OBJECTIVES OF MY SCHOOL DIARY

MSD is an effective tool for communication between the school and the family. It enables the student to organize his/her activities, and the parents to regularly keep up with their child’s schoolwork. The student must bring the School Diary to school and write down the homework in it. The teachers write in the evaluation results. They can also write in information from the school, in particular remarks about the student’s performance or behavior, or announce special events. Parents must sign the School Diary each week to acknowledge they have seen and read the information. There is a space for their comments. Particular attention should be paid to the kind, nature, and number of observations written in the School Diary. Direct dialogue enables the most complete and precise communication regarding the pupil’s school life. Parents and teachers may ask for a meeting at any time.

Special Note on the code of Student Behavior

DFES strives to help each student under its care, to become an independent and responsible learner who is not only aware of appropriate and acceptable social behaviors but also able to monitor his / her own behavior. Beyond academic skills, we strongly emphasize the learning and development of how to make the appropriate choice about their own behavior and how to accept reasonable and logical consequences when his/her behavior may be inappropriate. Whenever a situation of inappropriate behavior occurs, the school staff or class teachers, or administrator concerned will listen to the individual student’s side of the story and then determine whether he/she has made a good or bad choice of his/her behavior. Accordingly resolves suitable follow-up actions with the hope of changing or improving his/her misbehavior.

Given below are some of the consequential actions of misbehaviors.

• Reprimand or Warning: If this is the first time, and it is a relatively minor infraction, he/she shall be given the opportunity to talk with the staff or administrator concerned, who will remind the student/s concerned of the rules and our expectations.
• Parent contact: The teacher, the counselor, or administrator will inform the student’s parents of the misbehavior by either telephone, letter, or E-mail.
• Parent Conference: The school Counseling Committee will hold a meeting with the parents of the concerned student and discuss his/her misbehavior and resolve a suitable plan for improving it. For students having no parents or whose parents are far away-stay in our locality, we would meet with their relatives or local guardians. The class teacher, parent, and student concerned would be asked to attend the meeting.
• Restitution: Student/s will be asked to pay for damages he/she/they have created, perform a service for their school community, prepare a positively reinforcing project that is related to the misbehavior, and will be asked to write or express words of apology if he/she/they have hurt someone in the process.
• Teacher Detainment: These are request by the teacher for student/s to return after school to class to make up work or because of some behavioral infraction. This is usually, unless the teacher arranges it, to be observed the same day, in the classroom or in the assistant headmaster’s office, and will end on or before 4:30 pm. Whenever any teacher decides to apply for detention, it must be notified to the VP/HOC for better coordination. The VP/HOC will inform the home to avoid misunderstanding.
• Detention: A detention is extra time spent after school in order to help student/s learn from mistakes. During the extra time of detention, the concerned student/s will be made to carry out positive reinforcement tasks. The detention will be issued by the school principal. This kind of administrative detention will take place after the matter has been discussed by the school Counseling Committee. Student/s will be made to stay either in the Counselor’s office or in the Principal’s office.

Progressive Discipline Case (PDC): Students who have had an excessive number of office referrals may be placed on Progressive Discipline Case(PDC) by the school administrator. This means that the misbehaviors will result in substantially more severe consequences. Parents, relatives, or local guardians will be notified of this status and warned that unless satisfactory progress is made by the student to improve behavior, a long term administrative detention will be imminent