Richardson Terrace Elementary
January 3, 2023
State of Texas Kits Now Available to Parents
Texas law (S.B. 2158) requires school districts to make inkless, in-home fingerprint and DNA identification kits available to parents or guardians of elementary and junior high students, upon request.
Parents may complete a kit to keep at home to provide to law enforcement authorities if assistance is ever needed to locate and return a missing child.
This program is an optional tool for parents to keep at home. Kits should not be returned to any RISD school or employee. Parents or guardians interested in an in-home fingerprint and DNA identification kit should contact their elementary or junior high school’s front office.
Please visit the Texas School Safety Center website for more information.
Richardson ISD Student Cellphone Guidelines
To promote the best possible learning and social environment in Richardson ISD, students will not use their cellphones during the school day, unless provided permission from an authorized district employee during the instructional day. The intent of the cellphone policy is to establish a cellphone-free environment and avoid cellphones distracting from learning as well as causing a loss of instructional time.
Statement of Expectations
Campus administrators will state expectations clearly and reinforce the importance of maintaining a cellphone-free environment at the beginning of the year. Administrators will monitor cellphone violations to inform the need for reinforcement and support. Also, any headphone usage will occur based on the approval and expectations set by individual classroom teachers. RISD’s continued focus will be on the mitigation of educational distractions precipitated by the use of cellphones during instructional time.
Consequences
If a student uses their phone during the school instructional day without the explicit permission of an authorized district employee, it will result in the confiscation of the cellphone and adherence to the following graduated offenses stated below. Authorized district employees who will be responsible for cellphone confiscation will include: administrators and teachers.
1st Offense
Phone will be kept in the assistant principal’s office for the day, parent is contacted.
Student or parent can retrieve cellphone at the end of the day.
Offense noted on Focus with cellphone violation action code chosen.
2nd Offense
Phone will be kept in the assistant principal’s office for the day, parent is contacted.
Student or parent can retrieve cellphone at the end of the day.
Offense noted on Focus with cell phone violation action code chosen.
3rd Offense
Phone will be kept in the assistant principal’s office for the day, parent is contacted.
Warning to student and parent about additional consequences that will happen for non-compliance of cellphone-free environment.
Offense noted on Focus with cell phone violation action code chosen.
Student assigned school detention.
4th Offense
Phone will be kept in the assistant principal’s office for the day.
In-person meeting scheduled with parent.
Offense noted on Focus with cellphone violation action code chosen.
Student assigned lunch detention.
5th Offense
Phone will be kept in the assistant principal’s office for the day, parent is contacted.
Offense noted on Focus with cellphone violation action code chosen.
3 days of ISS assigned.
6th Offense and beyond
Violations of the cellphone policy beyond the fifth offense may result in the assignment of out-of-school suspension
AT TERRACE ELEMENTARY, If cell phones become a pervasive problem in a grade level, the teachers will collect cell phones from students at the beginning of the day and keep them in locked storage until the end of the school day when they will be returned to the student.
