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Under PR School Board Policy #816: Use of Video classroom textbook will be provided to the student for use
Surveillance Cameras, the district is permitted to use video while in class.
surveillance in any school building, on school district Requests to borrow textbooks over the summer must go
property, or on any transportation vehicle being used by the through the school office. Parents must sign out these
district. The district does monitor district buildings, property textbooks and return them by the beginning of August.
and transportation vehicles with surveillance cameras and
individuals using any such facilities should expect that such TIPS HOTLINE
surveillance may occur. In addition, the use of audio Tips concerning threats to the safety of the school and any
recordings is permitted on school district transportation of its members may be made by calling 724-449-TIPS
vehicles (PR School Board Policy #810.2). If audio (8477). All calls to the TIPS Hotline are confidential. The
recording is being used on a district transportation vehicle, a state of Pennsylvania has instituted the Safe 2 Say
notice indicating that such recording may occur will be Something anonymous reporting system, which is accessible
placed within the vehicle. via app, phone, or internet. The phone number is 1-844-5-
SAYNOW, or you can visit https://www.safe2saypa.org/ to
TELEPHONES report anonymously.
A phone for local calls is located in the front lobby opposite
the office for student use. There is no charge to use this
phone. Students must have a pass from their teacher VENDING MACHINES
allowing them to use the phone during school hours. Snack and beverage machines are located in the hall beside
the auditorium. Vending machines are accessible only after
TERRORISTIC THREATS OR ACTS dismissal. Students requiring a snack after school must have
Students are prohibited from communicating terroristic their own change. The office does not have change for the
threats or committing terroristic acts directed at any student, vending machines.
employee, school director, community member, or school
building. Terroristic threat - shall mean a threat VISITORS
communicated either directly or indirectly to commit any When visiting the middle school during regular school
crime of violence with the intent to terrorize another; to hours, parents or other school visitors must press the
cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly or facility intercom button to the left of the front doors and identify
of public transportation; or to otherwise cause serious public themselves to gain entry into the school. Once inside,
inconvenience, or cause terror or serious public visitors must enter the interior door to the left and report
inconvenience with reckless disregard of the risk of causing directly to the main office. If going beyond the office into
such terror or inconvenience. All threats spanning grades K- other areas of the building, visitors must present a valid
12 whether communicated verbally, in writing, through driver’s license to the office, which will be scanned into our
gestures, or through other means such as phone calls, Raptor system and a visitor’s badge issued to be worn at all
pictures/graphics, or electronic transmission will be taken times while in the building. Visitors must also sign out when
seriously and investigated thoroughly. Students making a leaving the building by scanning their visitor’s badge at the
threat or committing such acts may be suspended Raptor kiosk in the office. School personnel will meet their
immediately. The threat or act will be promptly reported to visitors in the office and escort them to their destination.
law enforcement officers. The Pine-Richland School Board Please note that we do not honor individual student requests
may recommend that the student be permanently expelled to bring visitors from other schools or out-of-town friends or
from PRSD. It is the responsibility of the staff and students relatives during the regular school day.
to responsibly report terroristic threats and acts. Any student
supplying falsifying information shall be subject to WEAPONS
disciplinary action. Pursuant to PR Board Policy No. 218.1 and Pennsylvania
law, students are prohibited from possessing or bringing on
TEXTBOOKS to the school premises any weapon. Weapons prohibited by
Textbooks for all students are provided at no cost. Every this policy include, but are not limited to, knives, cutting
student is obligated to give books the best of care. instruments, cutting tools, nunchaku, firearms, shotguns,
rifles, Tasers, and stun guns, explosive devices, and/or any
In general, each textbook has a number and teachers keep other common household item, tool, instrument or
track of which student has which textbook. It is very implement capable of inflicting serious bodily injury, as well
important that students put their names in every textbook. as any tool, implement or instrument represented or
In case of loss, teachers fill out a Student Charge form. reasonably capable of being perceived as such a weapon.
Another book is issued to the student and the teacher turns
the form into the office where it will be kept until the end of Students cannot interfere with the normal activities,
the school year, at which time the charge for the lost occupancy, or use of any building or portion of the school
textbook will be mailed home for payment. The charge will campus by exhibiting, using, or threatening to exhibit or use
also be entered in the student’s Sapphire website account a dangerous weapon or its look-alike. Any student who
(replacing Home Access) where it will carry over and brings or possesses a weapon on school property at any
accumulate from year to year until required to be paid prior school-sponsored activity or on any public conveyance
to graduation. Students must make adequate compensation providing transportation to a school or school-sponsored
for textbooks that they lose or damage. activity shall be expelled for a period of not less than one
year. However, the superintendent, at his or her discretion,
Students will only receive one set of textbooks. If medical may recommend discipline short of expulsion on a case-by-
issues require that a set of textbooks be kept at home, the case basis. Such students will also be referred to local law
school-issued set of textbooks will remain at home and a enforcement authorities for criminal prosecution.

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