This student handbook was developed to answer many of the commonly asked questions that you and your parents may have during the school year and to provide specific information about certain Board policies and procedures.

This handbook contains important information that you should know. Become familiar with the following information and keep the handbook available for frequent reference by you and your parents. If you have any questions that are not addressed in this handbook, you are encouraged to talk to your teachers or the building principal.

This handbook summarizes many of the official policies and administrative guidelines of the Board of Education and the District. To the extent that the handbook is ambiguous or conflicts with these policies and guidelines, the policies and guidelines shall control. This handbook is effective immediately and supersedes any prior handbook and other written material on the same subjects.

Middle School Handbook

The following topics are covered in the Parchment Middle School Handbook:

• Access to Courses and Activities

• Accident or Illness

• Accreditation

• Administration of Medication / Prescribed and non-prescribed

• Announcements

• Arrival and Departure Times for Students

• Assemblies, Concerts and Plays

• Athletics

• Contests

• Attendance

• Banners, Posters and Activity Advertisement

• Bicycles, Skateboards and Roller Blades

• Breakfast

• Bus Regulations

• Canine Searches

• Cheating / Plagiarism

• Closed Campus

• Code of Conduct

• Communications with Parents

• Computer Usage

• Corridor Conduct

• Detention

• Disrespect / Insubordination

• Dress and Grooming

• Early Dismissal

• Emergencies - Fire and Tornado Procedures

• Enrolling In School

• Field Trips

• Guidance and Counseling

• Hallway and Stairway Courtesy

• Homework and Make-Up Work

• Honor Roll

• Lost and Found

• Lunch Period

• Mastery of Outcomes

• Media Center

• Money and Valuables

• Motor Vehicles

• Pagers - Telecommunications Devices / Cell Phones

• Parking Lot

• Parties, After-School Functions or Extra Curricular Activities

• Persistent Violations

• Personal Property

• Public Displays of Affection

• Reservation of Rights

• Restrooms

• Sales in School

• Search and Seizure

• Sixth Grade Camp

• Snowballs

• Snow and Severe Weather Days

• Staying After School

• Student Conduct, Rights and Responsibilities

• Student Achievement

• Students of the Month

• Suspension

• Tardiness

• Telephones and Messages

• Textbooks, Media Center & School Owned Materials

• Transfer Information

• Use of Tobacco

• Visitors

• Walking to School

• Weapons Free Zone

• Zero Tolerance Policy