2017-18 Student Handbook Items

We welcome CMS students and families to the 2017-18 school year. We hope everyone's school year is off to a great start.

We want to take this opportunity to highlight several items in our CMS Student Handbook.  Some of these items are practices similar to previous years while others have been changed from past years.

Let’s get started:

1. If your child is sick or will be absent for any reason, please call the school office at 792-8020.  We encourage you to notify us as early as possible when your child will be absent.  
2. Students will be allowed to drop Band and Chorus within the first 2 weeks of each semester.  Students will not be able to drop at any other time during the school year.  In order for students to drop, the student and the director must meet in person to discuss reasonings behind dropping the class and parent must consent to the director in writing or in person.
3. Students can carry cell phones with them during the school day.  This is a change in policy compared to previous years in which students were asked to keep them in the office or their locker.  Students can have their phones on them.  Once the cell phone becomes a distraction, then the staff member may ask the student for the cell phone.  The staff member may keep the phone for the day, returning it to the student at the end of the day.
4. Students shall not make any recordings or take any photographs during the school day or at school events without the permission of the teacher or an administrator.  Video recordings and pictures are allowed at public events and performances such as award assemblies and athletic contests.  
5. Students who do receive a consequence such as a detention will be asked to serve the detention after school.  We will not be having students serve detentions before school.    
6. Students can receive three tardies a semester.  Once a student receives four of them a semester, a consequence--such as a detention--can be enforced.  Typically a letter will be sent once a student receives two tardies a semester.  
7. Students are allowed to bring a water bottle as long as it is a clear, non-breakable container.  Please no flavor enhancers added to the water.  
8. We have a vending machine located outside the main office that students can use before school and before lunch.  Students are not to use it after school.  

We encourage parents to access the handbook in the virtual backpack on the district website and students have access to it in their google drive.  Please read the handbook so you are aware of our policies.  

We look forward to working with you and your child this year.  If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please contact us at 792-8020 or email me at cheiman@carrolltigers.org.

Thank you.