Choices & Consequences Transitioning from Elementary to Middle School

Presenters Margaret Tutt Adams Manager/Chief Probation Officer & Kari Poss Probation Officer II

Choice Define Choice Consequence Define Consequence Choices = Consequences Choices = Consequences

Key thing to do before making a choice THINK

Identify As A Good or Bad Choice  Horse playing in the lunch line  Eating a cookie before dinner when you know the rule is “no cookie” before dinner  Wearing flip-flops outside during the winter  Studying for a Spelling test  Pushing a classmate  Obeying your parents or teacher  Using profane language  Taking someone’s personal property without permission  Writing a bomb threat on the school bathroom wall  Standing up on the bus when the bus is in motion

Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again.

Do you think, act or look the same as when you were a baby? What’s different? Do you act the same as when you were five years old? What’s different? What do you think will be different when you enter Middle School?

Choices Bullying Fighting Insulting/Hitting a Teacher Sharing your medicine Internet Usage Weapons

How would you feel if… Someone made fun of you Or Made unkind remarks about you or a friend or family member Always treat others in the manner in which you would like to be treated. We all have feelings!!

Speaking and/or writing “Threatening Words” and using words of a sexual nature, inappropriately

myspace and Facebook Do you keep your information private? Do you really know ALL of your friends online? Do your parents monitor your accounts? DON’T EVER GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION!!

Consequences “Disciplinary Referral” Sent to Principal ISS/Opportunity Room OSS Pending a Tribunal Hearing Law Enforcement Detention (Augusta RYDC) Juvenile Court (Judge) Probation

ALWAYS REMEMBER….. Choices Produce Consequences