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Detention Policies

Students are given detention for defiance and disorderliness in the classroom, dress code violations, tardiness, refusing to complete work and general misbehavior. At OAHS there are three kinds of detention: lunch, after school and class.

LUNCH DETENTION

Students are required to report to lunch detention during the first 10 minutes of lunch. If a student is late he or she will be given an extra assignment.

AFTER SCHOOL DETENTION

Students are required to report to after school detention within ten minutes of being released from class. Parents will be contacted to arrange transportation for the student after school. There is no bus service for students in after school detention.

CLASS DETENTION

Students will be given class detention when they are removed from class for disciplinary reasons. During this time they must complete an Office Reflection Form, their parents will be called and they will be assigned class specific work pages to complete, or they will be given a reading assignment.

LUNCH AND AFTER SCHOOL DETENTION POLICIES

Students must arrive at detention within the first ten minutes of lunch, or when school is dismissed for the day.

For each violation students are given one column of the dictionary, or one page of class work to copy. Students must copy the page word for word, including all punctuation marks, and write legibly. If the detention leader cannot read the work the student must repeat it.

Detention is complete when the student completes the assigned work and has it approved by the detention leader. This may take more than one day to accomplish.

Students who arrive within the first ten minutes of detention and work steadily over the entire detention period will be allowed to take the assignment home and complete it before the next school day. Students who take this option must report to lunch detention to turn in the work. Detention work will only be collected during detention. If the student returns without the assignment, or it is incomplete the student will start over from the beginning. This policy only applies to students who have no more than three detention assignments.

LUNCH AND AFTER SCHOOL DETENTION RULES AND CONSEQUENCES

• Each tardy earns one detention assignment
• Each time you refuse to do an assignment you will earn one detention assignment, and you will call your parents immediately to explain why you won't do your work.
• Each dress code violation earns one detention assignment. If your parents call in with a dress code excuse, You will be given detention anyway if you wear black, red or blue shirts, headgear or belts; or clothing with drug, sex, alcohol or gang-related Black pants are acceptable.
• Each behavior violation will earn at least on detention assignment, but you may earn more depending your behavior after the first detention is given.
• When you skip detention your assignment doubles each day.
• When you speak to any person beside the detention instructor you will get an extra detention assignment per incident.
• When you use detention for social time, you will be isolated.
• When you are disrespectful in detention, your work doubles.
• When you receive five detention assignments you will be given after school detention, in addition to lunch detention.
• When you receive both after school and lunch detention, you will be suspended for two days on the next violation.
• If your parents cannot be contacted to provide you with transportation, you will be suspended for one day. When you return you must turn in your completed detention assignments.
• When you return from suspension without your completed assignments, you will continue to be on detention and will have to start over from the beginning.
• Upon three suspensions for any reason, you will be placed on conditional enrollment. On the fourth violation, you will be asked to withdraw from the school, or you will be recommended for formal expulsion.

CLASS DETENTION POLICIES

• Students must report directly to Ms. Webb or Mr. Dunlap and complete a student office reflection.
• If Ms. Webb or Mr. Dunlap are unavailable the student is to wait in front of Ms. Webb's office.
• Students may not speak with anyone except Ms. Webb or Mr. Dunlap while they are out of class.
• The student will be interviewed only after the Office Reflection is complete.
• The student will have a brief interview with Ms. Webb or Mr. Dunlap, and then the parents will be called.
• The student will be given work to complete by Ms. Webb or Mr. Dunlap.

CLASS DETENTION RULES AND CONSEQUENCES

• When you do not report directly to Ms. Webb or Mr. Dunlap you will be given two detention assignments.
• When you sit in the front room instead of reporting to Ms. Webb or Mr. Dunlap, you will be given two detention assignments.
• When go to Tia instead of Ms. Webb or Mr. Dunlap, you will be given two detention assignments.
• When you go looking for Ms. Webb or Mr. Dunlap, you will be given two detention assignments.
• When you are found in any part of the building (including the bathroom) other than in front of Ms. Webb's office, you will be given two detention assignments.
• When you talk to another student while you are out of class, you will be given two detention assignments.
• When you do not complete the Office Reflection you will write it over.
• When you do a sloppy job on the Office Reflection you will write it over.
• When you are removed from class during a test or quiz you will automatically fail the test or quiz. You will not be allowed to make it up.
• When you are removed from class you will not be able to make up work from that class session, and you will lose graduation credits for that class session.
• When you are argumentative, disrespectful or uncooperative during class detention, you will be suspended.
• Upon three suspensions for any reason, you will be placed on conditional enrollment. On the fourth violation you will be asked to withdraw from the school, or you will be recommended for formal expulsion.

DETENTION ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING

Each time a student is given detention it is recorded on the detention spreadsheet via email. Staff will write the student’s name, the date of detention, the reason and the consequence. The detention instructor will take roll and assign work based on the spreadsheet. Students will only be deleted from the detention list when they have completed their work. Staff will keep one list only and update it each day. After deleting the complete students, the detention instructor will copy and paste the list for tomorrow into a new tab.