School Policies

Behavior Expectations and Consequences

• Respect everyone’s ideas, feelings, and belongings
• Enter classes in an orderly manner, prepared for learning
• Bring only necessary materials
• Remain on task during class
• Follow all instructions given
• Follow all school and district rules and policies

Please refer to our 26/27 Gamble High Positive Behavior Intervention Plan: View Here

Absences

Whenever a student is absent from school, the parent must call the school on the morning of the absence. If the office does not receive an absence call, an adult from the school will call the home and/or work number of the parent.

Excessive absences or unexcused days late to school will be addressed by interventions with a social worker. 

Academic Eligibility for Athletics and Extra-Curricular Activities

To be eligible, without limitation, to participate in athletics or extra-curricular activities, a student cannot fail more than one class and must maintain at least a 2.0 grade point average for the previous grading period. If a student has not failed more than one class, but does not have the required GPA, the student can attain eligibility if the student is on an intervention plan. If the student has failed more than one class, the student cannot be eligible.

These rules do not affect the ability of a teacher or administrator to limit or deny a student’s involvement in athletics or other extra-curricular activity because of behavior or other academic issues.

Dress Code

Within broad limits, dress and appearance are considered personal taste. Appropriate clothing and apparel, however, are required to be worn at all times. These limits generally relate to health, safety, modesty and professionalism. Students are expected to maintain an appearance that is not distracting or found to be disrespectful.

Parental support is very important to ensure that students respect the dress code. When dressed inappropriately, the student will be offered appropriate clothing or the student will wait in the office until a parent brings appropriate clothing. A parent-administrator conference may be arranged.

The following guidelines have been established at Gamble Montessori:


• The 4 “B” Code: No Bottoms, Breasts, Bellies, or Bare backs/shoulders.
• No dew rags, bandanas or hoods are permitted.
• Shirts are not permitted to have obscene, offensive or suggestive gestures, words or pictures. This includes any reference to alcohol, drugs, tobacco and violence.

• Skirts and shorts must be at least mid-thigh in length, touching the fingertips with arms extended.
• Only Beanie Hats are permitted to be worn: Beanie hats should not cover a student's face, ears or face. These are allowed in the classroom at teacher discretion. Students should connect headphones or earbuds to their laptop with a cord or with Bluetooth.
• No Beanie Hates, hoods or any type of headphones should be worn during hallway transitions. 

Cell Phones and Electronics

Phones/IPads
All students must have their phone in a Yondr Pouch. All students must had their IPad in daily. 

Students may not have their phones out in any class. The only exception to this rule is when it is specifically included in a teacher’s lesson plan (CCP or AP classes, calling nonprofits to set up service, seniors setting up job shadows, etc.).

If a student has their phone out in class, teachers will confiscate the phone from the student or to call security or administration to confiscate the phone. The teacher or security will bring the phone to the office at their first opportunity. The office will contact the parent and the phone will be held in the office for parent pickup.

Students get ONE free phone return at the end of the day if their parent cannot pick it up. Any phones confiscated after their first end-of-day return must be held for parent pickup. Students are expected to consider that having their parent leave work, for instance, to pick up their phone will be inconvenient for their parent. Thus, they should make sure their phone is in their Yondr pouch during the day. 

NOTE: This policy also applies to phones taken in classroom searches.

NOTE: When parents pick up their child’s phone, they must buy a Yondr pouch so that their child will use it in the future.

NOTE: iPads and tablets will be treated the same as phones.

Tuesday/Thursday Night Detentions

*Students who are habitually late to class or skip will earn: 

• Tuesday/Thursday detention will be held in the Cafeteria every Tuesday/Thursday from 3:10 - 4:10PM.

Skipping and Tardy to Class

Teachers may assign a Tuesday/Thursday detention to a student for skipping their class and/or for being tardy to their class (or a class) 3 times.

*If a student continues to skip or arrive late to class, adminstartaion will set up a conference with the family. Students that fall under this will get escorted to the restroom. 

Return Conferences

Any student returning from an emergency removal should have a team-based return conference. Teams can decide how to best facilitate this meeting, but it is absolutely critical that administrators communicate with teams about students who are being placed on removal including reasons behind the removal and the student’s return date. These conferences can be short and do not need to involve the student’s parent.