AF Amistad High School Family Handbook 2017-2018 | 22  If you would like to speak with the teacher following your visit, please contact them by phone or call the school to set up a follow up meeting. Teachers will generally be unable to meet or talk with you during their teaching time. If a visitor is coming to school to drop something off for a scholar or to leave a message, we still require that the visitor come first to the Main Office. For the sake of scholar safety, we cannot have anyone unannounced in the building. Partnership Code The school works very hard to create an environment where the school’s values permeate all interactions. Therefore, the school requires that all communication with parents be mutually respectful. The school will retain the right to end any meeting or phone conversation in which the volume, tone, or substance of the communication is disrespectful (name-calling or frequent interruptions), profane (cursing or profane language), or threatening. Moreover, when conversations have clearly gone past the point where productive problem-solving is an option, the school reserves the right to end the conversation and schedule additional time at a later date. At the same time, families have the right to end conversations if staff members are not displaying mutual respect and should reschedule for a later date. Families have the option of addressing the actions of a staff member during a meeting via the family concern procedure (see Appendix C for Addressing Family Concerns). The school will seek to “problem solve” the original concerns as well as the previous unsuccessful interaction. The school reserves the right to require parents, guardians, or community members who violate the Partnership Code to provide written requests for meetings, outlining the nature of the concern and with whom they would like to speak. The school also reserves the right to require parents who have violated the Partnership Code to either meet off- campus at an agreed-upon location (e.g. a public library, community center) and/or to meet on campus 30 minutes after school ends. The school reserves the right to bar an individual from the school site if there are repeated violations in order to ensure the safety of all scholars and staff and to ensure that there is a calm, productive, positive learning environment for all scholars. Closed Campus Achievement First takes the safety of our scholars very seriously. Once scholars have entered the school property for the day, they are not to leave the school property without permission of AFAHS staff. A scholar with permission to leave may only leave under the escort and supervision of an authorized adult – who has physically come to the office to sign a scholar out –except in special situations pre-approved by the Principal or Deans of Students and agreed to in writing by guardian and Principal or Deans of Students.