Safe Schools Policy
Odyssey teachers, staff, and parents are dedicated to the creation of a “Safe School.” In accordance with state and federal regulations, OCS has established a “Safe Schools Policy.”
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“It is the policy of the Odyssey Charter School to promote a safe and orderly educational environment for all students and employees. Accordingly, OCS holds all students, employees, and other adults to the highest standards of behavior on Odyssey Charter School grounds and during school-sponsored activities. Criminal acts or disruptive behavior of any kind will not be tolerated and any individual who engages in such activity will be subject to disciplinary action, prosecution, or both” (Odyssey Charter Safe Schools Procedures).
Objective: Odyssey Charter School’s students, staff, parents and visitors should be able to experience an environment that is safe and conducive to learning and free from disruption and/or hostility. Odyssey’s safe-school environment includes; during school, after school, all of Odyssey’s property, activities, and when the school is providing transportation. The codes are references to state and federal regulations for school” (Odyssey Charter Safe Schools Procedures).
Safety Corner
In our effort to continuously improve safety at Odyssey, we are concentrating on visitor check in process. All visitors must check in with the front office. Once they have done this, they will check in on the front office computer and receive a badge to wear while they are in the school.
Badges allow Odyssey to know who is in the school at all times in case of an emergency. In addition, we can easily read the visitors name and where they are visiting or volunteering. It is school policy all visitors and parents wear a badge while in the school, even if in the school on a regular basis.
Identification will be required when checking out a student. Students will not be called down to the office until identification has been checked and the student has been checked out on the computer at the front office.
Safety Committee Info
The safety committee is continually committed to making Odyssey Charter School a safer place for our students, teachers, staff and community. To this end, we have instituted the following:
- Fire evacuation routes – located in each classroom and break out room.
- Monthly fire drills – as required by law. We have always been out of the building in less than 3 minutes which is the state goal.
- Emergency Backpacks in each classroom – armed with flashlights, blankets, band-aids and other emergency supplies.
- Earthquake Preparedness – the current standard from FEMA, ARC and the State of Utah is drop, cover & hold.
- Inner building safety – ceilings intact, no extension cords, and no papers within 18″ of the ceilings, hallways and classrooms cleared of obtrusive obstacles, etc.
- Classroom safety procedures: lock down, gaseous leaks, intruders, etc.
- Fire extinguisher use class
- Classes to certify first responders in first aid, CPR and AED.
- Fully functional sickroom with needed supplies.
Meta Data Dictionary:
Odyssey Charter School participates in the Utah Student Data Privacy Alliance (USPA). The USPA is a collection of Utah schools and districts that share common concerns around student privacy. The goal of the USPA is to set standards of both practice and expectations around student privacy so all parties involved have a common understanding of expectations. Please click the link below to see the vendors with which we share student information.