Visitors

Identification badges or visitor badges are required of everyone entering any Edina School building while classes are in session within the Edina Public School System. The office has visitor badges with lanyards to be worn by all non-staff persons in the building. Please sign-in at the office and obtain a visitor badge no matter how short your visit. The Concord staff has been asked to stop anyone not wearing a badge and have them report to the office.

Locked Doors

During regular school hours, all outside doors will be locked except for the main entrance. This provides additional security for students and staff and allows us to monitor adults in the building.

Safety Drills

Fire drills are practiced at least nine times each year. Correct practice makes the process of evacuation automatic should we ever have a real emergency. We encourage all families to practice fire drills in their homes.

Take cover drills are practiced in the fall and spring and students are instructed on safety practices during tornado watches and warnings.

A bus evacuation drill is held early in the school year and again in the spring.

Weapons Policy

Students and non-students, including adults and visiting youths, are forbidden to knowingly or voluntarily possess, store in an area subject to one’s control, handle, transmit or use any instrument that is considered a weapon or “look-alike” weapon in school, on school grounds, at school activities, at bus stops, on buses, or at school events.

The procedure for any student found to be in possession of a weapon is as follows:

1. Confiscation of the weapon or "look alike"
2. Notification of the superintendent
3. Notification of the parent/guardian
4. Disciplinary action as stated in Rights and Responsibilities for Student Management.

A student who finds a weapon on the way to school, on school property, or in the school building and takes it immediately to the principal’s office or to an adult staff member will not be considered in possession of a weapon. Appropriate measures shall be taken in these cases.

Harassment Policy

The Edina School District prohibits discrimination, harassment or violence on the basis of sex, race, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, or public assistance status. Among the acts prohibited by this policy are sexual harassment and sexual violence. (A complete copy of the District Harassment Policy can be obtained from the principal.)