The Westland Middle School community will promote character education through a positive learning atmosphere where staff, students, and parents teach, model, and reinforce the virtues of caring, respect, honesty, fairness, and responsibility. All students are capable of behaving appropriately. Misbehavior is a matter of choice. Teachers have a right to teach without disruption.
Students have a right and responsibility to learn.
Respect must be shown at all times. Certain infractions result in uniform disciplinary actions at a given grade level throughout the Montgomery County School System. Behavior which will hurt anyone physically. Fighting, play fighting, pushing, shoving, running in the school halls, throwing objects, carrying dangerous objects inappropriately, using science materials irresponsibly, are some of the types of behavior that fall into this category. Name-calling, racial slurs, calling attention to one's personal characteristics in a derogatory manner, intimidation, group isolation or ostracism, and other behaviors which are designed to devalue or hurt another person fall into this category.