OOCONTO FFALLS HHIGH SSCHOOL Home of the Panthers 210 N. FARM ROAD P.O. BOX 988 OCONTO FALLS, WISCONSIN 54154 (920) 848-4467 STUDENT/PARENT HANDBOOK 2016-2017 The Oconto Falls School District shall not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, creed, political affiliation, physical, mental, emotional, or learning disabilities, handicap, gender, gender orientation, age, national origin, citizenship, marital, parental or pregnancy status, ancestry, color, or any other reason prohibited by state or federal law. 1 WELCOME consistent with the rules. Rule violations Welcome to Oconto Falls High School. will result in disciplinary action. The administration, faculty, and staff are This handbook provides students and looking forward to the opportunity to parents with the basic information work with each and every student at concerning OFHS. It contains the basic OFHS. We sincerely hope this will be rights, rules, responsibilities, and your best school year ever. We are expectations governing students and extremely proud of our past behavior at OFHS. This information is accomplishments and look forward to for all students at OFHS. Students and continued success. The student body, parents are expected to familiarize faculty, and staff comprising OFHS are themselves with the information. among the best in the state. However, as The rules and information contained in we are always seeking to improve as a this handbook are not all inclusive. For school, we expect that each individual further information, students and parents will contribute to the total operation of are referred to the School Policy Manual OFHS. for further clarification. Copies of this The student is an important part of manual are on file in the L.M.C. and the OFHS and its programs. OFHS will high school office. The intent is to provide students with many opportunities provide parents and students with the for learning and enjoyment during the basic information, in a readable and coming year. We hope that each student understandable format, regarding the will take advantage of the many expectations of OFHS and the Oconto opportunities present here to grow Falls Area School District. academically, socially, and emotionally. The Oconto Falls High School has an We expect each student to make the effort exemplary teaching staff, and in to take full advantage of the opportunities alignment with the federal No Child Left and education being offered and to make Behind provisions has ensured that all of positive contributions to our school and our teachers are considered highly community. qualified in the core academic subject Welcome to a new and exciting school areas. If there are questions regarding year! teaching certification please contact the "Nothing in this world can take the district office. place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than SCHOOL AND OFFICE HOURS unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will Regular school hours are 7:45 A.M. to not; unrewarded genius is almost a 3:45 P.M. Office hours are 7:30 A.M. to proverb. Persistence and 4:00 P.M. Class times for all regular and determination alone are omnipotent. The special schedules can be found on page 7. slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human MISSION STATEMENT race." --Calvin Coolidge The mission of Oconto Falls High School is to work with the home and community INTRODUCTION in providing each student with the people This Student Handbook/Agenda is and resources necessary to enable that designed to help you, the student, better student to have the opportunities to understand OFHS and to assist you in develop his or her best self so he or she meeting your obligations as a student. may function successfully as a Responsibility, communication, respect, responsible, productive member of our and safety are the foundations upon which world. the rules are based. You will share a school environment with many other people. Therefore, the rights of all must be preserved and the safety of no one placed in danger. Your actions must be 2 Last edited June 7, 2016 BELIEFS the student body whenever possible and We Believe . only when necessary for the common All students can learn, achieve, and good. With this goal in mind, the succeed. following Student Rights and Respect for self, others, and property Responsibilities are established: are essential to life and learning. In recognizing and meeting the 1. You have the right to expect that all individual needs of the student. of the rights enumerated in state and Education is a responsibility shared federal law and in school board policy by the student, the home, the school, will be granted within prescribed legal and the community. guidelines. You have the responsibility Striving for excellence is worth the to obey school, city, state, and federal investment. laws. Education is an invaluable 2. You have the right to be treated opportunity. respectfully