Fighting Any actions that endanger or threaten to endanger any member of the Brother Rice community are clearly contrary to the ideals of an Edmund Rice education. Any student who engages in fighting or physical threats may face serious disciplinary action including Saturday Detention, required counseling, suspension, up to and including expulsion.
Weapons and Dangerous Items Students may not use, possess, conceal, sell, distribute, or bring on to Brother Rice property or to any school-sponsored activity any materials or items that are dangerous, illegal, inappropriate, or disruptive to the educational process or any athletic or schoolsponsored activity. Examples include but are not limited to, the following: illegal drugs( including prescribed and over-the-counter medications used inappropriately), alcohol, firearms, a knife with a blade three inches or longer, dagger, box cutter, or similar items and explosives. Use of any weapon or similar item in a threatening or assaulting manner is strictly prohibited and any weapons, drugs, or dangerous items will be confiscated by Brother Rice. Possession, use, sale, or distribution of a toy weapon, a look-alike, or a replica of a weapon or dangerous item is prohibited except with the prior approval by the Principal for appropriate educational use. The decision whether items are dangerous, inappropriate, disruptive, or used in a threatening or assaulting manner is within the sole discretion of the school. Violation of this will result in disciplinary action, up to and including expulsion, law enforcement involvement, and full compliance with any mandatory reporting obligations.
In an effort to maintain a safe environment for students, Brother Rice also requires that parents / guardians or visitors refrain from carrying or bringing weapons, concealed or open-carried, or other dangerous materials onto school property or to school-sponsored events.
Searches in School Buildings or on School Property The school administration retains control over lockers and desk space loaned to students and regulates the admission and parking of automobiles on school grounds. Therefore, if there is reasonable suspicion that drugs; weapons; dangerous, illegal, or prohibited matter; or stolen goods are likely to be found, the Principal and / or designee has the right and duty to inspect and search student lockers, desks, book-bags, personal electronic devices and student or non-student automobiles. The school Principal and / or designee, in the exercise of the school ' s duty to enforce school discipline and to protect the health and safety of the student body, also has the right and duty to search a student ' s person if there is a reasonable degree of suspicion that drugs; weapons; dangerous, illegal, or prohibited matter; or stolen goods are likely to be found on the student ' s person. All items or goods of search may be turned over to the police, resulting in possible criminal or juvenile court prosecution.
D. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Respect, Integrity, Character, and Excellence are keys to true learning and are the foundation of a Brother Rice Catholic education. Brother Rice strives to build a community of trust that will support student achievement and live up to our standards of Sanctitas Per Scientiam: Holiness through Knowledge. Students who accept responsibility for creating a climate of academic integrity will benefit for a lifetime.
Brother Rice High School requires adherence to the highest standards of conduct in academic and extra-curricular affairs. These standards include the expectation that no student will engage in academic integrity. Examples of academic integrity include, but are not limited to, the following activities:
1. Taking credit for work that is not one’ s own or attempting to do so.
2. Allowing another student to claim one’ s own work as his / her own.
3. Communicating with another student, physically or via electronic media, during any assessment( i. e. test, quiz) situation.
4. Relaying or accepting information, physically or via electronic media, about an assessment.
5. Using unauthorized supplemental materials( calculators, notes, etc.) in an assessment situation without explicit prior approval from the teacher. 6. Intentionally omitting information. 7. Failing to report students one has witnessed engaging in any of the foregoing activities.
The school will generally implement the following steps but has the right to skip, merge, or alter steps where deemed appropriate. Failure to adhere to the Academic Integrity expectations will result in:
First Offense: A zero( 0) on the assignment, parent / guardian contact, and detention.
Second Offense: A zero( 0) on the assignment, a Saturday detention, and two weeks of Disciplinary Probation.
Third Offense: A zero( 0) on the assignment, a one( 1) day in-school suspension, and a month of Disciplinary Probation beginning when the student is eligible to return to school.
Fourth Offense: Expulsion from Brother Rice High School.
Any infractions relating to academic dishonesty are cumulative throughout the entire time a student is enrolled at Brother Rice High School.
E. STUDENT HEALTH
Communicable Disease It shall be a serious responsibility of a parent / guardian to inform the Administration of Brother Rice by confidential communication from the student’ s medical doctor any time a positive diagnosis of any reportable communicable disease is obtained on their son. Failure to report a communicable disease will result in exclusion from school with further consequences because of the irresponsible behavior which puts the school community at risk. A communicable disease is defined as follows:“ An illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products which results from the transmission of that agent or its products from a reservoir to a susceptible host, directly as from an infected individual or animal host, vector or the inanimate environment”( Michigan Public Health Code 333.5101, Article“ A”).” Dangerous communicable disease means a communicable disease which is so designated by the department pursuant to this part”( Michigan Public Health Code 333.5101, Article“ B”).
The Administration of Brother Rice may, in its sole discretion, suspend a student with a known communicable disease for a reasonable period of time. During the time of suspension, the parent / guardian shall be obligated to obtain appropriate diagnostic information and furnish it to the Administration of the school and obtain any / all appropriate treatment for the student.
A student who has been suspended by the Administration of Brother Rice pursuant to the preceding paragraph shall be excluded from school and all extra-curricular activities until a physician certifies that the student may return. The Administration shall be guided by the applicable regulations of the Department of Health. The school will provide the suspended student in such a situation
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