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Attendance In an effort to ensure the safety of all of our students, we require identification BEFORE releasing a student to anyone. Please keep in mind that emergency cards that were filled out by parents are for emergency purposes only and cannot be used to authorize the picking up of a student for any other reason. Any student being picked up for appointments or other reasons by someone other than their parent or legal guardian (ex. Step-parent, Grandparents, siblings, etc) MUST provide written permission by parent/legal guardian along with a copy of parents drivers license or I.D. attached to the written permission. In addition, the person picking up the student must provide identification. Absences totaling 3 consecutive days require a doctors note. Doctors notes MUST be turned in within 5 days of the last absence. Out of town absences are generally unexcused unless prearranged and approved by an administrator. Parents or legal guardians MUST call in an absence. Call-ins cannot be accepted by student, brother, sister, etc. Students with doctors notes with limitations such as no PE, elevator use, etc. MUST be seen by the Nurse first. School district policy provides that absences are excused for illness, family emergencies, and school closings. Awards Awards assemblies take place at the end of the year. Any “U” will keep a student from being included on A and AB Honor Roll and related Honor Roll activities for that six weeks. A student who receives 3 or more “U’s” within the 1st 5 six weeks will not receive an award at the awards ceremony. If a student is placed in In-School Suspension (ISS) or Discipline Alternative Education Program (DAEP) at the time of the awards ceremony, the student may not attend the ceremony. Backpacks Students are allowed to bring backpacks to and from school only. No backpacks are allowed in the classroom. Backpacks will be left in the student’s hall locker. Backpacks are not allowed in physical education class. Bicycles Students are allowed to ride bicycles to and from school. Before entering and exiting the Hornedo campus, the student must walk his/her bicycle on to/off of the campus and into/out of the bicycle rack area. Safety rules must be followed at all times or bicycle privileges will be revoked. Students must provide bike chains and/or locks. A reminder that bicycles are the only mode of transportation, other than an automobile, that may be used on, to, from campus. Skateboards, roller blades, shoes with wheels, scooters, etc. are not allowed on campus, parking lots, or sidewalks. Binders Students must have a three-ring binder with paper, pencil and pen. Dividers for binders are recommended for better organization. These supplies must be purchased by the student for use throughout the school year. Teachers will not supply these materials to any student. It is the student’s responsibility to attend class with necessary textbooks and required materials. Bookroom Hours are from 7:30 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. All lost books which are returned to students by the book room clerk may be assessed a fine for each book. Cafeteria Bring your lunch, eat in the cafeteria, or buy from the snack bar. Please remember to return or dispose of all utensils and trays, lunch sacks, and napkins to the proper places. We want to strive in keeping the building and grounds clean at all times. If at any time a student is misusing the cafeteria, he/she will be expected to complete community service hours (lunch detention) for the school by assisting the custodial staff for the last 10-minutes of a lunch period. Any student participating in lunch detention will not be allowed to use the snack bar. Community service hours are based on an individual basis. Cell Phone Use Pay phones are available in the building for all students. The District prohibits students from using paging devices (any telecommunication device that emits an audible signal, vibrates, displays a message, or otherwise summons or delivers a communication to the possessor including but not limited to cell phones, mobile phones or other telecommunication devices) while participating in school-sponsored or school-related activities on or off school property during the instructional day and while instruction is being conducted. If your child brings a cell phone to school, your child should leave his/her cell phone turned off and in their hall locker. Cell phones will be confiscated if the above District policy is violated, and a $15.00 charge will be applied to have the cell phone returned to the student. Also, see unauthorized electronic and telecommunication devices. Cheerleaders Hornedo will only have an 8th grade cheerleading squad composed of six members. We also include our seventh grade students in the process who will be the Hornedo cheerleading squad, also composed of six members. In order to be eligible to try-out, the student cannot have any disciplinary referrals to the office and must maintain a “B” average in each core subject for the first five grading periods. Try-outs are held in May. Cheating Cheating of any kind, including sharing and/or copying work using computer software to copy or download and/or transfer assignments to another student, etc. will not be tolerated. This type of activity will result in a zero for that grade and a “U” in citizenship for that six weeks for all students involved. Conferences In order to address your concerns; please follow the suggested protocol:
