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District presents tiered code-of-conduct and updated handbooks to board
Summary
Forest Hills administrators presented a rewritten student code of conduct organized into tiered levels (100–400) intended to increase transparency for students, parents and staff. The district said legal counsel reviewed the draft and provided clearance for enforceability.
Director of teaching and learning Tim Moore presented an overhaul of the district’s student code of conduct and an updated set of student handbooks, telling the board the revision replaces a long list of roughly 70 infractions with a tiered framework.
Under the proposed structure, infractions are grouped into tiers (100, 200, 300 and 400) that indicate escalating seriousness and potential disciplinary responses. Moore said the change is intended to make consequences clearer for families, students and staff and to support teachers by clarifying likely outcomes when a student is sent to the office.
"It allows a lot more transparency for parents, students, teachers, and administrators to take a look at it and say, if I do a benign code violation at the 100 level, here's what I could potentially get," Moore told the board. He said the draft was developed with a committee of assistant principals, school psychologists, counselors and teachers, and that district legal counsel reviewed the final draft to confirm the wording was enforceable.
Moore said the revision also incorporated examples and updated language to address situations other districts had recently confronted; the goal was to prepare the district with clearer, enforceable language for a wider range of incidents.
The proposed code and the updated handbooks were presented to the board as part of the teaching-and-learning items on the agenda. Moore said administrators will continue to coordinate training and communication with principals, teachers and families to ensure the new framework is understood before it takes effect for the coming school year.
