2008-2009 CALENDAR
August 11-15 Teacher In-service
August 18 First Day for Students
September 1 Labor Day
October 17 End of 1st 9 weeks (44 days)
October 28 Parent -Teacher Conferences
November 13-14 AEA Teacher Conference
November 26-28 Thanksgiving Holidays
December 19 End of 2nd 9 weeks (40 days)
December 22-January 5 Christmas Holidays
January 19 Martin
Luther King, Jr.
February 16 President’s Day Holiday
March 13 End of 3rd 9 weeks (47 days)
March 19 Parent-Teacher Conferences
March 23-27 Spring Break
May 25 Memorial Day
May 27 End of 4th 9 weeks (47 days)
Student Attendance – 178 Days
Faculty Attendance – 180 Days
In-service Days – 10
Total Faculty Days – 190
Partee Elementary Principal 734-5010
Partee Elementary Office 734-5010
Superintendent 734-5000
Special Education Supervisor 734-5129
Fax Line-Superintendent’s Office 734-5002
Fax Line- Elementary Office 734-5014
We welcome you as a member of our school. In the spring
of 1997
Be proud of our school. Take good care of it and feel free to make suggestions for improving it. As a school citizen, we expect that you behave appropriately and conduct yourself properly. You will learn necessary and useful skills for the future. New students may find some things unfamiliar at first, but you will soon become accustomed to them.
The Brinkley School Board of Education will use all of its resources to ensure that all students:
· Will have an appropriate educational environment to achieve competencies, knowledge, skills,
and attitudes to meet the challenges and choices of the future;
· Will mature intellectually, emotionally, socially and physically;
· Will develop personal interests, community respect, and civic responsibility; and,
· Will develop a passion for lifelong learning.
SCHOOL
At
SCHOOL HOURS
School begins at
The bus bell
officially ends the school day at
It shall
be the policy
of the Brinkley
School District that
the most recently adopted version
of the Student
Handbook be incorporated by reference into the policies
of this district. In the
event that there is a conflict
between the student handbook and a general board policy
or policies, the more recently
adopted language will be considered binding and controlling on the matter provided the parent of the
student, or the student if 18 years of age or older have acknowledged receipt
of the controlling language.
VIDEO SURVEILLANCE
The board has a
responsibility to maintain discipline, protect the safety, security, and
welfare of its students, staff and visitors while at the same time safeguarding
district facilities, vehicles and equipment.
As part of fulfilling this responsibility, the board authorizes the use
of video/audio surveillance cameras in any district building, on district
property, and in district buses and vehicles.
Video recorder placements shall be based on the presumption and belief
that students, staff and visitors have no reasonable expectation of privacy in
areas or at events that occur in plain view of other students, staff or
visitors.
Signs shall be
posted on campus buildings and in district vehicles to notify students, staff,
and visitors that video cameras may be in use.
Parents and students shall also be notified through the student handbook
that cameras may be in use in school buildings, on school grounds and in school
vehicles. Students will be held
responsible for any violations of
school disciplines rules caught by the cameras.
The district shall
retain copies of video recordings for a minimum of two (2) weeks (storage
permitting) before they are erased which may be accomplished by either deletion
or copying over with a new recording.
Parents wishing to view a video recording need to be aware that it may
not be available after the two week period unless the video contains evidence
of misconduct.
Video recordings
shall be considered student education records and any release or viewing of
such records shall be in accordance with current law. Videos containing evidence of a violation of
student conduct rules and/or state or federal law shall be retained until the
issue of the misconduct has been settled.
Students who
vandalize, damage, disable, or ender inoperable surveillance cameras and
equipment shall be subject to appropriate disciplinary action and referral to
appropriate law enforcement authorities.
The issues
involved in parental rights to viewing videos are complicated, but the Family
Policy Compliance Office (FPCO) of the Family Educational and Right Act
(FERPA), has recently simplified the matter.
A video of, for example, a fight between two (or even several) students
in which other students happen to have been incidentally included in the background
of the video generates the following viewing conditions:
a.
Either or both of the students’ parents may view the video
without first having to receive permission from the other student’s
parent. None of the parents of the
“incidental” students have to give their permission for the viewing of the
video by the “involved” students’ parents.
The district is not obligated to give a copy of the
video to the parent or their lawyer.
ATTENDANCE POLICY
All children ages five (5) through seventeen (17)
are required to be in school. Currently a child must be five (5) on or
before September 15 in order to
attend kindergarten. Beginning with the
2009-2010 school year a child must be five (5) on or before September 1, then
for the 2010-2011 school year the date will be
August 15 and finally in 2011-2012 and beyond the date will be August 1.
A parent or guardian of a five (5) year old may obtain a waiver. The
waiver must be filed in the elementary principal’s office by August 1. Any six (6) year old child who has not
completed a kindergarten program prior to public school enrollment shall be
evaluated by the school district to determine whether placement for the child
shall be in kindergarten or the first grade.