and with dignity by your A quality school enhances the quality fellow students, the teachers, and other of our world. school employees without regard for race, Our school is accountable to our religion, sex, age, disability, or family community. situation. You have the responsibility to Learning is a lifelong process. be respectful of yourself, others, and property and to respect the rights of ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS fellow students, faculty, and school Additions or corrections to the Student personnel. Handbook may occur at any time during the school year. These changes will be 3. You have the right to be treated as a communicated to the student body unique individual with different needs, through the morning announcements. learning styles, and abilities than others. You have the responsibility to complete STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT assignments to the best of your ability and The student code of conduct for OFHS to adapt to different teachers and teaching places much of the responsibility for styles. proper behavior upon the student. The 4. You have the right to, along with high school student is on the verge of your parents, participate in decisions becoming an adult; hence the onus of affecting your educational program. You, behavior rests with the student. Student with your parents, have the behavior is a vital part of an individual's responsibility to actively participate in education. Students need to develop the conferences and meetings held on your self-discipline necessary for success in behalf. their future, their careers, and their 5. You have the right to a personal lives. If a student's behavior comprehensive curriculum. You have violates the basic rights and the responsibility to take full advantage responsibilities set forth in this handbook, of the curriculum being offered. corrective measures will be taken. The 6. You have the right to expect a Oconto Falls School District has adopted building environment that is safe, clean, a Student Code of Conduct policy that and comfortable. You have the allows for the temporary and/or responsibility to treat the property of the permanent removal of a student from school and fellow students with respect class. This can be done by teacher and to do your part in helping to maintain recommendation. a clean, safe environment. Everyone would agree that students of 7. You have the right to attend classes high school age can determine right from where dedicated, caring teachers are wrong and have the ability to choose the well-prepared to teach. You have a proper course of action. It is the desire of responsibility to be punctual for school OFHS to avoid placing restrictions upon and classes, and to attend school regularly 3 Last edited June 7, 2016 and obey the rules of the school and $ 92.00 Advanced Placement Test Fee classroom. $ 270.00 UW-Green Bay 3 credit Psych. $ 30.00 Woods 1, 2, 3, project costs SCHOOL CLOSURE $ 30.00 Intro to Construction When unusually bad weather conditions $ 25.00 Electricity/Wiring make it necessary to close school, this $ 30.00 Metals I, information will be broadcast on the $ 20.00 Metals II, Machine Tool Tech, following radio stations: and CAM project costs deposit WOCO - Oconto (1260 AM or 107 FM) $ 40.00 Welding I WDUZ - Green Bay (1400 AM or 98.5 $ 20.00 Industrial Welder Training FM) $ 40.00 Small Engines I WMAM/WLST - Marinette (570 AM or $ 30.00 Motorcycle Fundamentals 95 FM) $ 5.00 Advanced Maintenance/Repair WGEE/WIXX - Green Bay (1360 AM or $ 8.00 Photography 101.1 FM) $ 10.00 Ceramics Fee (all classes) WTCH/WOWN - Shawano (960 AM or $ 20.00 Intro to Art, Applied Art, Arts & 99.3 FM) Crafts, Drawing & Painting WNFL - Green Bay (1440 AM) $ 15.00 Aquaculture 1 & 2, Wildlife WOZZ -Green Bay (93.5 AM) $ 10.00 Floriculture/Landscape, Food WHBY/WAPL (1150 AM) Science 1 & II, Food Science WRVM - Suring (102.7 FM) Careers $ 6.00 Safety Glasses Fee (All students School closings will also be broadcast on must have approved safety the following television stations: glasses for all lab and science WBAY - Green Bay (Ch. 2) courses.) WFRV - Green Bay (Ch. 5) $ 10.00 Parking Permit fee WLUK - Green Bay (Ch. 11) $ 10.00 9th-11th grade class fees WGBA - Green Bay (Ch. 26). $110.00 12th grade class fees NOTE: Senior class fees may fluctuate on School closings will also be available on- a yearly basis depending upon the funds line at the following address: remaining from past years. http://www.cancellations.com/visitors/org NOTE: Postage may be charged to _list.php?zips=54124,54127,54137,54154 students for personal correspondence to ,54139,54101&UserId=&afid=0 post secondary institutions and scholarship benefactors. Please do not call the radio stations or television stations or the school to check TRANSPORTATION on the situation! Listen to the radio or The Oconto Falls School District provides watch the television for information.