2016-2017 PARENT-STUDENT HANDBOOK De Smet Jesuit High School 233 North New Ballas Road Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (314) 567-3500 www.desmet.org DE SMET JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL Parent and Student Handbook Dear Parents: Your knowledge of the information in the Student and Parent Handbook is essential for the efficient operation of the school. Please review this handbook and discuss the guidelines with your son. Each student and his parents must sign a copy of the signature form (that your son will receive the first day of school) and return it to his homeroom teacher. Signing this form indicates that both the student and his parents have read the handbook, including policies regarding acceptable use of computers, and agree to abide by these policies. Additionally, signing this signature page acknowledges your legal and financial responsibility to De Smet Jesuit High School. Also, in an effort to communicate more efficiently, De Smet Jesuit requires at least one current parent/guardian e-mail address. Your son is to return this signed form to his homeroom teacher during the first full week of school. Friday, August 26, 2016 is the deadline. Students will be removed from the De Smet Jesuit network if they have not returned this form by August 26, 2016. There may be a 24-48 hour delay in receiving network privileges if a signed agreement is returned after that date. Additionally, an electronic version of this handbook is available at www.desmet.org. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - HANDBOOK AND COMPUTER POLICY SIGNATURE FORM __________________________________ ________________________________ NAME OF STUDENT (PLEASE PRINT) SR / JR / SO / FR ___________________________________ ______________ ______________ STUDENT SIGNATURE HOMEROOM STUDENT NO. __________________________________ ________________________________ E-MAIL (FATHER) E-MAIL (MOTHER) ________________________________ ________________________________ PARENT SIGNATURE DATE 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS History of the School .......................................................................... 3 Mission Statement .............................................................................. 3 Profile of Graduate at Graduation ...................................................... 4 Campus Ministry ................................................................................ 5 Guidance and Counseling Program .................................................... 9 Academic Program ........................................................................... 11 Student Discipline Guidelines .......................................................... 23 Anti-Bullying Policy……………………………………………..37 Computer Acceptable Use Policy... .................................................. 46 Library Policies ................................................................................ 49 Student Activities Programs ............................................................. 50 Spartan Athletic Program ................................................................. 51 2 HISTORY De Smet Jesuit High School began in the early 1960s under the leadership of Fr. John Choppesky, S.J. and Fr. Gregory Jacobsmeyer, S.J. Classes began on September 5, 1967, and the school was dedicated on February 25, 1968. With each new year, De Smet Jesuit added another class to the student body. On June 2, 1971, the school held its First Annual Commencement. De Smet Jesuit enrolls approximately 750-800 students from the entire metropolitan area. The curriculum is college preparatory and involves programs in personal formation, athletics, and religious formation. FR. PIERRE DE SMET, S.J. In the history of the westward expansion of the United States, one of the pivotal figures was Fr. Pierre De Smet, S.J. He was born in Termonde, Belgium, in January 1801, and entered the Jesuit novitiate in Maryland in 1821. He arrived in St. Louis with twelve other Jesuits in 1823 to open a school for Native Americans near Florissant, Missouri. At the invitation of Bishop Rosati, he was among the Jesuits who took over the direction of the small college founded in 1818 by Bishop DuBourg. This school would be chartered by the State of Missouri in 1832 as Saint Louis University. In 1838, Fr. De Smet made the first of many overland journeys to establish missions among the Native Americans. The first mission was at Council Bluffs, Iowa, among the Pottawatomie tribe. In 1842, Fr. De Smet became the first Jesuit missionary to travel to the Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest. Fr. De Smet was able to win the confidence of both the Native Americans and the white settlers. The Native Americans called him “Blackrobe” and held him in high regard. In 1868, Fr. De Smet visited the camp of Sitting Bull in the Big Horn Valley of Montana, although this chief had vowed to kill any white man to show himself there. Sitting Bull welcomed him and agreed to a conference that eventually ended hostilities. Fr. De Smet was called upon regularly to arbitrate treaty conditions during the latter years of the 19th century. Fr. De Smet traveled more than a quarter of a million miles over the Western Plains and across the Atlantic to Europe in the service of the Native American tribes. He died on Ascension Thursday, 1873, at the age of 72. MISSION STATEMENT OF DE SMET JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL De Smet Jesuit inspires and prepares men for and with others to transform the world. Ad majorem Dei gloriam 3 PROFILE OF THE DE SMET JESUIT GRADUATE AT GRADUATION OPEN TO GROWTH The De Smet Jesuit high school student at the time of graduation has matured as a person - emotionally, intellectually, physically, socially, religiously - to a level that reflects some intentional responsibility for one’s own growth. The graduate is beginning to reach out in his development, seeking opportunities to stretch one’s mind, imagination, feelings, and religious consciousness. INTELLECTUALLY COMPETENT By graduation, the De Smet Jesuit high school student will exhibit a mastery of those academic requirements for advanced forms of education. While these requirements are broken down into departmental subject matter areas, the student will have developed many intellectual skills and understandings that cut across and go beyond academic requirements for college entrance. The student is also developing habits of intellectual inquiry, as well as a disposition towards life-long learning. The student is beginning to see the need for intellectual integrity in his personal quest for religious truth and in his response to issues of social justice. RELIGIOUS By graduation, the De Smet Jesuit high school student will have a basic knowledge of the major doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church. Having been introduced to Ignatian spirituality, the graduate will also have examined his own religious feelings and beliefs with a view to choosing a fundamental orientation toward God and establishing a relationship with a religious tradition and / or community. What is said here, respectful of the conscience and religious background of the individual, also applies to the non-Catholic graduate of a Jesuit high school. The level of theological understanding of the Jesuit high school graduate will naturally be limited by the student’s level of religious and human development. LOVING By graduation, the De Smet Jesuit high school student is continuing to form his own identity. He is moving beyond self-interest or self-centeredness in close relationships. The graduate is beginning to be able to risk some deeper levels of a relationship in which one can disclose self and accept the mystery of another person and cherish that person. Nonetheless, the graduate’s attempt at loving, while clearly beyond childhood, may not yet reflect the confidence and freedom of an adult. COMMITTED TO JUSTICE The De Smet Jesuit high school student at graduation has acquired considerable knowledge of the many needs of local, national, and global communities. He is preparing for the day when he will take a place in these communities as a competent, concerned and responsible member. The graduate has been inspired to develop the awareness and skills necessary to live in a global society as a person for and with others. Although this commitment to doing justice will come to fruition in mature adulthood, some predispositions will have begun to manifest themselves earlier. DEVELOPING AS A LEADER The De Smet Jesuit high school student is aware of his responsibility to be a leader in the Ignatian tradition of service and collaboration. He has had opportunities to exercise leadership in academic, co-curricular, and pastoral activities. 4 GENERAL POLICIES At De Smet Jesuit High School, clear communication between all of its stakeholders (parents, students, teachers, counselors, administration) is necessary. If a conflict exists between a student and teacher, the parents should first discuss the issue with their son before bringing it to the teacher or counselor. Conflicts should be resolved close to the situation (i.e. classroom) first between the student and the teacher. The parents are expected to deal with conflicts respectfully. If parents do not conduct themselves in such a manner, they place at risk their son’s attendance at De Smet Jesuit High School as determined by the school’s administration. CAMPUS MINISTRY Being Catholic is a priority at De Smet Jesuit. The Campus Ministry Department cares for the Christian faith life of all those connected with De Smet

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