Consequences for different behavior from Green Bay Area Public School students will now be standardized across the district.
On Monday, the district's Board of Education was presented with a "behavioral response chart" in the hopes of stopping violent and abusive behaviors at schools district-wide, including Washington Middle School.
Washington recently made headlines when a teacher resigned over alleged emotional, physical, verbal and sexual abuse she said was rampant at the school.
The new behavioral response chart is a detailed list of what actions from students would warrant a particular consequence.
"Each school has their own flavor on how they do discipline, but is still has to tie back to that document so there has to be consistency with how we approach certain behaviors in schools," said Brenda Warren, Board of Education president.
Turns out, schools across the district have been doling out different consequences for similar inappropriate actions. The new behavioral response chart could help fix that.
"I think this document is really going to be helpful so we as a district can really be clear on what our expectations are," said Angela Buchemauer, Associate Director of Student Services.
Although most inappropriate behavior now has a detailed consequence in writing, those consequences still have to be enforced.
"The idea of all of this is to help all our students understand how to behave in group settings and with each other," said Warren. "It's not meant to be a punishment document, it's meant to be a teaching document."
The district plans to post its behavioral response chart on its website, including the consequences, as soon as Tuesday.