Teacher Conferences Should you need a conference with a teacher(s), call the office and the message will be given to the teacher. Administrator Conferences Parents are to schedule conferences with administrators through the main office. Administrators are on duty before school, during lunch, and after school for ground duty. Please schedule conferences in accordance with the duty hours of the administrators. Note: No administrative conferences will be scheduled throughout the lunch shifts Delivery of Student Gifts We can not accept student gift deliveries of any kind, such as balloons, baskets, flowers, etc. Disciplinary Explanations Detention and/or Community/School Service - A student may be required to serve detention before/after school or during lunch. The amount of time is determined by the teacher and/or administrator. Possible reasons for detention, but not limited to may be: tardiness, disruption in class, halls, cafeteria, or other minor violations to the Student Code of Conduct. In-School Suspension (ISS) - A separate designated classroom in which the student is placed to complete his/her regular class assignments and any additional assignment given by the ISS teacher. It is the student’s responsibility to make sure that all regular class assignments are completed. An administrator may place a student in the ISS classroom for a limited period of time for some of the following reasons, but not limited to: persistent misbehavior, no-show for detention, disruption in/out of class, insubordination, rude/disrespectful behavior or not following the District/school Code of Conduct. In-school suspension may limit field trip or any other privileges. If a student is in ISS on a non-uniform day, he/she MUST wear the school uniform. Suspension - A student may be suspended from school for violations of the Student Code of Conduct. Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP) - This is a self-contained classroom in which the student is placed for a minimum of 6 weeks. The dress code guidelines are school approved navy or khaki pants and a navy or ash/gray T-shirt. NO club/athletic/etc. shirts are allowed while in DAEP. The student will receive a new schedule and will receive direct instruction from a certified teacher. DAEP students are not allowed to attend any school or school-sponsored activities. DAEP students are not to be on any EPISD school campus except arriving and departing school for attendance purposes only. DAEP results from a student not following the District/School Code of Conduct not limited to any of the above violations. No VISA card will be issued to an Alternative Program student. This includes any DAEP students exiting the DAEP classroom. Students may receive after school detentions, community service, and/or other reasonable consequences for classroom or school violations while in DAEP. At no time during DAEP placement are students to be out of uniform. Parents of DAEP are responsible for transportation to and from school based on the DAEP school hours. La Farelle Alternative School - EPISD’s off-campus Discipline Alternative Education Program. Note to ALL student transfers: If there are any problems with discipline, attendance, or low grades due to lack of effort, TRANSFER PERMISSION MAY BE REVOKED. Dress Code Public schools are delegated with the responsibility of educating students and maintaining an effective and orderly environment conducive to learning. American public schools are facing violence on campus at an unprecedented rate. The National School Board Association estimates that approximately 135,000 guns are brought to America’s 85,000 public schools on a daily basis. To counter violence in classrooms and to improve the quality of education, dress codes are being implemented throughout our nation’s public schools. Dress codes promote school safety by decreasing school violence and serve to enhance the learning environment of schools. Many public school administrators maintain that dress codes reflect community values and create a positive educational environment. According to educators, dress codes promote student self-respect, maintain classroom discipline, discourage peer pressure to buy extravagant clothing, and make classrooms safer. (M. Madrid, E. Garcia, Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris, and Sisk, P.A.). Brown Middle School follows a dress code. Please see attached Dress Code information sheet for specific guidelines. Tucking shirts into bottoms will be enforced on any oversized clothing. Oversized clothing will be determined by teachers and/or administration. Violation(s) of the dress code will result in disciplinary action. Family Vacations Family vacation absences are not excused under EPISD policy. Make-up work MAY BE MADE-UP AT TEACHER'S DISCRETION. NO ADVANCE WORK WILL BE GIVEN. This does not apply to family emergencies or illness. Forgotten Items If a child forgets to bring an item to school, please bring the item to the office to be held. We have limited resources for delivery of items and we cannot disturb class. It is the student's responsibility to check in the office, as he/she will not be allowed out of class to call or check. Gum No gum chewing allowed on campus. A teacher will issue a “U” in deportment on the 3rd violation. Guns or Toy Look-Alike Guns These items ARE NOT ALLOWED on campus. Illness at School Hut Brown Middle School has a full-time school nurse on duty. If a student is injured or becomes ill while at school, he/she should report to the nurse's office for treatment. The nurse will contact the child's parents if he/she needs to go home or receive further medical attention. Students should not call or text parents directly or leave campus without checking out through the nurse and the attendance office. Any student that leaves campus without checking out through the nurse and attendance office will be marked truant for the remainder of the day. Injury Pertaining to Physical Education Class
