AT HOME:

AT SCHOOL:

IN THE COMMUNITY:

IN YOUR CONGREGATION:

• Discuss the student handbook and code of conduct with your children.
• Get involved in a parent-teacher organization.
• Inform yourself about school boundaries by visiting your childs school.
• Talk with teachers about classroom boundaries, then talk with your child about respecting those boundaries.
• Support school boundaries, consequences, and expectations for students behavior.
• Contact school authorities when boundaries are not being enforced fairly, consistently, or appropriately.
• When conflicts occur, dont be pushy.

• Create an official policy on behaviors that are in-bounds, and establish consequences for behavior that is out-of-bounds.
• Parents should have a copy of the student handbook.
• Expect young people to behave responsibly.
• Post your school boundaries throughout the school.
• Use peer mediation as one way to resolve boundary violations.
• Notice and celebrate times when students follow school policies and respect school boundaries.
• Provide adequate supervision in the lunchroom, hallways, etc.

• Support school leaders in developing, communicating, and enforcing school boundaries.
• Make sure that school boundaries are consistent from school to school.
• Talk publicly about school boundaries.
• Be sure that coaches and other adult leaders are informed and support school boundaries.

• Learn what the boundaries are in schools in your community.
• Find out about school policies for student behavior and reinforce those expectations within the congregation.