All School Handbook 2024-2025

Student Communication with Faculty (Including Social Media) For the safety of our children and faculty/staff: o No teacher may “friend” a student or accept a “friend” request from any student through Facebook or any other social media. o All emails to/from teachers must go through parent email addresses or via the student’s assigned Levine.net email accounts (these are established for all middle school students only). o Questions from students regarding school must come to the teacher’s school email. Ethical Covenant The Early Childhood through Eighth Grade Covenant involves parents, teachers and students as partners in making the Ethical Covenant a living document at Levine Academy. The Covenant defines the core values central to our school’s philosophy – responsibility, respect, justice, citizenship, caring, holiness and integrity – and are traits we expect our students, as well as their parents and teachers, to carry with them all their lives. Levine’s Parent-School Covenant is founded on the belief that parents and school must establish and maintain a partnership in all aspects of school life, but especially in the education of the students. This Covenant is designed to strengthen the relationship between parents and the school as well as between parents and their children. Central to Levine’s ethical philosophy is our Non-discrimination Statement and our Discriminatory Misconduct Policy. This statement and policy are listed below; however, further information on our Discriminatory Misconduct Policy, including definitions, examples, reporting and procedures is all spelled out in our K-8 Behavior and Discipline section later in this handbook. Non-Discrimination Statement Levine Academy supports and complies with applicable provisions of state and federal law which prohibit discrimination in employment, admissions, access or use of its educational or extracurricular programs, activities, or facilities, on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, service in the armed forces of the United States, positive HIV-related blood test results, genetic information, other disability, and/or any other status or characteristic as defined and to the extent protected by applicable law. Discriminatory Misconduct Policy Discriminatory Misconduct is behavior referencing race, creed, color, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, service in the armed forces of the United States, positive HIV-related blood test results, genetic information, other disability, and/or any other status or characteristic as defined and protected by law; that is unwelcome, uncomfortable, offensive, severe or pervasive, and has the purpose or effect of interfering with an individual’s work or educational performance, and creates an abusive, hostile or intimidating environment for work or learning. This behavior is not permitted by Levine Academy.

The Discriminatory Misconduct Policy includes a range of behavior including but not limited to; harassment, hate speech, bias, gender and sexual identity discrimination, bullying, relational

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