ALLEGIANT ACADEMY - STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT

 

Purpose. Allegiant Academy is a small Christian hybrid program. Students are on campus two days a week and at home with their parents the rest of the week. This code sets the standard for class, campus, and Allegiant-sponsored events, and the path we take when a student falls short of it. The aim is not punishment for its own sake. It is training in self-control, honesty, and love of neighbor, so the classroom can stay a place where students learn.

God’s Word is the authority. “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up” (Ephesians 4:29). “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another” (Ephesians 4:32). “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men” (Colossians 3:23). Discipline here follows the pattern in Proverbs and in Hebrews 12: correction, then restoration.

Who it covers. This code applies to every enrolled student during class, lunch, breaks, study hall, field trips, performances, and any other Allegiant-sponsored event, on or off the church campus. Conduct away from campus that harms another Allegiant student, staff member, or the reputation of the academy may also be addressed. Enrollment is a partnership. Parents agree to support this code when they enroll.

1. Partnership with the home and the church

• Students and parents are expected to attend church on a regular basis. Allegiant is not a substitute for the local church.

• Parents remain the primary educators. Assigned work is completed at home. Teachers will contact parents when a pattern of missing work, lateness, or conduct begins.

• Parents and students will use Matthew 18 with staff: go to the person involved first, then to leadership, rather than building a case by text or group chat.

2. In the classroom

Class at Allegiant is Socratic and participatory. A student who sits in the back and checks out changes the room for everyone else. These are the expectations.

Prepared and present

• Be on time, with the assigned work done and the supplies the lesson requires.

• Sit where the teacher assigns. Participate. Sleeping, side conversations, and refusal to engage are not permitted.

• Remain seated until dismissed. Do not pack up early or leave the room without permission.

• Ask questions. Disagree with an idea. Do not mock a classmate for asking, answering, or getting something wrong.

Speech

• No profanity, coarse jokes, sexual talk, slurs, or unkind remarks about another student’s body, family, faith, grades, or appearance.

• No gossip. If it cannot be said to the person’s face, it does not belong in the hallway or the group chat.

• Speak to teachers and staff with respect, including when corrected.

Academic honesty

• Work turned in is the student’s own, including work done at home. Copying, sharing answers, and unpermitted use of AI or another person’s writing are cheating.

• A first academic-honesty offense is a zero on the assignment, a parent contact, and a written notice. A second offense in the same year moves to Level 3. See Disciplinary structure below.

3. On campus

Campus includes classrooms, hallways, lunch areas, the cafe, game room, restrooms, parking areas, and any other part of the church property we are using.

Where students may be

• Students stay in supervised areas during class, breaks, and lunch. Wandering the building, the parking lot, or off church property is not allowed.

• Students remain on site during lunch and breaks unless authorized to leave by an approved family member.

• Restrooms are for their purpose. They are not a hangout or a place to skip class.

Facility stewardship

• Treat church property as something we have been trusted with. No marking on walls, tables, or desks. No pulling on displays. No food or drink where it is not allowed.

• Clean up after yourself at lunch and at the end of class. Chairs in, trash out, supplies returned.

• Damage is reported the same day. Families are responsible for the cost of repair or replacement caused by their student, accidental or not.

One another

• Students look on one another as brothers and sisters in Christ. Kindness is the standard.

• No bullying, exclusion campaigns, name-calling, threats, or physical fights. Horseplay that gets rough is treated as a conduct issue.

• Hands and feet stay to yourself. No hitting, shoving, grabbing, or tripping.

• Wholesome friendship is encouraged. Romantic affection, or the appearance of it, is not for campus or Allegiant events. That includes prolonged physical contact, sitting on laps, making out, and couple behavior that pulls the group apart.

• Conflict is handled with the tools we teach: name the issue, speak to the person, involve a teacher if it does not resolve. Revenge, pile-ons, and silent treatment are not conflict management.

Phones and screens

Allegiant is a phone-free device campus. Phones brought on campus must be placed in phone jail at the beginning of the day, as soon as a student arrives on campus. The phone may not be accessed until the student leaves and is off campus.

• A phone that is not in phone jail, or that is accessed before the student is off campus, is a conduct issue. See Disciplinary structure below.

• Smartwatches used as phones are treated as phones and go in phone jail with the phone. A first offense is confiscation for the day and a parent note. A repeat offense is a parent pickup of the device and a Level 2 notice. See Disciplinary structure below.

Dress

The Allegiant dress code is strictly enforced. An unaltered uniform is required on campus. Students select compliant uniform items from the Allegiant shop. Outerwear must also be Allegiant uniform pieces from the shop.

On chapel days, polos are required. Chapel is a special day once a month, when we bring in a guest pastor for a set-apart time of worship and learning.

