Policies and procedures

The policies and procedures listed below will be used in BIHS classrooms. Teachers reserve the right to adjust the policies to meet individual students' needs.

Classroom policies

  • Only drinks with a secure lid will be allowed in BIHS classrooms.  No food, please.
  • Students will have a limited number of times they can leave class each semester.
  • BIHS teachers will enforce that at the bell, students promptly sit in their seats; otherwise student will be marked tardy.
  • Students will be released by permission of the teacher.
  • Cell phones may only be used before and after school, and during lunch, as per BHS school rules.
  • The teacher may temporarily confiscate electronics displayed or used in the classroom.

Academic policies

  • All BIHS teachers will follow the school policy with regard to tardiness and absences.
  • All BIHS teachers will use assessments built around the International Baccalaureate criteria for grading major assignments.
  • Late work will be accepted with penalty, to be determined by each individual teacher.
  • Make up work for absences will be handled on a case-by-case basis.

Discipline protocol

A students may receive any of the following consequences, depending on his or her action:

  • Appropriate warning
  • Conference
  • Phone call home
  • Referral
  • Parent conference

BIHS aims to provide a rigorous, college preparatory curriculum wherein all students are successful
and develop an international perspective that enables them to critically evaluate the human condition
and positively contribute to the growing global community.

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