ACS Updates

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  Hello Athens christian school. My name is brad Brown. I'm the dean of students here.

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  I wanted to welcome you to the 2022 2023 school year.

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  We're really excited about this year.

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  We will have over 100 new students on campus and I

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  cannot wait to see how you impact our community here.

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  I want to take a moment and just give you some new updates that are happening here at A.

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  C. S. There's been a few changes over this summer and just want to be uh

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  informing you and communicating with you parents

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  and students about some of these changes so

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  you're aware and so you may be able to ask some questions for us.

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  First and foremost, we will have new school hours.

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  We have shortened the school day by one class period,

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  an effort to promote better student learning and retention.

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  Uh the school day will now be from 7:55 a.m. And we will now be

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  getting out at 2:45 p.m. The school beginning of the day stays the same,

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  but we will no longer be getting out at 3 15 but it's 2 45.

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  so parents as you are scheduling student pickups,

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  please be aware that new time change.

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  If you have a student who is unable to get picked

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  up at 2 45 we have after school supervision for them.

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  It is our desire here at a. C.

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  S to make sure that students are in a safe

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  environment and supervised both on campus during school and after school

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  for a student that is not an athlete or theater or chorus or band,

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  We have two options for them, there's homework helper which is $165 a month.

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  Then you also have extended hours, which is $145 a month.

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  So if a student is unsupervised and they're hanging

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  out in the gym or in a common place,

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  they will be escorted to extended hours and the charge will be placed on their facts,

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  account.

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  Uh, athletes, theater, band, course,

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  these students will report directly to their locations as required.

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  The next thing we wanna talk about is parking here at a CS

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  and this only does affect high school,

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  but this year we are asking that you register your vehicle through

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  a payment form that has been sent sent out earlier this year,

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  there's a $10 fee.

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  This is for the upkeep and repair of the parking lot.

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  And we ask that students would display their decal in

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  the lower left hand corner of their back windshield.

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  This is a safety thing. We want to make sure that

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  cars that are on campus

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  should be here and this is a way to quickly identify it.

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  The next thing I wanna talk about is dress

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  code and while there's always slight changes every year,

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  not too much changes here,

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  but we just want to hit on a couple of points

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  to really emphasize a few things first is boys hair.

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  We're going with the policy that's a little more clear and

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  easier to discern. So boys hairs will be off the ears, off the eyes and off the collar.

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  If a student is to have long hair it is

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  possible that they could put it in a hair restraint,

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  but the new policy moving forward is off the ears, off the eyes and off the collar.

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  Next part about the dress care that's changed is during school hours,

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  hats will not be allowed uh

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  after school, before school hats would be allowed,

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  but during school hours hats are not allowed.

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  Even during class changes.

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  Another area we want to emphasize and this isn't new,

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  but I just really want to emphasize, this is a CS outerwear,

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  students are allowed to wear a CS hoodies and a CS sweatshirts only.

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  So if you have a sweatshirt that is that material, it's not a CS,

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  you would be asked to remove it.

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  So we're having only a CS

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  sweatshirts and hoodies.

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  If you have a jacket or a raincoat that can be taken off once you come inside,

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  that's allowed between the buildings,

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  but once you're inside that jacket or raincoat should be taken off.

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  Last point of emphasis on dress code is P. E. Attire, there's a school uniform for P.

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  E. Classes and

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  students should be dressed in that.

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  This also applies to weight training. If

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  a weight training class, they should have P. E. Attire or team athletic wear as well.

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  These just helps to promote a uniform look here.

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  Next thing we wanna talk about is the changing and grading scale.

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  So in an effort to make our students look more

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  attractive on college transcripts are for colleges and applications,

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  we are now removing Ds from our grading scale.

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  So the new grading scale will be, 100 to 90 will be in a.

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  And 89 2 and 80 will be a,

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  be a 79 to 70 will be a scene and anything below a 70 would be a failing grade.

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  Now I do want to point out that grades are averaged over the entire year.

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  So if a student were to get a 65 in the first semester they could get

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  a 75 during the second semester and that would average out to a passing grade.

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  Next thing we wanna talk about is unexcused absences of more than 10.

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  So if a student misses class and it's unexcused

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  and hasn't been pre approved by the administration.

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  Uh that student would not get credit for the class,

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  they would have to either make up the seat

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  time and the work would just not receive credit.

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  This has been in the handbook but this year we are

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  making more of an effort to promote this attendance in class.

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  The last thing we were talking about is just make sure your charges,

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  you charge your device daily.

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  Uh We wanna make sure that we come to school with

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  a fully charged chromebook and that they're ready to go.

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  A lot of us already have iphones or other cell phones that are being charged at night.

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  It's very easy just to plug them in as well. Uh

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  With that that's all the updates we have,

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  but I just want to say let's have a great year, we're really looking forward to this.

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  2022 2023 school year. I cannot wait to see you all back on campus.

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  Thank you very much and have a great day.