The Honor Level System is the result of more than two decades of development. Created to meet the needs of one middle school in western Washington, it is now used with more than 90,000 youngsters in schools across America. Today, high schools, junior high schools, middle schools and elementary schools use it to track their discipline.
In the 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Congress attempted to respond to school administrators’ concerns about how to create safe school environments and the conditions under which a child with disabilities may be removed from school if he or she is considered to be a danger to himself or others.