Hello Mountaineer families,

Please take the time to go over our 2025-26 Student Handbook. There are some points we would like to highlight now:

• If prior contact is not made, parents must provide a written excuse within 24 hours of an absence.
• Students who are excusably absent for more than (8) days in a semester, regardless of the reasons, will be considered "frequently absent". If there is a pattern of frequent absence for "illness", the parents will be required to provide a statement from a physician describing the health condition that is causing the frequent illness and the treatment that is being provided to rectify the condition.
• (9-12th grade) Students who are unexcused in any class will lose 3% of their marking period grade for every unexcused absence.
• Students in 7-12th grades may not access cell phones during classroom time (bell to bell) to distract or impact the students' learning. However, in the event that the use of a cell phone has been determined as instructionally necessary, the student may have it during the approved time. The expectation is that grades EK-6 are not to have a cell phone on school grounds. If found on school grounds, cell phones will be placed in said student’s backpack for the rest of the school day.

REVISED Dress Code

• Is materially and substantially disruptive or that school officials can reasonably forecast will create a substantial disruption;
• Is obscene, sexually explicit, indecent, or lewd;
• Promotes the use of or advertises illegal substances, including but not limited to substances illegal for minors;
• Incites violence;
• Contains “fighting words”;
• Constitutes a true threat of violence;
• Demonstrates hate group association/affiliation or uses hate speech targeting groups based on their membership in a protected class; or
• Displays nipples, genitals, or buttocks.

• For a student entering the District for the first time or entering 7th grade, a parent must provide the building principal or designee with a certificate stating that the student has received at least 1 dose of an immunizing agent against each disease specified by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) or other responsible agency or documentation of an applicable approved exemption. A student can be excluded after November 1, 2024 if compliance is not met.
• Information about work permits is available at the Main office in the 5-12 building for high school students. The school may rescind the work permit based upon student’s attendance and/or academic performance. 

Thank you in advance for your time in reading the handbook. Please direct any questions to your student’s school office. **

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