Jasper High School
Jag News
Week of November 12, 2018
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General Announcements:
Teacher of the Year Selection
Online Fee Payment
Random Metal Detector Searches at Secondary Campuses
Handbook Statement Addition
Drop-Off Table, Third Party Vendor Deliveries, and Federal Food Guidelines
Teacher of the Year Selection:
We are in the process of selecting Teacher of the Year and Beginning Teacher of the Year and want your help!
Parents and Community
Nominations: Please nominate as many teachers as you would like by going to this nomination form. The teacher with the most nominations from the community becomes an automatic finalist. The nomination process ends 11/16 at 4:15 pm.
Selection Committee: Additionally, we are looking for parent volunteers that are willing to serve on the selection committee. If selected, you are committing to 2 hours observing finalists in the classroom and attending a 2 hour deliberation session. We will randomly pick one name from all the volunteers that submit this form.
Students
You can nominate as many teachers as you would like by going to bit.ly/jhstoty18. The teacher with the most nominations from the students becomes an automatic finalist. The nomination process ends 11/16 at 4:15pm.
Online Fee Payment:
Many of our clubs and organizations are now accepting online payments for dues, t-shirts, fundraisers, and more! Visit https://parentportal.pisd.edu to see if you have any outstanding Jasper Club/Organization fees to pay online. When you log in, look for the section labeled as “Program Enrollment & Payments”. Within this section, click the TEAMS Campus Payments link under STUDENT CLUB ACTIVITY FEES. Please visit the link below for additional information.
Random Metal Detector Searches at Secondary Campuses:
The Plano Independent School District (PISD) is committed to providing a safe and secure learning environment so that education remains the primary focus for students and staff. As the district continues to evaluate and enhance school safety features districtwide, the Plano ISD Board of Trustees recently approved policy revisions permitting random, suspicion-less metal detector searches at secondary campuses. You can review the full policy online at:
https://pol.tasb.org/Policy/Download/312?filename=FNF(LOCAL).pdf
Implementation of this policy will begin on secondary campuses soon. The purpose of this policy is to prevent and deter students from bringing weapons to school. School officials are authorized to conduct metal detector screenings of students and searches of their personal effects. Random metal detector searches may occur at any time and students must comply with instructions and directives from school officials during this process. A student who refuses to comply with the search process will be removed from campus and subject to disciplinary consequences pursuant to the Student Code of Conduct. The district will use both walk-through and hand-held metal detectors (wands).
The policy provides that district officials will:
- Minimize inconvenience to student and interference with the educational process;
- Maximize detection and deterrent value by regularly searching significant numbers of students;
- Ensure that patterns are not established that would allow students to avoid searches by predicting the time and location of a search; and
- Avoid instances in which any particular student or group of students is either being favored or targeted by adopting processes in advance of the search that leave the operator of the metal detector(s) a minimum of discretion.
Random metal detector searches will ordinarily be carried out in the following manner:
- Campus administrators will select random groups of students for screening. Examples of random groups include, but are not limited to, all students in a classroom, all students in a particular section of the building, all students in a specific hallway after the tardy bell, all students entering/exiting a selected door, all students on every third bus, etc.
- District safety and security staff will set up and operate metal detector equipment, and may be assisted by campus staff if needed.
- A campus administrator and the school resource officer or other peace officer will be present. The officer will not actively participate in the screening process unless a weapon is suspected or discovered, but will be present for safety.
- Students will be instructed to form one or more lines in a designated area (typically a hallway), and will be screened with a metal detector after being asked to remove all metallic items from their pockets and person.
- If a student activates a metal detector, staff will attempt to determine the source of the alarm by asking the student to confirm he or she has removed all metal objects and by using a hand-held metal detector.
- If the source of the alarm cannot be determined quickly, the student will be escorted to a private area for additional screening to determine the source of the alarm.
- In conjunction with the metal detector screening, backpacks, bags and personal items capable of concealing a weapon will be opened and inspected for the presence of weapons.
You can find this information online at www.pisd.edu/metaldetectorsearch.
Handbook Statement Addition:
Please see the link below for the PISD Handbook Statement regarding aiding students who have learning difficulties or who need Special Education or Section 504 services.
Handbook Statements: https://tinyurl.com/y8lg62uo
Drop-Off Table, Third Party Vendor Deliveries, and Federal Food Guidelines:
We would like to make everyone aware that the drop-off table located at the Jasper front doors is an unsupervised area. Jasper's staff does not have the capacity to supervise the table or monitor items that become missing. We strongly suggest parents that want to bring food up to their students wait and hand deliver the food to their student. If not, there are other options the student can utilize like bringing their lunch or purchasing a lunch from our school cafeteria.
We also would like to remind everyone that third party delivery of food is not permitted. All vendors will be turned away. No vendor should attempt to drop food off in the south student entry way.
Per the Federal Nutritional Guidelines, food that is brought to school cannot be shared with other students. Parents cannot bring extra drinks and food for anyone other than their student. This applies even on birthdays and special occasions.
PTSA/ Jasper Booster Club Announcements:
Join PTSA:
We encourage all of our families to join our PTSA by going to JasperPTSA. This website allows parents and students to join the Jasper PTSA , purchase spirit wear and planners, access student directory, sign-up to volunteer at events, and make donations to the Jasper PTSA. If you have any questions, please email president@jasperptsa.org.
Environmental Initiative Update:
We had our first Zero Waste event of the year! As part of our environmental sustainability initiative, we were successful in making Jagfest a zero waste event. A big thanks to students, teachers, and volunteers who made this possible.
Based on the City of Plano Environmental and Sustainability Department assessment, we achieved a diversion rate of 90%. The following quantities were diverted from landfills:
- Over 150+ gallons of recyclables,
- Over 200+ gallons of compostables &
- Over 5+ gallons of liquid waste
Diverting liquid wastes also prevented contamination in the recyclables. We are off to a great start! Be on the lookout for more sustainability initiatives!
Jasper Clubs/ PWSH Announcements:
Jasper High School
Website: https://www.pisd.edu/Page/81
Location: 6800 Archgate Drive, Plano, TX, United States
Phone: 469-752-7400
Twitter: @jasperjaguars