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Nobody?not even the greatest teacher or greatest school in the world?can learn for you: you as the student must take primary responsibility for your own education. To be a successful student at NAIS requires you to meet certain standards in three areas: attendance, behavior, and class work.
ATTENDANCE
It is difficult to learn if you are not in school. Your success at NAIS will depend, therefore, in large part on your being here?on time?on a consistent basis. Be aware that excessive absences can lead to disciplinary action and even expulsion .
DRESS CODE
Your personal appearance in school demonstrates your seriousness about your education, your school, and yourself. Because of this fact, you should be wearing a full, clean, and ironed uniform EVERY day. Other aspects of your appearance (hair styles, accessories, etc.) should also be appropriate to an academic setting. We value your individuality, but we need you to express that individuality through your talents, schoolwork, ideas, and personality?not make-up, unapproved clothing, or vandalized uniforms. Breaking the dress code of the school will result in disciplinary action, including possibly being sent home to change your clothes.
BEHAVIOR
What follows are the general guidelines for behavior in our school. Please note that individual teachers and departments are free to develop their own specific discipline plans for their subjects. Although these plans may be more detailed than the school guidelines below, they will not be contrary to any of rules set forth here. Be aware that breaking rules?both those of teachers and the school as a whole?will result in serious consequences, which include, but are not limited to, in-school detention, suspension from school, grade reductions, and expulsion. As always, final word on questions of discipline and consequences for inappropriate behavior rests with the school administration.
• You are to follow all classroom, bus, library, and lab rules and regulations at all times.
• You are expected to show responsibility for your own learning by having the required textbooks and supplies ready on a daily basis at the start of each subject.
• You should always be orderly, cooperative, responsive to your teachers, and fully engaged in class activities.
• Shouting and running in the school is prohibited: if you must shout or run, please do it outdoors during your break.
• Mobile phones are not allowed in school and will be confiscated. For emergencies, they can be kept with the school supervisor.
• Drugs, alcohol, and smoking are strictly prohibited.
• You must, at all times, show respect for the personal space, dignity, and safety of others?whether students, teachers, school staff, or guests. Foul and disrespectful language will never be tolerated.
• You are expected to demonstrate a sense of pride in your school by not littering, either in classrooms, on our outside buses, or anywhere else on school grounds. You will also refrain from damaging or otherwise defacing school property.
• Students are expected to be honest: cheating and plagiarism, for instance, will not be tolerated
• Any kind of bullying or threatening behavior directed at fellow students is utterly unacceptable. Fighting and violence will result in severe consequences and may, indeed, qualify as a Catastrophic Rule Breach (see below.)
CATASTROPHIC RULE BREACHES
Unfortunately, there may come a time when a student breaks NAIS rules or expectations in a manner so offensive, dangerous, or otherwise unacceptable that drastic action is required to guarantee that such behavior never occurs again. We hope this never happens, but students should be aware that exceptionally severe lapses in judgment and behavior can result in swift and serious consequences, including immediate expulsion.
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