Parents,

We recognize that cell/smart phones are a regular part of yours and your child’s lives. In order to maintain the security of our testing sessions, as well as to reduce distractions for others, we are asking you to discourage your child from bringing their phones with them to school during our final exams this Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Should your student absolutely need to bring their phone, please encourage them to have it turned off and stored in their lockers. If their phone comes into the classroom, students will be directed to turn them off and turn them in during the testing session, a similar practice occurs during our upcoming SAT exam. At the end of the testing session, students that turn in their phones to the teachers will receive them back.

Any student who has a phone out during an active testing session may receive disciplinary action in accordance with our student code of conduct, possibly resulting in an out of school suspension, as well as possible invalidation of that exam.

We recognize this may be an inconvenience, but feel confident that this will better support a more secure and focused testing atmosphere.

As a reminder, Dearborn High School is NOT responsible for lost or stolen cell phones or electronic devices.

Thank You

Mr. Martin

PE swim make-ups and extra credit will be available on the following dates:

Thursdays at 2:30 in the afternoon:

December 14, 21 and January 11, 18, 25

Tuesdays at 6:30 in the morning:

January 9, 16 and 23

These dates are open to all PE classes for extra credit or swim make-ups for boys and girls.

For all 9th grade PE classes: Our first semester swim unit will begin Monday, December 4 and finish on Friday, December 22. All students are expected to come prepared with an appropriate swim suit and towel.

After School Tutoring and Extended Media Center Hours

Open House

Parents,

We’re all excited and eager to begin the 2017-18 school year and know it’s going to be a great one. As you know, tomorrow is the first day of school; students will attend all their classes and will be dismissed at 10:30 am.

I’d like to answer a few questions to help with the morning. If your student was unable to pick-up their schedule at registration, we will be able to collect their forms, get them their schedule and picture ID tomorrow morning; please have them report to the cafeteria.

Students who are missing a class on their schedule need to report to the guidance/counseling office only during the hour where they have a conflict.

If your child has a full schedule, but has a concern with the class they were assigned have them get a course change request sheet from the guidance/counseling office and turn it in at some point within the next few days; most of these issues can be resolved without your child needing to miss classes.

The only class changes that will be approved are those where your child has already had the class or doesn’t need the class to fill a graduation requirement.

Some students schedules may have changed since registration, please let your child know that when they get to school this may impact them.

If you’re wondering about supplies, just make sure they have something to write with and something to write on and we’ll be able to help from there.

Lastly, we recognize for some of our students this is all new. There will be adults all around the building, encourage them to ask one of us if they have any questions.

Enjoy your last day of summer, we’ll see you all tomorrow.

Thanks

Mr. Martin

Hello Parents,

Congrats to our June students of the month: 12th Grade-Ishy Kleeberger, 11th Grade-Joe Wendzinski, 10th Grade-Mohamed Wahidi, and 9th Grade-Neda Abdulla. Also, congrats to the high school teacher of the year for Dearborn Public Schools, DHS’s own Mr. Tom Brown!

For those of you who didn’t order a yearbook, there are still some available for $75 in room E-5; please hurry if you’re interested as there’s only a limited quantity.

As a reminder, all students are required to take a cumulative final at the end of the year, check out the attachment.

Here’s our final exam schedule that was also in the Pioneer Post:

On May 4, out swim unit ended for the second semester. The following dates and times are available for swim make-ups:

Wednesday, May 10 at 6:30 a.m. (co-ed)

Thursday, May 11 at 6:30 a.m. (co-ed)

Thursday, May 11 at 2:30 p.m. (co-ed)

Tuesday, May 16 at 2:30 p.m. (co-ed)

Hope to see you there!