• Welcome to Van Voorhis Elementary
  • Together: Nothing less than the best
  • Proud member of the Kentucky School District
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  • Mailing Address
  • Van Voorhis Elementary
  • 120 Folger St. Bldg. 5550
  • Fort Knox, KY 40121-6000
  • Principal: Laura Gibson
  • Phone: (502) 624-5854
  • Fax: (502) 624-7267

Suspension and Expulsion

Additional policies and procedures can be accessed in the Student Handbook (provided to all students).

Some choices that students make are more severe in nature. The school board has indicated that these choices are improper behavior. Students who exhibit such or similar misconduct while on school property or attending school sponsored activities will be subject to suspension and/or expulsion.

Quite recently Fort Knox 's Board of Education enacted a policy on knives. Having a blade of any kind at school may result in a three-day suspension. This particular policy has been selected to emphasize because there have been instances of students innocently having such instruments as Boy Scout knives or dissecting instruments. These are considered knives and will not be exempt.

Examples of Improper Behavior

  • Disruption of school activities or otherwise willfully disobeying or defying the valid authority of supervisors, teachers, administrators, school officials, or other personnel engaged in the performance of their duties.
  • The commission of an obscene act or the use of profanity or vulgarity.
  • Causing, attempting to cause, or threatening to cause physical injury to another person.
  • Committing robbery or extortion.
  • Unlawfully possessing, using, selling, or otherwise furnishing, or being under the influence of any controlled substance, alcoholic beverage, or intoxicant of any kind.
  • Possessing or using tobacco products.
  • Stealing or willfully or wantonly destroying, damaging or defacing school property or the personal property of school personnel or students, whether on school property or off. (Restitution will be sought by the district on its behalf and on the behalf of those affected.)
  • Electronic communications devices such as pagers or cellular telephones are prohibited for use on District property, at a school event or while enroute to or from school on a school bus. Pagers or cell phones must be kept at the school office, or the principal or activity supervisor shall confiscate the electronic communication device and, at a minimum, the principal will conduct a conference with the student's parents regarding this violation.
  • Engaging in other incorrigible bad conduct or conduct in violation of the laws of the State of Kentucky or of the United States on school property as well as off school property at school sponsored activities.
  • The foregoing provisions are general in nature and do not represent a strict limitation on the authority of the Superintendent to further identify specific examples of grounds for possible suspension and/or expulsion.

Corrective measures include but are not limited to:

  1. verbal prompt to "stop and think" and to "make a good choice"
  2. time-out in the classroom
  3. time-out in another room
  4. time-out in the Vice Principal or Principal's office
  5. parent notification
  6. in-school suspension
  7. suspension
  8. expulsion

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