the main office. BIKE RIDERS There is a bicycle rack provided if you ride your bike to school. It is located on the east side of the building near the exit by room A249. After parking your bike, be sure that it is secured with a lock attached to the rack. We require you to walk to your bicycle while on school property and we encourage you to wear a helmet while riding. BUS LOT PROCEDURES Buses are boarded in the bus loading area on the west side of the building. We expect you to exit the building from the gym breezeway and to board your bus immediately. If your bus has not arrived, wait on the sidewalk of the bus lot, behind the red line, in your pick- up area. If you do not ride a bus, you should be in the designated area for car riders or walkers and will be considered in violation of school rules if you are in another area without permission. Discipline consequences will result if you violate this school rule. You are not allowed to request permission to board a bus other than your normal means of transportation. CAFETERIA We have two lunch shifts for each grade. The following criteria must be observed in the cafeteria: 1. When you are dismissed to go to lunch, you are to report directly to the cafeteria. Use either serving area in the cafeteria. Make lines against the wall. Line cutting is not permitted. Only 5 students at one time will be allowed in the serving area. 2. Sit in your assigned location in the cafeteria. Tables and seats will be assigned by class. Seats should not be reserved for anyone. Students are to be seated and may not move from table to table. 3. If you bring your lunch, you may buy milk, ice cream and other a la carte items at the serving station in the center of the cafeteria. 4. Unless you have permission, no food is to be removed from the cafeteria and carried outside or back into any part of the building. 5. If you need to report to another area of the building to eat your lunch, please ask the cafeteria staff to put your food on a disposable tray so as not to remove the reusable tray from the cafeteria area. 6. DO NOT PUT CHEWING GUM ON THE TABLE!!!! When you have finished eating, all trash is to be emptied into the trach bin. 7. Before leaving your table, be sure your area is clean for the next group entering the cafeteria. 8. When lunch is over, you are to report directly to your class as you are dismissed. 9. Failure to cooperate with the above procedures will be handled in accordance with the Code of Conduct. Student Advisory Student Advisory is an educational support program If you need help improving academic performance, attendance and social relationships. You may be referred to Student Advisory through the following individuals: self, peer, parent, teacher, and/or administration. For additional information, contact the Guidance office. DAILY CYCLE The middle school operates on a six-day schedule. Days are identified as A, B, C, D, E, and F. Most classes will meet every day (A-F) or every other day (A, C, E or B, D, F). Days will always follow sequentially regardless of days missed for holidays, weather, etc. DETENTIONS If you are assigned an after-school detention, you are required to serve the detention. The detention slip must be signed by your parent/guardian and returned to the appropriate teacher. If you fail to stay for the assigned detention, the teacher will contact your parent/guardian and reassign the detention one time. If you fail to stay for the reassigned detention, further disciplinary action will result. DRESS CODE See the Dress Code in the Wicomico County Code of Conduct section. ELECTRONIC DEVICES Electronic devices should be left at home. Cell phones are allowed at lunch time and before/after the school day only. Cell phones should not be out at any other time (hallways, classrooms). If you violate this rule your cell phone will be confiscated and placed in a lock box until a parent is contacted by administration. The school will not be responsible for replacing electronic devices if they are lost or stolen. We follow the Wicomico County Acceptable Use of Technology Policy. ENTERING AND EXITING THE BUILDING You may enter the building at 7:35 am. (7:15 if you are eating breakfast in the cafeteria). Prior to that time, walkers/riders enter on the east side of the building by the bike rack, Bus riders enter through the Gym, both groups go into the Gym and sit with your grade level until the bell rings. You are not to stand in the front or rear of the building. Staff members are on duty for your protection beginning at 7:15 am. You should not be on school property prior to that time. If you need to enter the building before 7:35 am at the request of a teacher, you must have a written permission slip from the teacher. No one will be allowed to enter the building early without written permission. At dismissal time, you are to leave the building quickly and quietly. You are not to remain in the building unless you are under the direct supervision of a teacher or administrator. Bus students report to the bus lot. Walkers are to leave the grounds quickly.
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