Student dress and grooming is the responsibility of individual students and their parents.When dress and grooming disrupt the learning process then it becomes a matter of school concern and school administrators will take appropriate action.Such action may include asking the student to change clothing, sending the student home or counseling with the student and/or parent.
Therefore, the following guidelines are in place:

1. Pants are to be worn on the hips and belts are to be tucked in at the belt loops.
2. No visible undergarments, including boxers, sports bras and bra straps.  This pertains to both boys and girls.
3. The midriff (stomach) must be covered. (If you can see skin when your hands are by your side, it&s too short.
4. Additionally, the Hamlin Student Council and the administration has agreed to a wearing of shorts policy. The following was agreed as being workable:
5. Walking shorts only. No P.E. or P.E. type shorts.
6. Even if walking shorts are worn, they must be appropriate length. Not short, short walking shorts.
7. No cut-off jeans.
8. No halter type apparel is to be worn.
9. Jeans or cut-off jeans are not to be worn in physical education. They are a safety problem for students.
10. Regular school dress is not to be worn as P.E. dress.
11. Students are to provide separate P.E. clothes that are worn for P.E. only.

For more details, see the Student Responsibilities and Rights booklet, page 12.

Listed below are the areas which were agreed upon to maintain uniformity throughout the building.

1.   Students are to have a three-ring binder.

2.   Students are to have assignment sheets for each subject in their binder.

3.   Students are to use the proper heading:

a.   Name in upper right hand corner.

b.   First and last name; under that the date; under that the subject; and under that the page number.

4.   Paper should have three holes and not be narrow ruled.

5.   Students should write on the correct side of the paper (i.e. holes to the left on the first page.)

6.   Students should write with a #2 pencil, or blue or black ink.

7.   Students should not tear paper out of a notebook.

8.   An effort should be made to improve all spelling on papers that are turned in. This does not mean correcting all spelling errors on a social studies paper, but it is helpful if a student sees the necessity to use spelling skills in all areas.

9.   Study Skills should be emphasized in all classes.

If your child has been or will be absent, please call the school (744-6356) and speak with the attendance secretary.

Under Oregon law, a principal may excuse an absence if it is caused by the pupil;s sickness, the sickness of a member of the pupil&;s family or an emergency. The principal may also excuse absences for other reasons where satisfactory arrangements are made in advance of the absence.Prolonged absence could result in reduction of grades or loss of credit required for graduation.

Oregon law requires that all children and young people between the ages of seven and eighteen years of age attend regularly a full-time public school if they have not completed the 12th grade. Furthermore, schools are required to keep accurate attendance records and take action when irregular attendance indicates a possible truancy violation

Cafeteria Rules

1. Be courteous to other students at all times.
2. Walk at all times when in the cafeteria.
3. Do not cut into the lunch lines.
4. Stay off the stage.
5. Students are responsible for cleaning-up the area in which they eat. Clean up all accidents.
6. Only students eating lunch will be allowed to use the eating areas.

1.   Bicycles should be walked from the gate students enter to the bike cage and locked up on a bike rack. Students SHOULD NOT leave their bikes outside the bike cage. When leaving school, students should walk their bikes to the gate they are leaving and then begin to ride.

2.   No skateboards may be ridden on campus. When students reach the gate, they should get off their skateboard and carry it.

3.   When students leave school, they should carry their skateboard to the gate, then begin riding it.

4.   Any staff member who sees a students riding their skateboard should take the skateboard and give it to the principal. Students will need to make arrangements with the vice principal to get the skateboard back.

Visitors
All visitors to the building must first check in at the office; this is a district policy. Whenever a staff member observes non-students loitering around on the grounds or in the building, these persons should be informed to report to the office or be asked to leave. It is school policy not to allow non-students to visit for the day or socialize during lunch.

Guest Speakers
In individual teacher may invite guest speakers to speak to his/her own classes after discussing the visit with the principal. The sponsoring teacher must inform the principal regarding the speaker's name and the time and place of the visit. Other classes may attend if invited by the sponsoring teacher. Students who refuse on philosophical, moral, or religious grounds may be excused from hearing a guest speaker by choosing to do an alternate assignment.