PTHS Student Handbook 2026-2027

Fourth and subsequent offenses – The device will be confiscated. The student will be assigned two days of in-school suspension. The student’s parent/guardian will be notified. The student may also face consequences for insubordination. School officials may conduct an investigation or require a student to cooperate in an investigation if there is specific information about activity on the student’s account on a social networking website that violates a school disciplinary rule or policy. In the course of an investigation, the student may be required to share the content that is reported in order to allow school officials to make a factual determination. INTERNET SAFETY Pontiac Township High School is taking appropriate measures to comply with the Child Internet Protection Act. Technology protection measures have been put into place to block or filter Internet access. It protects minors from visual depictions that are obscene, child pornography, or — with respect to use of computers with Internet access by minors — harmful to minors. The filter can be disabled for certain adults that are using the Internet for bona fide research or other lawful purposes. On-line activities of minors are also monitored. PTHS is compliant with new legislation providing internet safety education and resources. INTERNET THREATS Making an explicit threat on an Internet website against a school employee, a student, or any school-related personnel if the Internet website through which the threat was made is a site that was accessible within the school at the time the threat was made or was available to third parties who worked or studied within the school grounds at the time the threat was made, and the threat could be reasonably interpreted as threatening to the safety and security of the threatened individual because of his or her duties or employment status or status as a student inside the school. Students who make an explicit threat will be handled on an individual basis by the administration. Consequences may range from verbal reprimand to expulsion. STUDENT LOCKERS Each year students may be assigned a different locker. Students having locker trouble are to come into the office and report the problem. Students will be held responsible for damages that occur to their locker during the school year. Student lockers are the property of the school. Lockers may be searched by school personnel or any designee acting as an agent of the school at any time, with or without the knowledge of the student. No sticker decals, writing, or items that are not school related are to be displayed on student lockers. You will be required to clean your locker if writing or sticker decals are found on it. You may use magnets to hang up pictures on the inside of your locker. Pictures in lockers cannot be immoral or indecent or advertise drugs and/or alcohol. It is your responsibility to keep your locker locked and your combination confidential. Students have no reasonable expectation for privacy in school-issued lockers. GYM BAGS/CARRYALLS/BOOK BAGS/PURSES No gym bags, carryalls, purses, and book bags will be permitted to be carried to class during school hours. Gym bags, carryalls, purses, and book bags may be brought to school and placed in the student’s locker before school and not retrieved until after the final bell. Students carrying bags, carryalls, and purses to class during normal school hours will be handled on an individual basis by the administration.