We believe... • Students are the main source that makes a school. Our class makes an impact on the school to try to make it better in any type of way.
• Bancroft Middle School’s leadership class helps not only the school but also the whole San Leandro community.
• The students have their own individual voices that need to be heard and that can be spoken by leadership students.
• We believe in helping the student body in any way possible.
• Empowered students are vehicles for positive change in their school and community.
• Student leaders have the responsibility to be positive role models.
• Leadership training programs are essential to allow developing leaders to achieve their full potential.
• Involvement in state and national programs enhances the local school's leadership development program.
Students' Rights
Receive appropriate educational programs.
Be informed about school and district rules and
regulations pertaining to students.
Attend school and class every day school is in session.
Attend school in an academic and social climate
that promotoes safety and respect.
Receive fair and reasonable treatment from those
who are responsibile for enforcing standards of student
conducts.
Be free from harassment, threats, or intimidation
(includes, but not limited to ethnic, racial, religious,
sexual, sexual another person that is unwelcome, personally
orientation), which are pervasive and offensive, that
lowers morale, and that therefore, create an intimidating,
hostile or offensive interferes with academic effectiveness.
learning atmosphere.
Respect for Self and Others
Students will treat others how they wish to be
treated.
Students will maintain respectful relationships with
peers including, but not limited to, keeping hands
to selves, not engaging in public displays of affection,
wearing appropriate clothing and contributing to a
campus free of profanity.
Students will be cooperative with all adults on campus
and accord them the respect they deserve. This
includes, but is not limited to, providing their names
to adults when asked, following adults’ directions,
and not talking back or being defiant to any adult
on campus.
Students will have respect and follow school rules
when in the entire Bancroft community (residential
neighborhood, creek, gas station, park, library, etc.). Students
who are found in violation of school rules in these
and other locations will be subject to disciplinary
consequences.
