When a student fails to do this, the parents will be notified by the teacher, preferably by phone, that the student was absent. Students may be excused from school for the reasons listed below. The goal of a school is to help students realize their full academic, behavioral, and social potential. In order to help achieve this goal, teachers and administrators have developed some very basic rules and guidelines through which students take responsibility for their own behavior. Students' behavior will always be governed by good manners, respect and courtesy.
Students are to refrain from noisy, unruly behavior that is disruptive to the learning environment.
Students share with the administrators and teachers the responsibility for developing a climate within the school that is conducive to productive learning. Students and parents must be responsible for properly maintaining the textbooks and equipment used by students, for respecting property, for obeying school rules, and for accepting reasonable and appropriate consequences if their responsibilities are not fulfilled. VES regrettably, still has some students who too often resort to fighting as a means of solving their conflicts with other students. When a fight occurs, the students may be suspended from school. Suspension is used only by the administration when other methods of discipline have been tried unsuccessfully.