ROOM MOTHERS Each will have volunteer room-mothers who will assist in supervising class activities, class parties, and PTO activities. INCLEMENT WEATHER Monroe Academy will announce any closing of school due to inclement weather over WMFC and WPGG radio stations, email, website, and school text. TELEPHONE The office telephones are not for students’ use. A student will be allowed to use the office phone only if they are conducting school business or if there is an emergency. Parents and students must understand that forgotten lunches, books, P.E. clothes, and homework are not considered emergencies. If an elementary student is sick, the teacher or school secretary will contact the parent or guardian and make arrangements for the student to be picked up. PERMISSION TO LEAVE SCHOOL Any student who leaves the school campus during school hours must check out with the office. If the student returns, he or she must sign back in through the office. All students leaving school must be picked up at the office. Monroe Academy strongly encourages parents to arrange routine medical and dental appointments after school hours. Teachers should be notified of non-emergency medical and dental appointments in advance. Parents must send written notification of the appointments to the office. This notification must be in at least by homeroom on the morning of the day of the appointment. If not, the absence will be unexcused. Any student who leaves school during the day is responsible for all work missed. Tests and work missed during this time must be made up at the discretion of the teacher. Failure on the part of the student to see the teacher at the teacher’s convenience upon the student’s return to school concerning work missed may result in a zero. A student who becomes ill during the school day is to report to the office to call home. Students are not to call home and ask parents to excuse them. The office must to parents or immediate family member before any student will be dismissed from school. If a student leaves school, he or she will not be allowed to participate in any school activity unless he or she returns before the end of school hours, or brings a doctor’s excuse, or has administrative approval. Any student who checks out of school prior to 11:30 and does not return will be counted absent for the entire day.
ROOM MOTHERS Each will have volunteer room-mothers who will assist in supervising class activities, class parties, and PTO activities. INCLEMENT WEATHER Monroe Academy will announce any closing of school due to inclement weather over WMFC and WPGG radio stations, email, website, and school text. TELEPHONE The office telephones are not for students’ use. A student will be allowed to use the office phone only if they are conducting school business or if there is an emergency. Parents and students must understand that forgotten lunches, books, P.E. clothes, and homework are not considered emergencies. If an elementary student is sick, the teacher or school secretary will contact the parent or guardian and make arrangements for the student to be picked up. PERMISSION TO LEAVE SCHOOL Any student who leaves the school campus during school hours must check out with the office. If the student returns, he or she must sign back in through the office. All students leaving school must be picked up at the office. Monroe Academy strongly encourages parents to arrange routine medical and dental appointments after school hours. Teachers should be notified of non-emergency medical and dental appointments in advance. Parents must send written notification of the appointments to the office. This notification must be in at least by homeroom on the morning of the day of the appointment. If not, the absence will be unexcused. Any student who leaves school during the day is responsible for all work missed. Tests and work missed during this time must be made up at the discretion of the teacher. Failure on the part of the student to see the teacher at the teacher’s convenience upon the student’s return to school concerning work missed may result in a zero. A student who becomes ill during the school day is to report to the office to call home. Students are not to call home and ask parents to excuse them. The office must to parents or immediate family member before any student will be dismissed from school. If a student leaves school, he or she will not be allowed to participate in any school activity unless he or she returns before the end of school hours, or brings a doctor’s excuse, or has administrative approval. Any student who checks out of school prior to 11:30 and does not return will be counted absent for the entire day.
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