Crittenden Middle School

As a district, we have embraced a Continuous Improvement model as our strategy for meeting our goal of academic excellence. Homework plays an integral role in this process. The Board encourages students, parents, guardians, and staff to view homework as an important part of a student’s daily life.

As a general guideline, parents should expect an average of 10 minutes of homework per grade level per night, keeping in mind that different students may take slightly more or less time to complete assignments. For example, students should expect sixty minutes of homework nightly in sixth grade, seventy minutes in seventh grade, and eighty minutes in eighth grade.

Promotion-Retention Policy

Students who meet grade level standards will be promoted to the next grade at the end of the academic year. If a student is at risk of not meeting these standards, the grade level team will notify parents and a conference will be held. A supportive plan of intervention to aid the student will be designed and implemented. If the student is still unable to meet grade level expectations, a second conference will be held to decide whether repeating a grade level will be in the student’s best interest. When considering a student for retention, the team will evaluate the following: academic performance, basic skills tests, district assessments in reading, writing and math, work habits, attendance, and benefit to the child. The final decision for retention will be made by the Principal.

Academic Honesty Policy

All students will be given a copy of the Crittenden Middle School Academic Policy to review with their parent/guardian. Students and parents/guardians will be expected to sign a document acknowledging awareness of this policy, and return it to their Guidance teacher.

Cheating is defined as as taking or lending at inappropriate times a person’s work, information, ideas, research and/or documentation without properly identifying the source. The teacher’s professional judgment will determine whether cheating has occurred. Forgery is signing any document using another’s signature or identity with the intent to deceive. Students are reminded that it is unacceptable to:

Look at another’s paper during a test
Talk during a test without permission
Use any unauthorized notes
Let someone see your paper during a test
Take another’s work or ideas and pass them off as one's own.
Give test information to others
Submit individual projects not wholly your own
Fabricate or alter written, computerized or lab data
Use of another person’s name or identity with the intent to deceive
Let someone copy your work or homework
Take a test for someone else
Share/use computer passwords not your own

First Violation of the Academic policy:
A grade of zero will be given for the work involved, four citizenship points will be lost, and a parent will be called.

Second Offense: Detention will be assigned in addition to loss of four citizenship points, and a parent conference scheduled.

Homework Philosophy

Promotion-Retention Policy

Academic Honesty Policy