1. Do Stakeholders in Manitowoc County Support the creation of a code of conduct policy for Manitowoc County Youth Apprenticeship Students?Kari Krull

2. Question and Why? Do Stakeholders in Manitowoc County Support the creation of a code of conduct policy for Manitowoc County Youth Apprenticeship Students? Statement of the Problem Although small in numbers, there have been incidents involving youth apprenticeship students over the years that have prompted the consideration of creating a code of conduct for youth apprentices similar to a school district’s extra-curricular and athletic code. Participating school’s administrations have expressed concern for the lack of penalty on youth apprentices when negative or illegal behaviors take place. Administrators feel that students involved in the Manitowoc County youth apprenticeship program should be held accountable for behaviors inside and outside of the school day based on the flexibility and freedom involved with this program. Currently youth apprenticeship students don’t sign or participate in a code of conduct nor is the youth apprenticeship program a part of any co-curricular or athletic code policy for any of the participating school districts. The Manitowoc County Youth Apprenticeship Program does have students, parents, employers, school liaisons, and the county coordinator sign a contract prior to the student’s start of employment. This contract, however, doesn’t reference student behaviors other than related instruction grades and obligations to abide by workplace standards set forth by the employers.

3. Summary of Literature Review Challenging to find relevant articles on athletic codes, code of conducts, behavior codes, etc… Many searches found many unrelated articles that didn’t benefit my research Finding any articles or research from the past five years was even a greater challenge

4. Study Surveyed all Manitowoc County Youth Apprenticeship Employers (Stakeholders) 23 surveys sent out with 1st quarter grading materials in mid October, 11 surveys returned Some surveys faxed with only front of survey and not back Survey 10 questions, 1-5 rating scale (1-Strongly disagree, 3 Neutral, and 5- Strongly Agree) Questions- support of creation of code of conduct, enforcement, incident examples and consequences, comments, continued participation in program if implemented.

5. Results Two most important results- will they support the code of conduct and will they be less inclined to participate in the program if they had to enforce this. Most Neutral scores had comments that stated most employers have employee policies and hold employees accountable to these- how would the code differ or possibly change/conflict with these workplace policies.

6. Recommendations Create a code of conduct draft and send for feedback from employers Have a newly created employer code of conduct advisory committee to work through process of writing code Have schools possibly add Youth Apprenticeship to their current extra/intra curricular codes (explore this idea) Manage what is managable and within means of program