Trojan Tuesday Newsday!

Scholars and parents have the option to pay any past fines before school starts. Please call or email our bookkeeper, Mrs. Carmen Inga ingac@cfbisd.edu, to check on your fines. Scholars with fines may not be able to attend specialty events; please get those taken care of ASAP!

As part of our commitment to campus safety, NSHS scholars will be required to wear ID badges while on campus.

We have worked closely with the CFB Security Department, True North Security Consultants, and the Carrollton Police Department to review our campus security and Standard Response Protocol. On the 1st day of school, all scholars will receive an ID and clip in their 1st period class. After they receive this ID, they will not be allowed into any classroom or the building each day afterward without a school ID visible and above the chest. Scholars who lose their ID’s will be expected to pay $3.00 for a new ID. On the third ID reprint, a parent conference will be necessary for the scholar to return to class. When school begins, we will have class meetings with scholars to ensure that they are aware of security protocols.

The NSHS Parent/Scholar handbook, which includes the new dress code, covers all of this letter’s information in more detail. (The dress code is also pasted below). Any scholar not in district dress code will not be permitted into the building or into any classroom. This handbook also clearly explains the discipline plan and the roles and responsibilities of the parents and students in this process. There will be a signature page that needs to be returned in the First Day of School forms. Failure to sign this form does not excuse students/parents from the information in it.

CFBISD Dress Code 2019-2020

The following guidelines are established as a point of reference for parents, students and administrators in regards to dress. All students must be clean and neatly groomed. The district’s dress code is established to minimize safety hazards, to teach grooming and hygiene, and to prevent disruptions. The Dress Code is revised annually after considering feedback from students, teachers, administrators, and community members. After receiving community input and Board approval, some campuses have implemented standardized dress or school uniforms for their students. Campuses with standardized dress or school uniforms will provide specific information to parents related to their clothing requirements.

The Board of Trustees of CFBISD delegates to the principal the authority to make final determinations as to whether clothing or grooming is or is not within this policy. The administration reserves the right to determine any inappropriate dress that it feels is disruptive to the school environment. Parents and students are encouraged to address and resolve concerns related to the Dress and Grooming Policy at the campus level. The principal will assess and determine compliance or non-compliance with the Dress and Grooming Policy, and will assign corresponding consequences for violation of this policy.

• Hair, by color or design, may not create a distraction to the learning environment. Non-natural hair color is permitted. If designs are shaved into the hair, they must be school appropriate and may not condone or represent drugs, gangs, alcohol, profanity, violence, obscenity, or anything deemed inappropriate by school administration.

• Students may not wear the following: tongue rings, lip rings, eyebrow rings, ear gauges, spacers, facial jewelry such as hoops or rings, or facial decorations. Students may, however, wear one small nose stud.

  • Caps, hats, bandannas, hair rollers, hair curlers, and other similar hair grooming items, shall not be worn by students in the school building. If students are wearing a shirt or jacket with a hood or a hoodie, the hood must remain down.

  • Students may not wear clothing that advertises by name or symbol any products that are not permitted in schools, including, but not limited to the following: drugs, alcohol, profanity or suggestive slogans, tobacco, obscenity, violence or gangs.

  • Students may wear shorts of appropriate length, or skirts of an appropriate length, at or about mid-thigh or longer, when fitted at the natural waistline. Should jeans/pants have frays, rips, or tears above the mid-thigh (appropriate length of shorts), students must wear leggings underneath the jeans.

  • Shirts must overlap the waistband of pants, skirts, or shorts.

  • Clothing which, in the opinion of the professional staff, would be deemed a distraction to the learning environment or offensive for school in general, shall not be allowed, including, but not limited to the following: trench coats, mini-skirts, pajama pants, decorative teeth coverings or teeth jewelry, halter or tube tops, split sides, midriffs, sagging pants, bare shoulder tops, see-through clothing, fishnet tops, or running/spandex shorts.

  • Yoga pants, leggings, and jeggings may be worn if the shirt drapes to mid-thigh.

  • All students must wear appropriate, non-visible undergarments.

  • For health reasons, students are required to wear shoes appropriate for the school setting. House shoes or slippers are not appropriate for school. Flip flops or slides are not appropriate for elementary students.

  • As tattoos are not legal prior to the age of 18 without parental consent, CFB discourages underage tattoos. Tattoos may not create a distraction to the learning environment.

  
  

Additionally, below is the calendar of important registration dates/events for the start of the year

• Registration: Appointments will be from 8-12 and 1-4. Ms. Gillespie and Mrs. Almazan will check documents and enter scholars into TEAMS. Once that is complete, the scholar will meet with one of the counselors to enter course requests (or create a schedule once the schedule is finalized).

• Scholars will have access to their new schedule through TEAMS on August 16th.

• Schedule change requests must be submitted online on our school’s website: https://cfbisd.edu/schools/high-schools/smith-high-school/. Scholars will have from August 19-August 23, 2019 to submit a request. All requests will be reviewed, however, not all requests will be granted.

• August 19th – 1st Day of School!