Otsego Elementary School Faculty Handbook - Half Hollow Hills

FORGOTTEN ITEMS
Although we help the children by stressing responsibility, teaching
organizational skills, and providing frequent reminders, situations often
arise where students do not have what they need. Students are ultimately
responsible for bringing the necessary items to and from school and there
comes a point where they must bear the consequences of their
carelessness.
Please make sure the following guidelines are clear to students and
parents:
• Students may not call home for items left behind (i.e. homework,
projects, books, sneakers, musical instruments, permission slips,
etc…). Numerous calls home are extremely disruptive to the office staff
and classroom instruction.
o In any instance where you feel a child’s safety is at stake (i.e. if a
child forgot a note changing dismissal information and nobody will
be home), please make sure contact is made with the child’s
parents. If you are unable to make the call yourself, send that
student to the office with a note indicating the problem. The
office staff will contact the parent and relay the information to you.
• Children who have forgotten their lunch may check in the office on the
way to the cafeteria to see if their parents have brought it to school. If
their lunch is not there, the students will be able to borrow money to
purchase lunch from the cafeteria.
• Students and/or parents will not be permitted into the classrooms
before and after school to retrieve forgotten items. Custodians,
secretaries, and other staff members will not allow entry into the
classrooms for this purpose.