School+Policies

=School Policies=

Attendance:
In Philadelphia Girls Academy has a stong attendance policy, being as though we are a boarding school. We do not have many execptions on lateness, cutting class and/ditching. Our attdendance policy includes:
 * Students who are late must stay after school to attend detention to aquire what she has missed when the student was late.
 * Students lateness and absenses is only excused when the student's parent/guardian has sent a notice of a family death, doctor's appointment, dentist appointment, illness, and/or court appearince.
 * Only students with excused absences/lateness are allowed to make up work with the attent of reciceving full credit, any other absences/lateness will be allowed to make up work, but the student will only reciceve 75% of the credit.
 * If a student missed more than 15 days of school in 2-3 months they must attend grade recovery to bring up their grade.
 * If a student missed more than 50 days of school she must appear in front of the dean of students and the excutives of students and have a hearing of wether they will be exspelled or a less harsh punishment.
 * Students who have perfect attendance at the end of each marking period will recieve a exteneded curfew for the entire weekend.

Violence, Bullying and Fighting Policy
We ecourage our students to abide by **STW: Stop, Think, Walk Away.** Our policy also include:
 * If a student gets into one fight, they must complete a 30 day anger management class and a 5 day suspension.
 * If a student gets into two fights in the course of a year they must complete a 60 day anger management class and a 10 day suspension.
 * If a student gets into one fight during the course of a year they will be expelled with no chance of coming back.
 * Depeneding on how serious the fight was, the student/students will be expelled.
 * If a student starts the fight, along with the normal punishment they will have to complete a community service project that is to be completed during their suspension.
 * Weapons are prohibited.
 * Anything that is used to do harm is considered a weapon.
 * Because we trust our students, we do not have metal detectors, but students will be sublected to random searches.

Uniform Policy

 * We require students to wear uniforms.
 * Students must wear any type of shoe, a purple and black dresses or outfits. We require these so we can destinguish our students from [[image:prodImage.jpg width="214" height="245" align="right"]]visitors.

Cheating Policy

 * In the case of plagirizing, the student must redo the assignment and a additional essay on why what they did was wrong. Also it will lose 25% of the credit of the paper, meaing if it was good and you aquired a 100% it drops to an 75%.
 * If a student is caught cheating on a test or quiz they will have a half an hour detention every day that week and will obtain a zero.
 * If this happens more than 5 times the student will be expelled and to come back the next year, they must take a test that they must obtain a 85% on.