of a student if the administration determines that the partnership is irretrievably broken.
California State Law states that it is a misdemeanor for any person, parent or guardian to upbraid, insult, or verbally abuse any member of the school administration, faculty, or staff in the performance of their duties on or off school premises.
CODE OF CHRISTIAN CONDUCT FOR STUDENTS AND PARENTS/GUARDIANS
Students can best receive a quality, morally based education if students, parents/guardians, and school officials work together. Normally, these parties can resolve their differences. In some rare instances, however, the school may find it necessary, in its discretion, to require parents/guardians to withdraw their child.
As an express condition of enrollment, students and parents/guardians shall follow standards of conduct that are consistent with the Christian principles of the school, as determined by the school in its discretion. These principles include but are not limited to any policies or procedures set forth in the school's parent/student handbook.
These Christian principles include but are not limited to:
● Parents/guardians are expected to work courteously and cooperatively with the school to assist the student in meeting the academic, moral, and behavioral expectations of the school.
● Students and parents/guardians may respectfully express their concerns about the school and its personnel. However, they may not do so in a way that is discourteous, scandalous, rumor-driven, disruptive, threatening, hostile, or divisive.
● In a place where a school employee is required to be in the course of his or her duties, any parent/guardian or other person whose conduct materially disrupts class work or extracurricular activities or involves substantial disorder may be guilty of a misdemeanor. This statement does not apply to any otherwise lawful employee-concerted activity, including but not limited to picketing and distributing handbills.
● Any parent/guardian or other person could risk his or her child's continuation in school if he or she insults or abuses the Principal or any teacher in the presence of students, parents/guardians, or other school personnel while on school premises, public sidewalks, public streets, other public ways adjacent to school premises, or at some other place if the Principal or teacher is required to be there in connection with assigned school activities.
These expectations for students and parents/guardians include but are not limited to all school-sponsored programs and events (e.g., extended care, athletics, and field trips).
The school reserves the right to determine, in its discretion, when conduct is severe enough to warrant immediate action without warning and/or without an intermediate step short of withdrawal.
DISRUPTION OR DISORDER BY PARENTS, GUARDIANS, OR OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS
Any parent/guardian or other person who materially disrupts class work or extracurricular activities in a place where a school employee is required to be in the course of his or her duties may be guilty of a misdemeanor and risks the continuation of their child in the school. This statement does not apply to any otherwise lawful employee concerted activity, including but not limited to, picketing and the distribution of handbills. Any parent or guardian or other family member who insults or abuses any school personnel risks their child’s continuation in the school.
Any parent/guardian, or other person who insults or abuses the Principal or any teacher in the presence of other school personnel, students or parents and at a place which is on school premises or public sidewalks, streets, or other public ways adjacent to school premises or at some other place if the Principal or teacher is required to be at such other place in connection with assigned school activities, risks the continuation of their child in the school.
RECOMMENDED TRANSFER RESULTING FROM PARENTAL ATTITUDE
Under normal circumstances a student is not to be deprived of a Catholic education on grounds relating to the actions/attitudes of parents; it is recognized, however, that a situation could arise in which the uncooperative or disruptive attitude of parent/guardians as described above might so diminish the effectiveness of the education process that continuation of the student in the school may be impossible.
In such a case, it is imperative that the opinion of the Principal regarding the practical impossibility be sustained from a pastoral point of view. The regulations governing recommended transfer would then be applicable.
