GMMS Handbook Review (Updated 2025)

Multiple Choice

After how many tardies will a student receive a lunch detention?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

From the GMMS Handbook

"Students are expected to be in their assigned seats and have required supplies when the bell rings. Those students who are not prepared for class may be counted as tardy. For those who are tardy, the following procedure will be followed. Tardies are accumulated throughout each quarter. Students will be assigned a lunch detention for every third tardy they receive."

Multiple Choice

How many classes can a student be failing and still participate in extra-curricular activities?

• 0

• 1

• 2

• 3

From the GMMS Handbook

"Grades will be checked weekly on Monday. Students with a failing grade in one or more classes will be unable to compete or perform for one week (Monday through the following Monday). If the student’s grade is improved to passing during the week, the student will be allowed to participate with the instructor’s signature. During the week, students will be expected to stay for workstudy prior to attending practice."

Multiple Choice

Students with a failing grade will not be able to compete in an extra-curricular activity for how long?

• 1 competition

• 1 week

• 2 weeks

• 3 practices

From the GMMS Handbook

"Students who participate in extracurricular activities will be expected to be passing all their classes in order to participate in contests/events....

Students who are ineligible will not be allowed to perform, compete, or dress in a school uniform. A student will be allowed to travel with the team as long as any school time is not missed."

Multiple Choice

Should it be necessary to bring to school, a cell phone should be where?

• In your hand

• Be in a teacher’s caddy and turned off

• Be in your locker or backpack and turned off

• Be in your pocket and turned off

From the GMMS Handbook

"Cellular phones, smart devices, smart watches, and bluetooth electronics are not allowed in classes, locker rooms, or bathrooms. If it is necessary for the student to bring such a device to school, it is to be turned off and kept in the student’s locker or in their backpack during school hours."

Multiple Choice

On the first violation of the cell phone policy, what happens?

• Verbal warning

• Phone is taken away, no detention

• Phone is taken away and one (1) lunch detention

• Phone is taken away and resold, with all proceeds going to Team Broadway

From the GMMS Handbook

"Cell phones or electronic devices that cause a disruption or are used during class/school time will be taken away. The first offense is one detention, the phone or electronic device is confiscated and may be retrieved at the end of the day by the student."

Multiple Choice

Who picks up the cell phone from the office after a second violation?

• Governor Rhoden

• the student

• your homeroom teacher

• your parent or guardian

From the GMMS Handbook

"The second offense, and any subsequent offense is two detentions, phone or electronic device is confiscated and parents must pick up the device from the office.

Students who accumulate four cell phone offenses will be required to turn in their cell phone, at the beginning of each school day, in the office for the remainder of the school year."

Multiple Select

Students who are absent for school events, like athletic events, should notify their teachers when?

• The day they will be absent

• The day after their event

• At least one day before being absent

• As soon as they know they will be absent

From the GMMS Handbook

"Students who are going to be gone for a school activity or for any other planned absence are expected to get their assignment from their teachers and have them completed before the absence(s)."

From the GMMS Handbook

"Eating in the cafeteria is a privilege as well as a right. All students are expected to exhibit proper etiquette when dining in the school cafeteria. Students may lose lunchroom privileges for inappropriate behaviors."

From the GMMS Handbook

"Food or drink cannot be taken out of the cafeteria."

From the GMMS Handbook

"Students may not share food that they have purchased from the lunch program. Students should not take food that they do not intend to eat to give to other students"

Multiple Select

Workstudy is held after school on the which days?

• Monday

• Tuesday

• Wednesday

• Thursday

• Friday

Multiple Choice

Students are required to attend workstudy if

• They have 2 or more missing assignments

• They have 3 or more missing assignments

• They have 4 or more missing assignments

• Ms. Repman is in a grumpy mood.

From the GMMS Handbook

"Students will be required to stay for work study if they have three or more missing assignments or work not completed in a satisfactory manner. Work study will run Monday through Thursday, from the end of the school day until 3:45."

Multiple Choice

Is there a restriction on what may appear on the clothing you wear to school?

• No, there are no restrictions

• Yes, there are some restrictions

From the GMMS Handbook

"Students are requested to avoid wearing immodest and disruptive dress, garments advertising or promoting the use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs, inappropriate slogans or innuendoes, and dress promoting inappropriate activity."

Multiple Choice

How wide must straps on t-shirts/tank tops be?

• at least 1 inch

• at least 2 inches

• at least 3 inches

• there is no minimum length

From the GMMS Handbook

"...This would include, but is not limited to, clothing such as spaghetti strap tank tops, midriff shirts (allowing mid-section to show), and short shorts, skirts, or dresses. Shirts must have a single shoulder strap that is at least 2” wide and underclothing should not be visible."

Multiple Choice

Are students permitted to wear clothing with rips/tears in it?

• No -- under no circumstances

• Yes --- it does not matter how many rips/tears there are

• Yes – but only if the tears are not excessive and below mid-thigh

• Yes -- but only on Fridays

From the GMMS Handbook

"Shirts must have a single shoulder strap that is at least 2” wide and underclothing should not be visible. Clothing with excessive rips or tears will not be allowed. Students who fail to comply will be asked to make the necessary change."

From the GMMS Handbook

"Hats/hoods certainly may be worn to and from school, however wearing a hat/hood in school during school hours is not permitted. In order to keep your hats from being stolen or lost, they should be kept in assigned lockers. Students may be assigned detention if teachers have to repeatedly tell a student to remove his/her hat/hood."

From the GMMS Handbook

"Coats are not to be worn in school and should be kept in your locker."

Multiple Select

Misusing or causing deliberate damage to your Chromebook can result in which of the following? (Select all that apply)

• Your family being contacted

• Having to pay a fine

• Restricted use of your Chromebook

• Loss of Chromebook