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Wednesday Apr High schools seek codes At least one school trustee soys he doesnt understand why the Helton Board of Education needs to revamp Its code of student ben Trustees are currently examining guidelines which if approved April will go to Halton secondary school principals for further Input In accordance with Ministry of lion directives the board must have each secondary school develop and adopt its own code or behavior for stud Parents students and staff will all be involved in preparing a clear code for their school emphasizing what the ministry terms a sense of self worth and self discipline in students ing realistic and effective consequ ences for failure to meet its standards Our old code the 1977 Guideline for Student Behavior was good enough Milton Trustee Ivan Armstrong com pi Thursday night I can under stand where the ministry Is coming from wanting us to do this all over again Superintendent of schools Dean Fink a former Acton high school principal who is in charge of the project explained that the ministry wants to get the communities inv The process of putting a new code together is as im as the end re sult he said noting that the final product must conform with the board s 1977 guidelines This will involve the people who are supposed to live with the code trustee Pat Hillhouse added It won take any time out of some one classroom work While the In codes of behavior will apply to secondary school students Halton existing guidelines cover elementary schools as well