Lockers All students will be issued hall lockers in the main building as well as the gym locker rooms. Each student will be expected to furnish his/her own lock for the hall locker and for the physical education locker. It is important that the student remember his/her locker key/combination each day. Students will be allowed to go to their lockers before the Advisory school bell rings, before and after lunch, before and after Physical Education class, and after school. We require that students give their advisory teacher a key or combination to the hall locker and the PE teacher a key or combination to their PE locker. This saves the expense of having to cut the lock and replace it. (Note: If a student places his/her lock on a locker not assigned to him/her, the lock will be cut off at the owner's expense) Students will be responsible for ALL items in their lockers. In order to improve the safety of student’s possessions in the locker, please have students check to ensure the lock is properly closed. Students are expected to keep these lockers locked at all times except when being used. Students MUST label all uniform clothing, accessories, personal property, and textbooks. The school can not be responsible for student’s belongings. If a student has an item stolen, the student should promptly file a report in the office for administrative investigation. Not all investigations are guaranteed to return items to student. In order to make it fair for all students, teachers will rotate top and bottom lockers at semester. Lockers are to be kept clean and neat. Students are not allowed to share lockers without teacher approval because this can lead to thefts and lost property. Jewelry purses, all electronic devices, and large amounts of money or valuables should be left at home. BRING THESE ITEMS AT YOUR OWN RISK! These lost/stolen items will not be investigated. Lost and Found Lost and Found is located in the Bookroom. If items are not collected before Winter Holidays and again at the end of the school year, ALL items in Lost and Found WILL be donated to charity groups. Students should periodically check the Bookroom for lost and found items. To aid in the recovery of all lost items, all items of clothing and school supplies should be permanently labeled. Lunch Procedures Hornedo is a closed campus. This means that students are not allowed to leave the campus during school hours, unless accompanied by a parent for a doctor's appointment, etc. Students are required to remain at school during lunch unless they have been issued a lunch pass. Lunch Purchases Applications for lunch programs may be picked up at the main office or in the cafeteria. Please return completed applications to the cafeteria only. See the Nutrition Clerk if you have any questions. Parents, for your convenience, student monies may be deposited in the student’s lunch accounts with, Cash or check sent in with the student and paid to the lunchroom clerk before school. Include student I.D.# on checks. National Junior Honor Society Hornedo has an 8th grade National Junior Honor Society. Seventh grade students, who meet standards of scholarship, service, leadership, and character are invited to apply. Students are selected to be members by a five-member Faculty Council, appointed by the principal, which bestows this honor upon qualified students on behalf of the faculty of our school each spring. To be considered for membership, seventh graders must have a cumulative grade point average of 92.0 or better for the first four grading periods of the 7th grade school year and must meet specific criteria set by the Faculty Council. Students who do not complete and return the form by the deadline will no longer be considered for invitation. In order to help evaluate the areas of service and leadership, each of these students will be given an information form that they will be asked to complete and return to the school office. In addition to the student’s form, members of the faculty are solicited for input. Referrals for disciplinary actions will also be evaluated for selection. The Induction Ceremony for the seventh grade will be held in May. P.E Classes Students are responsible for daily suiting out for physical education class. Phone Messages Only EMERGENCY messages will be delivered. Students are advised to check the front office for possible messages. All students who receive messages throughout the day will be notified through the afternoon announcements. Progress Reports Progress reports will be sent to parents at the three-week period in between report cards, or when the teacher feels it is necessary. Parents must sign and return progress reports to the teacher and schedule a conference if necessary. It is the student's responsibility to deliver progress reports and all school correspondence to his/her parents. Failure to return signed progress reports may result in disciplinary action. PTA The Hornedo PTA is very active. Each year, they hold a school-wide fundraiser, which in-turn provides many needed items for the school. In 2004, Hornedo and its PTA hosted its first Hornedo Festival. This is now an annual event! Through these successful fundraisers, the PTA purchased picnic tables and benches for the Hornedo outdoor areas. These tables provide a nice clean area for students to eat and relax during lunch. A marble sign for the school entrance provides a welcoming invitation. A Marquee board was also purchased, and this board provides a visible information system for our parents and community to read and stay abreast about important activity dates at Brown. PTA has also purchased 100 additional hall lockers to assist in the overcrowding. Additionally, PTA has provided many new computers and printers for our students, to include a mobile lab. PTA assisted Hornedo in upgrading existing computers by purchasing memory. We encourage all parents to participate in PTA. Meetings are held monthly. At some meetings, one or more student groups perform for the parents and teachers. Most of the meetings are held in the gymnasium to accommodate the large number in attendance. Please join and attend our meetings! Purses Purses are not allowed in the classroom. Purses are to be left in lockers. When a student needs a purse for personal reasons, the teacher will allow the student access to the locker before proceeding to the restroom. The purse should NOT exceed 5 X 8 inches. Purses may be carried during lunch. Record Request A 24-hour notification is required in order to release any records. A charge will be applied for copies of any documents. School Dances
