Policies

Exemption Policy
A student may be exempt from the semester exam in a class if he or she meets the following criteria:

  • Students must have perfect attendance in the class for the semester. This includes excused and unexcused absences.
  • Students cannot have been assigned to ISS or MIC. Students cannot have been suspended.
  • Students must have a passing average for the semester in the class.
  • Students cannot have four or more tardies for the semester in the class.

Students who are exempt must still attend their classes on exam days in the fall, but do not have to attend classes for exams in the spring.

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Tardy Policy

Students are counted tardy within the first 25 minutes of each class, after that it is an unexcused absence.  Students that arrive more than 5 minutes after the tardy bell are considered to be excessively tardy and a referral will be sent to the office.  Students that are tardy/excessively tardy will face disciplinary actions and the accumulation of tardies can affect exemptions for the semester exam.The State of Texas does not distinguish between a student being tardy and being absent.  It is a courtesy that MHS does provide a tardy policy which provides some flexibility for the times that students are a few minutes late to class. .

Regular Tardy Policy

Tardy 1
 Teacher warning
Tardy 2
Teacher assigns 30 min. consequence
Tardy 3
Student receives 1st office referral, assigned 30 minute admin consequence.
Tardy 4
 Student receives 2nd office referral, assigned 2 hour Saturday detention
Tardy 5
 Student receives 3rd office referral, assigned 1 day of ISS
Tardy 6th, 7th, etc.
 office referral; progressive ISS
Persistent tardies may result in DAEP placement

Excessive Tardy Policy
(more than 5 minutes past the tardy bell)

Tardy 1
 office referral; 1 hour detention/consequence
Tardy 2

office referral; 2 hour Saturday Detention
Tardy 3
office referral; 2 days ISS
Tardy 4
 office referral; 3 days ISS
Tardy 5
 office referral; 4 days ISS+ iSIP Warning
Tardy 6
 office referral; 5 days iSIP
Tardy 7
 office referral; 10 days iSIP