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Principals outline middle-school handbook updates including tighter cell-phone and footwear rules
Summary
Washburn middle-school principals described modest wording changes and specific safety updates to handbooks: a single 'falcon' schedule for interventions, bell-to-bell cell-phone rules with locker storage, a ban on onesie pajamas, a footwear safety rule for polished-concrete floors, and clarified fidget/sensory-tool limits.
Mike, principal at Washburn Middle School, reviewed the 2026–27 student handbook revisions for middle schools and said most edits are wording and consistency changes after last year’s larger restructuring. "We just made a falcon schedule rather than having 4 names or 4 different schedules for kids," he told the board, describing a single intervention/enrichment block the schools will use.
Principals and administrators described tightened cell-phone language (devices stored in lockers or backpacks and inaccessible during class time), dress-code clarifications (no onesie pajamas; limits on coats left on chairs for safety) and a footwear guideline for buildings with polished concrete to reduce slips. The discipline matrix was adjusted to address recurring cell-phone and fidget-tool issues while preserving special-education exemptions for IEP or 504 plans.
