Families' Role and Conduct Expectations

We realize that Oakwood families have chosen to bring their children here because they care about their child’s welfare and success, and they believe that their children will be loved and respected. Family members volunteer in our classrooms, chaperone our field trips, attend our events, and provide leadership for our fundraising efforts. Without them, we couldn’t be who we are!

Our parent support group is the Parent Service Auxiliary (PSA). The PSA plays a vital role in creating a sense of community and provides meaningful service to our school by hosting social events for our families and staff, sponsoring major fundraisers, lending assistance with community outreach programs, and providing classroom support.

We endeavor to make Oakwood a positive place for our families. A constructive working relationship between Oakwood and a student’s parent(s) or guardian(s), or other individuals interacting with Oakwood or the Oakwood community by virtue of their relationship with a student, is essential to the fulfillment of the school’s mission, educational objectives, and operations. For these reasons, the agreement between Oakwood School and families requires parents and other individuals interacting with the school or the school community by virtue of their relationship with a student to support the school’s philosophy of education and its implementation and operation of the day-to-day school and classroom programs, as well as the school’s community expectations and guidelines, as expressed in this policy and other policies and procedures. 

Oakwood requires all students to show dignity, respect and courtesy to others in the school community. The school also expects parents/guardians to model the same standards of dignity, respectful and courteous behavior in their communications with others at the school. The school reserves the right to suspend, expel, or otherwise remove a student from the school, or decline to re-enroll the student, if the Head of School concludes, in her sole discretion, that the actions of the student’s parents, or other individuals interacting with the school or the school community by virtue of their relationship with the student, impede Oakwood’s ability to meet its educational objectives or mission, disrupt school operations, are uncooperative, unreasonable, or unsupportive of the school, its administration, its faculty or staff, philosophy, rules, regulations, policies and standards, or make it difficult to have a positive or constructive relationship with the parents.