• For off-campus Allegiant events when uniforms are not required, dress still shows respect for yourself, for the people around you, and for the host. No spaghetti straps or low-cut shirts. Clothing should be neat, cover the midriff, and not be sheer or see-through. Shorts and skirts should reach at least mid-thigh and not be rolled. Nothing with profanity, sexual content, or drug imagery. Staff may address clothing that misses that standard and may require a change before the student participates.

• Our code for dress, on campus and off, is rooted in modesty and a witness in how we present ourselves as Christians in public.

4. What is not allowed

The following are prohibited on campus, at Allegiant events, and, where noted, in connection with the Allegiant community. This list is not exhaustive. Leadership may address conduct that violates the spirit of this code even if it is not named here.

• Weapons of any kind, including knives, firearms, and look-alike weapons.

• Illegal drugs, alcohol, tobacco, nicotine, and vaping products, including possession, use, or being under the influence.

• Stealing, vandalism, and deliberate damage to church, academy, staff, or student property.

• Lying to staff, forging a parent note or signature, or covering for another student’s misconduct.

• Fighting, threats, harassment, hazing, and sexual misconduct.

• Leaving campus without being authorized to leave.

• Phones or devices kept out of phone jail, or accessed before the student is off campus.

Harm to oneself is a safety matter, not a discipline category. If a student is hurting himself or herself, or says they intend to, staff will contact parents the same day and may ask the family to pause campus attendance until a plan is in place. The student is not punished for asking for help.

5. Disciplinary structure

Most Christian schools use a ladder: teacher correction first, then a written record and parent contact, then a conference and a pause from campus, then a decision about whether the student can stay. Allegiant uses that same shape, sized for a two-day hybrid. We do not run after-school or Saturday detention. The consequence that fits this program is loss of the campus day, a behavior agreement with the parents, or dismissal from the hybrid program.

The ladder:

1. Teacher correction.

2. Written notice and parent contact.

3. Parent conference and a campus pause.

4. Dismissal from the hybrid program.

Leadership may skip steps when the conduct is serious.

Level 1 — Teacher correction

For a first or isolated miss. Examples, not exhaustive: talking over instruction, a late arrival, an unkind comment that stops when addressed, a mild dress issue, not prepared.

• Verbal correction in the moment.

• Student may be moved, asked to step into the hall briefly, or lose the remainder of a break.

• Teacher notes it. Parent is told if it happens twice in a day or becomes a pattern.

Level 2 — Written notice

For a repeat of a Level 1 issue, or a clearer breach. Examples, not exhaustive: disrespect to a teacher, refusal to participate, a phone or device out of phone jail, leaving a supervised area, gossip or unkindness that continues, lying about a small matter.

• Student is removed from class for the rest of that period if the room cannot function.

• Written notice goes to the parent the same day.

• Student owes an apology where one is due, in person, before returning to that class as normal.

• Two Level 2 notices in a semester move the student to Level 3.

Level 3 — Parent conference and campus pause

For a pattern, for defiance, for academic dishonesty after a first offense, or for conduct that hurt another student. Examples, not exhaustive.

• Conference with the student, at least one parent, and academy leadership before the next campus day when possible.

• A written behavior agreement: what changes, what support the family will give at home, and what happens if it does not change. Signed by student and parent.

• Possible suspension from one or more campus days. Work assigned for those days is still due. A student serving a campus pause does not attend field trips or Allegiant events during the pause.

• Restitution where something was damaged or taken.

Level 4 — Dismissal

For serious misconduct, or for a student who will not keep a Level 3 agreement. Dismissal means the student is unenrolled from Allegiant Academy. It is decided by academy leadership and confirmed by the board. The family may submit a short written response before the board confirms. Tuition already paid is handled under the enrollment agreement, not under this code.

Serious misconduct can move straight to Level 3 or Level 4 on a first offense. Examples, not exhaustive: weapons, drugs, alcohol, tobacco or vaping, fighting, threats, theft, vandalism, sexual misconduct, flagrant defiance of staff, and endangering students or staff.

The examples given under each level are not exhaustive. Leadership may address other conduct that falls at the same level.

Search and confiscation

If there is a reasonable concern about a weapon, drugs, or stolen property, leadership may ask to see a bag or pocket contents with another adult present, and will call the parent. Illegal items are turned over to parents or, if required, to law enforcement.

6. Restoration

Our heart is always for restoration. A student who owns what he or she did, makes it right, and keeps the agreement may be welcomed fully back, at the discretion of the board.

Re-enrollment for the following year is not automatic for a student who finished the year on a behavior agreement or who was dismissed. Leadership will say so in writing before registration opens.

Acknowledgment

We have read the Allegiant Academy Student Code of Conduct. We understand the class and campus expectations and the disciplinary ladder. We agree to support and abide by this code.

Student name ________________________________    Date ______________

Student signature ________________________________

Parent or guardian name ________________________________

Parent or guardian signature ________________________________    Date ______________