The purpose of this policy is to place responsibility for attendance upon the student and parent. School personnel will work with the parents. On the fourth (4th) and eighth (8th) and fifteenth (15th) absence, the principal will send a letter home to the parent/guardian stating the number of days absent.
1. All student absences in the
2. The number of unexcused and/or excessive absences allowed shall be seven (7) per semester. When a student exceeds the number of unexcused and/or excessive absences, the school will notify the parent/guardian by mail and the prosecuting attorney. The student’s parent/guardian or parent in loco parentis shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $500 plus court costs. ACA 6-18-222.
3. The number of Students who are absent more than the allotted days due to prolonged illness, accident, or other extenuating circumstance approved by the administration will not be penalized.
4. Students may make up all work missed except work missed due to unexcused absences, including suspension. The responsibility for making arrangements with the teachers for make-up work belongs entirely to the student. Students will be allowed one (1) day upon return from the absence to make contact with the teacher and three (3) days to turn in make-up work. Failure to make up work missed from an absence as outlined above will result in a zero.
CHECK IN AND CHECK OUT PROCEDURES
A student will be permitted to leave the school premises
during the school day only if he/she has been signed out by a parent/guardian
in the elementary principal’s office. A student will not be permitted to leave
school with a person other than a parent or legal guardian unless a written
statement is received from the parent or guardian giving such permission. If an individual checks out a student during
the school day, they may be asked to show proof of identification that includes
a photo before a student may leave with them.
No student may leave with a high school sibling or friend at any
time. A student will not be permitted to
go home with another student without written permission from the parent or
guardian. A student will be counted
absent one half day if they arrive after
Students may ride bicycles to school. Upon arrival to school, bicycles should be parked at the bicycle rack. They are to be left there until the dismissal bell each day unless given permission by a teacher to move them for a specific reason. The school will not be held responsible for any stolen or damaged bicycles. Students may not ride mopeds or any other motor-driven cycle to school.
SCHOOL PARTIES
The school telephone is for business calls only.
Students are not allowed to make phone calls, and are not called to the
telephone except in case of an emergency. Please make arrangements for your
children in advance in the event of an unexpected early closing of school. If
you wish to speak to a
teacher, leave your
name and number,
and he/she will return your call as soon as possible. The nurse will
contact the parents when a child needs to go home because of illness
All items lost or found should be brought to the office. The school cannot assume responsibility for a personal loss. Therefore, students should not bring large sums of money or valuables to school.
If for any reason school will not be in session, the superintendent will notify KBRI/KQMC Brinkley radio station FM 102.3 or AM 1570, KXJK Forrest City radio station 950 AM and television station KATV Channel 7. We will broadcast this announcement as early as possible. However, predicting road conditions in advance is often impossible, so the decision on bus operation may have to be made shortly before regular departure time. Therefore, on days when weather conditions are severe, we ask that parents monitor these stations for information. Please do not call the school, the radio station or television stations.
If during the school day, weather conditions become severe enough to warrant school closing, buses may have to run earlier than the normal schedule. The superintendent will notify KBRI/KQMC when the decision is made to dismiss early. In such cases, parents should closely monitor KBRI/KQMC radio station. Please do not call the school offices or radio station.
Student Publications
All publications that are supported financially by the school or by use of school facilities, or are produced in conjunction with a class shall be considered school-sponsored publications. School publications do not provide a forum for public expression. Such publications, as well as the content of student expression in school-sponsored activities, shall be subject to the editorial control of the District’s administration whose actions shall be reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns and adhere to the following limitations.
1. Advertising may be accepted for publications that does not condone or promote products that are inappropriate for the age and maturity of the audience or the endorse such things as tobacco, alcohol, or drugs.
2. Publications may be regulated to prohibit writings which are, in the opinion of the appropriate teacher and/or administrator, ungrammatical, poorly written, inadequately researched, biased or prejudiced, vulgar or profane, or unsuitable for immature audiences.
3. Publications may be regulated to refuse to publish material which might reasonably be perceived to advocate drug or alcohol use, irresponsible sex, or conduct otherwise inconsistent with the shared values of a civilized social order, or to associate the school with any position other than neutrality on matters of political controversy.
4. Prohibited publications include:
a. Those that are obscene as to minors;
b. Those that are libelous or slanderous, including material containing defamatory falsehoods about public figures or governmental officials, which are made with knowledge of their falsity or reckless disregard fo the truth;
c. Those that constitute an unwarranted invasion of privacy as defined by state law,
d. Publications that suggest or urge the commission of unlawful acts on the school premises;
e. Publications which suggest or urge the violation of lawful school regulations;
f. Hate literature that scurrilously attacks ethnic, religious, or racial groups.
Student Publications on School Web Pages
Student publications that are displayed on school web pages shall follow the same guidelines as listed above plus they shall: