She writes notes to probation officers vouching for young violators' regular attendance and good citizenship in school. And she handles referrals from teachers lots of them. Just after spring break, she shuffles through a backlog of warnings and referrals, most of them fairly mild in nature. He agrees to watch his language and actions more closelythe future. The parade of errant students to the principal's office continues.
Several students are in a precarious spot.
With two discipline referrals for the semester, they are just one referral from being sent back to their home high school a terrifying fate for many Meridian kids. They've experienced terrible failure there. Because students sit on the policy committee and have a hand in shaping it, they regard it with a sense of ownership. When they don't like the policy, they have an avenue for protest. Most importantly, Reynolds says, they know that discipline at Meridian is even-handed, never arbitrary.