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Board approves 2025–26 student handbooks and athletic handbook with edits
Summary
The Middleton board approved district handbooks and the athletic handbook for 2025–26 after staff summarized edits (calendars, prices, dress code, formatting, student ID, academic-honors criteria) and discussed specific athletic rules for game-day behavior and coach/parent interactions.
The Middleton School District board approved the district’s 2025–26 handbooks and the athletic handbook after staff summarized minor and substantive updates across elementary, middle and high school materials.
Why it matters: handbooks govern student expectations, attendance, discipline and extracurricular rules; changes affect families, staff and coaches and are in force for the coming school year.
Staff summarized edits for elementary handbooks (adjusted breakfast/lunch prices, calendars) and middle-school updates (dress code clarifications and removal of unused pages). The high-school handbook received structural formatting changes, a new student-ID policy, clarified academic-honors criteria (for example, a tiered honors system and an example for valedictorian eligibility referencing 12 AP/dual/CTE capstone credits), updated attendance/expulsion language, and clarified release-time rules for off-campus religious, medical or work activities. Staff said some disciplinary language was consolidated to avoid listing expulsion for minor infractions and to align tiered responses.
On the athletic handbook, athletic director-like staff (Mister Anthony in the transcript) walked the board through game-day expectations, ejection rules that apply to coaches, athletes and fans, and sportsmanship consequences. The board discussed enforcement language and whether to explicitly list parents; staff noted that the handbook’s fan language covers parents because parents are a subset of fans and that ejections may require an online sportsmanship class before readmission to games.
Board members approved the handbooks by motion, with the athletic handbook approved "with the discussed adjustments." Staff said they would clean up formatting and finalize dates and minor wording prior to publication.
