Student Parent Handbook - Mount Mansfield Union High School
Student Parent Handbook - Mount Mansfield Union High School
Student Parent Handbook - Mount Mansfield Union High School
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EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS DRILLS<br />
Emergency preparedness drills will be held monthly during the school year.<br />
<strong>Student</strong>s are to follow directions given by school staff in these situations.<br />
EVACUATION SITE(S)<br />
In some emergency situations school evacuation is required. The evacuation<br />
sites for Mt. <strong>Mansfield</strong> <strong>Union</strong> <strong>High</strong> <strong>School</strong> are the lower athletic field and the<br />
Ethan Allen Firing Range. In some type of evacuation situations students will<br />
not be allowed to return to school and will need to be released to their parents<br />
or guardians. If this type of situation arises, announcements will be made in the<br />
same fashion as a school closings (see page 10).<br />
FUNCTIONS<br />
MMU functions, including school dances, cabarets, Homecoming, Winter Ball<br />
and the Prom are for MMU students and their guests. Middle school students<br />
and individuals 21 years or older are not permitted to attend. All guests must be<br />
approved in advance of the function by Administration, and when prior approval<br />
is not obtained, the guest may be denied admission to the function. Prom<br />
tickets are sold to Juniors and Seniors only. An underclassmen (freshman or<br />
sophomore) can attend as the date of an upperclassman. <strong>Student</strong>s should<br />
bring student I.D.’s to all functions.<br />
GAMBLING<br />
Gambling is illegal. Equipment used to gamble will be confiscated.<br />
GUN FREE SCHOOL ACT<br />
(T.16 para. 1166) Any student who possesses a weapon at school, on a school<br />
bus or at any school-related function or activity, shall be referred to a law<br />
enforcement agency and may be expelled from school for not less than one<br />
calendar year. For purposes of this policy, the terms “weapon”, “school” and<br />
“expulsion” shall be defined by the Federal Gun Free <strong>School</strong>s Act of 1994 and<br />
expanded to include antiques, hunting and sporting guns, look-alike and nonoperational<br />
guns, biohazards, knives and a combination of parts designed or<br />
redesigned from which a destructive device may be readily assembled.<br />
HAZING<br />
MMU supports those activities which are constructive, educational, inspirational<br />
and that contribute to the intellectual and personal development of students.<br />
MMU unequivocally opposes any situation created intentionally to produce<br />
mental or physical discomfort, embarrassment, harassment or ridicule.<br />
MMU interprets hazing as any act, whether physical, mental, emotional or<br />
psychological, which subjects another person, voluntarily or involuntarily, to<br />
anything that may abuse, mistreat, degrade, humiliate, harass or intimidate<br />
him/her, or which may in any fashion compromise his/her inherent dignity as a<br />
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