Jasper High School
Jag News
Week of October 29, 2018
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General Announcements:
Yearbooks On Sale Now!
Random Metal Detector Searches at Secondary Campuses
Unleash Your Creative Potential with Reflections!
- Online Fee Payment
Handbook Statement Addition
Drop-Off Table, Third Party Vendor Deliveries, and Federal Food Guidelines
Plano ISD Stadium Rules
Yearbooks On Sale Now!
Yearbooks are now on sale for the lowest price of the year! Purchase yours by Friday, November 2nd. Go to www.jostensyearbooks.com to buy yours before prices go up!
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.
- 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.
Unleash Your Creative Potential with Reflections!
This Friday, Nov 2nd, is our PTSA Reflections due date! Please remember to bring all your artwork to the dropbox labeled "Reflections" located in the front office. The dropbox will be available starting on Wednesday, Oct 31st.
The 2018-19 PTA/PTSA Reflections Program Theme is is "Heroes Around Me." Get creative in one or more of the following arts categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, and Visual Arts.
There is no limit on the number of entries you may submit. Each entry must be the original work of the student with an individual entry form attached for every piece of work. All participants must have at least one 2018-19 Jasper PTSA member in the household by October 31, 2018. If you have any questions, please contact Pady Hoh at reflections@jasperptsa.org.
To print out the entry forms and view all rules, see the Texas PTA website at: https://www.txpta.org/reflections-participation
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.
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.
Plano ISD Stadium Rules:
The following rules are in effect at Plano lSD stadiums:
- Spectators may not enter the stadium with backpacks or duffel bags. Staff and security personnel, in their sole discretion, may determine what constitutes a prohibited backpack or duffle bag.
- Bags, purses and packages carried by spectators will be opened and inspected by security personnel or staff prior to entry-into the stadium.
- Alcoholic beverages, outside food or drink items, tobacco products and weapons are prohibited.
- Spectators are prohibited from bringing footballs or other balls into the stadium. Persons in possession of prohibited items or who refuse inspection of bags and/or packages will not be permitted to enter the stadium. Persons who violate these stadium rules may be ejected without refund.
- Body painting, other than on the face area, is not allowed.
- Masks and other face coverings are prohibited.
- All signs must. be positive, appropriate, promote the participants and not be unduly distracting or block the view of others.
- Patrons who leave the stadium will be required to purchase a ticket to re-enter.
- Only authorized personnel will be admitted onto the field.
- Air horns are prohibited per UIL rules.
- Animals, other than service animals, are not allowed in the stadium.
- Powder or throwing of powder is prohibited.
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.
Jagfest is Friday!
JAGFEST - Fall 2018
Friday 11/2 during Block Lunch for Students and Staff
Sponsored by Jasper HS PTSA
Food, DJ and Fun!
Students can enjoy food and treats from some of their favorite places.
Tickets on sale this week! Wednesday 10/31, Thursday 11/1 and Friday 11/2!
Look for tables near the cafeteria before school 8:15-9:00 and at Block Lunch.
Price list: 1 ticket = 1 dollar
(7-10 Tickets will get you a meal, drink and dessert, in most cases)
Chick-Fil-A
Chick-Fil-A Nuggets - 4 Tickets
Chick-Fil-A Sandwich - 4 Tickets
Panda Express
Orange Chicken with Rice - 5 Tickets
Fried Rice - 3 Tickets
Papa John's Pizza
Slice of Cheese - 3 Tickets
Slice of Pepperoni - 3 Tickets
Dippin' Dots - 3 Tickets
FANS Department
Turkey Leg - 5 Tickets
Funnel Cake - 1 Ticket
Jumbo Cookie - 1 Ticket
All Drinks (Coke, Sprite, Root Beer & Water) - 1 Ticket
NO REFUNDS WILL BE GIVEN - Purchase only the tickets you will use.
NO DISCOUNTS ON FOOD.
Jasper High School Goes Green:
We are excited to announce that Jasper High School will be implementing Green Initiatives at school to reduce our environmental impact. Mr. Bryan McCord, Jasper HS Assistant Principal, is the Green Team Leader and will be heading sustainability initiatives.
Some of the initiatives will be:
- educating and engaging students in reducing waste
- proper recycling and waste disposal habits
- zero waste events at school
- student participation in school and community litter clean-ups
- walk or bike to school
- maintaining the school garden
Why do we have to reduce our waste, change our habits, and be responsible? Simple answer: For our own health and happiness. We need clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and clean land space to live.
Who contributes to the polluted environment? We are the sole contributors of pollution in land, water, and air through enormous amounts of litter of all kinds.
What can we do? All of us can make small changes to achieve a reduced waste to zero waste lifestyle by being good environmental stewards. To start with, we can reduce our dependency on single use products, practice proper recycling habits, composting food waste, and teaching our children to do the right thing.
Look out for more announcements and to support the school Green Initiatives in any way you can.
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