School Pictures School pictures are taken twice a year. The first scheduled time is in the fall, and pictures must be prepaid if students want to purchase the pictures. These pictures are used for our records and the yearbook. Retakes will be taken a month later for those students who were absent or did not like the pictures they purchased. The second time for pictures is in the spring. There are no retakes for this set of pictures. Skateboards To include roller blades, roller shoes, scooters or any like are not allowed on school premises. Student Honor Privileges Any U will keep a student from being included on A and AB Honor Roll and related Honor Roll activities for that six weeks. A Honor Roll VISA Card Privileges gives you (student receives all A’s on a six week report)
A/A-B Honor Roll VISA Card Privileges gives you (student receives all A’s and/or B’s on six week report)
Student Medications
Tardies Excessive tardiness to class is unacceptable. Disciplinary measures will be taken if a student is persistently tardy. Excessive absences will result in a court warning and or court attendance by the parent (s) and student. On the third unexcused tardy to a class, the student will receive a “U” in deportment for that six weeks. This will be documented on a class by class basis. The fourth unexcused tardy will result in a disciplinary referral to the office. TESTS WILL NOT BE GIVEN IN ADVANCE OF AN ABSENCE. A REQUEST FOR HOMEWORK WILL BE GIVEN ONLY AFTER 3 DAYS OF EXCUSED ABSENCES. Textbooks All textbooks are loaned to students for their use during the school year. Books for each class are issued to students generally, the first week of school and are expected to be turned in at the end of the year in reasonably good condition. Students are expected to keep their books covered at all times and to handle them with proper care. This includes not writing in the books or defacing them in any way. Although textbooks are provided to school districts free of charge, all books which have to be replaced must be paid for by the district. Therefore, books which are lost or damaged beyond repair must be paid for by the student to whom they were issued. Also, fines will be assessed to students whose books have been damaged. Students are not to share books or loan them to other students, as this often results in problems when one student loses a book which belongs to another student. In such cases, the financial responsibility lies with the student who was issued the book, even if another student was using it. It is imperative that each student keep up with his/her books at all times. This includes while they are in the physical education locker rooms and during lunch periods. Parents, we encourage you to talk to your child about being responsible for their books. Threats All threats (verbal, written, and non-verbal) are considered to be serious and will be dealt with on a Student Disciplinary Action Form. Transportation Bus transportation is provided for students who live 2 miles or more from Hornedo. Students may obtain a bus card from the main office. Riding the bus is a privilege. Inappropriate behavior may result in loss of bus riding privileges. Students on a transfer are not provided transportation. UIL If a student involved in an University Interscholastic League (UIL) activity (athletics, band, choir, orchestra, cheerleading, speech, etc) is absent more than one-half day on the day before or the day of any competition or performance, he/she MUST present a Doctor’s note to the main office in order to participate in the activity held on that day or the following day. Any student who is placed into the in-school-suspension classroom may have extracurricular activities revoked as or part of a disciplinary action by Administration. VIPS We have many parents who volunteer to help on a daily basis. Parents may help in the front office area, the nurse's office, the library, and even in the classrooms. We appreciate all of our volunteers! Weapons Administration considers any object used to threaten or harm another individual(s), a weapon. Weapons are prohibited on campus. Withdrawals A 24-hour notice is required prior to the student's last day of school in order to process data required for withdrawal, clear the student's books and get grades in progress from all teachers. A PARENT MUST COME IN AND SIGN THE WITHDRAWAL FORM. On the student's last day, he/she must report to the Registrar to turn in all books and clear in all areas. Any fines or lost books MUST be paid for at the time of withdrawal. Students are responsible for all books issued and library books checked out. Unacceptable Clothing and Dress Items
Non-compliance of the dress code WILL result in IMMEDIATE disciplinary action. Unacceptable Items at ALL Times
Dress Code Policy Important Facts
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Revised 7-08-08
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