By Friday, every class on campus will have something new on the wall: treatment agreements. These classroom expectations are part of a Frisco ISD initiative designed to improve the overall health of everybody during the 2021-2022 school year.

“Part of it is that if we can figure out before we actually get started on the hard work, what we expect from a teacher, what we like in a classroom, what teachers expectations are, and figuring out what happens if we don’t follow procedures,” associate principal Stacey Whaling said. “This means we can be more proactive in our relationship building, so there isn’t, a lot of excuses to say, ‘I didn’t know the kids were going to feel that way’ or ‘I didn’t know the teacher was going to feel that way’, it’s getting that all out of the way and it’s different for every class, which is why each class has a treatment agreement.”

Treatment agreements are becoming increasingly used, both in schools and in large companies.

“I think the treatment agreement is a good thing because I learned that other businesses such as Chase Bank are actually doing this when they do business agreements so I think that there is real-life application behind them,” science teacher Mattison Cantrell said. “I think that it depends on the teacher, a lot of students picked really vague things that might be hard to enforce, such as respect, so I tried to dig into what respect means.”

Students and teachers are expected to create a list of ways that both students and teachers should be treated on campus.

“I think that treatment agreements are a good idea because it sets expectations for the year and lets students know how to act in class,” junior Isabelle Raade said. “I also think that they should continue it because it’s a great ice breaker for the first day and we can know what is expected of the students and teachers. I think that some teachers will enforce them and some may give out punishments because some teachers are very particular about how we treat each other.”

Some students believe that the agreement will help to mandate the behavior of students and teachers, but others, such as sophomore Sathvik Kothapalli believe that they serve little purpose.

“I don’t like the agreements because they are kind of cringe to be honest because it’s common sense to not be mean to others,” Kothapalli said. “It’s fine if enforced. I don’t have a problem with it, although it shouldn’t be the basis of friendship. I don’t think that they should use these in the future years because it should not be taught like this and people should be punished when they do something wrong, which once again counts back to common sense.”