CELL PHONES, PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES, AND SOCIAL MEDIA Students MAY NOT use their cell phone during school. Phones are to be powered off and put away bell to bell - 7:15am until 2:45pm. Cell phones are not needed for any academic purposes during the school day. Students are encouraged to leave phones at home. Parents are encouraged to contact the front office of the school if they need to communicate with their student. Students needing to contact their parent may use the school phone. Students are prohibited from using their cell phone to cheat or plagiarize, to bully or haze others, to disrupt the learning environment, to view pornographic, vulgar, or inappropriate content, to post derogatory content on social media sites, to make video recordings at school, without teacher permission or school authorization; or take unsolicited or unwelcome photographs of students, staff, or facilities. Students who inappropriately use their cell phone at school will be subject to discipline as stipulated in the Student Code of Conduct. Cell phones, tablets, ear buds, and headphones are not required items for students. Students bringing these items to school do so at their own risk. The school is not responsible for lost, damaged, or stolen cell phones, tablets, ear buds, headphones, etc. Students are advised to leave these items at home. DAILY CYCLE The middle school operates on an A-day and B-day schedule. Days are identified as either an A-day or a B-day. Most classes will meet every day (A-B). Special area classes meet every other day, either A-day or B-day. Days will always follow sequentially regardless of days missed for holidays, weather, etc. DETENTION Students assigned after-school detention are required to serve the detention. The detention slip must be signed by a parent/guardian and returned to the appropriate teacher or staff member. If a student fails to stay for the assigned detention, further disciplinary action will result. DRESS CODE See Dress Code in the Wicomico County Code of Conduct. EARLY DISMISSAL If a student needs to be dismissed early from school, they should bring a note from a parent or guardian. The student must be signed out by the adult who is authorized to pick him/her up. The school cannot release a student to someone who is not on the student’s emergency contacts. FIRE DRILLS 1. Each classroom teacher is responsible for instructing every class in the procedures for evacuating that room. Instructions will be posted in each room. 2. Move as quickly as possible without running. Move a reasonable distance from the school. 3. Remain silent in single file while waiting for the bell to signal you back to your room. 4. If a fire drill occurs while a student is at lunch, the student is to exit to the front of the building. and join the class with which he came to lunch. 5. If a fire drill occurs during the changing of classes, students are to leave the building by the most direct route to the front of the building and wait quietly for instructions from school staff.
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