Information for Meigs Students

Metro Nashville Public Schools is committed to providing a safe and secure learning environment. Meigs students are expected to always dress appropriately, showing respect for themselves and others.

• Inappropriate or disrespectful attire will not be allowed.
• Undershirts, tank tops, and spaghetti straps are prohibited for males and females. If worn, they must be worn with another “cover-up” shirt.
• Shoulders, backs, chests, and midriffs must be covered.
• Appropriate footwear must be worn at all times. Flip-flops, house shoes, slippers, and sandals without a heel strap are not appropriate.
• Hats and other head coverings (including hoodies and bandanas) are prohibited.

Special Provisions

• Approved head coverings worn as part of a student’s bona fide religious practices or beliefs shall not be prohibited under this policy.
• Meigs will provide reasonable accommodation to students whose bona fide religious belief, medical condition, or disability requires special clothing.
• Clothing with writing or images of substances that are illegal for teens (e.g., drugs, alcohol, tobacco products) or that are offensive, lewd, indecent, vulgar, obscene, profane, gang-related, or contain racial or ethnic slurs may not be worn.
• Chains and spiked accessories are not allowed.
• Meigs reserves the right to modify this policy as necessary and to determine what might be disruptive and unsafe.

At Meigs, we encourage student use of technology. Therefore, students may possess a cell phone, iPad, Kindle, or other electronic device while at school or school-related events. However, during school hours (7:30 am-3:00 pm), electronic devices must remain off, not on vibrate, and must remain concealed, out of sight, unless used with teacher permission as part of a classroom activity. The MNPS Policy and the Meigs Acceptable Use Policy apply to student use of electronic devices and the Internet during and outside of school hours.

Behavior Referral

1st offense

• Phone confiscated and brought to the office.
• Phone call to parent by Admin.
• Student may pick up phone at the end of the day.

2nd offense

• Phone confiscated and brought to the office.
• Phone call to parent by Admin.
• Parent must come to Meigs to pick up the phone.
• 3 days ISS.
• Beginning the next school day from confiscation, student is required to turn in the phone at the beginning of the day and pick up at the end of the day.

3rd offense

• Phone confiscated and brought to the office.
• Phone call to parent by Admin.
• Parent must come to Meigs to pick up the phone.
• Minimum of 1 day OSS.
• Cell phone not allowed on Meigs campus for the duration of this policy.

There is a direct correlation between student attendance and student achievement. Attendance is vital to academic success.

• 1–4 absences (excused and unexcused)
  • School personnel talks to student and calls parents to discuss absences.
• 5 absences (excused and unexcused)
  • Attendance secretary will run attendance reports each week to identify students with 5 or more absences.
  • School personnel will conduct an attendance assessment with each student or parent, and relay that information to the school counselor.
  • School counselor collaborates with the school MTSS team to assign student to appropriate support provider or program to address attendance barriers through the collaborative referral process.
• 7 absences (excused and unexcused)
  • Attendance team member has an attendance conference with parent and student and creates an attendance plan.
  • The attendance conference will take place via phone conference or virtual conference.
  • Attendance team continues progress monitoring.
• 8–9 absences (excused and unexcused)
  • Attendance team evaluates the effectiveness of the interventions.
  • Attendance team continues progress monitoring.
• 10 absences (excused and unexcused)
  • The 10-day, no show procedures will be followed if absences are consecutive.
  • Attendance team will decide the next level of intervention.
  • All absences after 10 will require a doctor’s note to be excused.
  • Attendance team continues progress monitoring.
• 11 absences (excused and unexcused)
  • Attendance team continues progress monitoring.

Lunch Times

• 7th Grade- 10:10 a.m.
• 8th Grade- 11:55 a.m.
• 6th Grade A- 11:15 a.m.
• 6th Grade B- 11:15 a.m.
• 6th Grade C/D- 12:40 a.m.

Lunch Visitors and Birthday Party Policy

Birthday parties are not allowed during school hours. If parents wish, they may send in a healthy snack to be eaten during lunch time in the cafeteria.

You are always welcome to join your child for lunch. Please sign in at the front office. Birthday party invitations may not be given out at school, unless invitations are brought for every child in the classroom.

Rewards Day Incentive

LiveSchool points (6th grade) and Meigs Moolah (7th/8th grades) are earned by completing classroom assignments. There are possibilities to earn these for awesome behavior and acts of unsolicited civility.

Students will be given opportunities to use Meigs Moolah in raffles, drawings, special events or privileges throughout the year. At the end of each nine weeks, students with 75% completion of assignments and no office referrals will be invited to the Meigs Reward Day or a grade-level activity. At those events, LiveSchool points or Meigs Moolah may be used for concessions, possible prize drawings and other specific rewards.

As a Meigs student, it is my responsibility to be academically honest at all times. I understand that cheating, dishonesty, and the misuse of the work of others and falsely claiming it as my own constitute behavior that is contrary to the sense of who we are (1) as a community. I understand that academic dishonesty is not only disrespectful to our academic community as a whole, but also unfair to individuals in our community who work diligently and honestly to complete assignments in a proper manner. (2)

At Meigs, we declare that cheating and dishonesty in any form is inconsistent with our values and aspirations, and in particular, the following forms of behavior will not be tolerated at our school

• Copying the work (including homework, written assignments, or projects of any kind) of another student and representing it as one’s own
• Copying the answers of another student during an exam, a test, or a quiz
• Possessing or using notes or crib sheets during an exam, a test, or a quiz
• Completing any assignment in a fashion forbidden by the teacher who makes the assignment
• Plagiarism (which we define as “to represent the words or unique ideas of another as one’s own, or to quote the words of another individual or source in a written assignment without giving appropriate attribution to the true source”)
• Obtaining from another student who has previously taken an exam, test, or quiz, information relating to either the questions on the exam, test, or quiz, or any responses to such questions
• Lying to a teacher about an assignment, or about one’s reason for failing to complete or turn in an assignment
• Lying to a teacher about anything else having to do with one’s schoolwork, attendance, or tardiness to class.

We further declare that a student who aids or abets another student in his or her enactment of any of the above-described forms of dishonesty is equally guilty of the kind of behavior that we as a community will not tolerate.
We acknowledge that we as students have unique opportunities to discourage, disrupt, and diminish acts of cheating and other forms of dishonesty as we observe or learn of them, and we understand that the faculty and administration of Meigs are committed to protect and ensure the confidentiality of any conversations we may have with them about our observations or awareness of acts of dishonesty. (3)

Meigs Academic Misconduct Policy

When students are expected to do their own work (on assignments, projects, and assessments), they will not cheat, copy, or take credit for somebody else’s work. When using other people’s ideas, words, or information, students will properly cite their sources of information.

Language taken from Hume-Fogg Honor Code and used with permission of Hume-Fogg

LiveSchool points (6th grade) and Meigs Moolah (7th/8th grades) are earned by completing classroom assignments. There are possibilities to earn these for awesome behavior and acts of unsolicited civility.

Students will be given opportunities to use Meigs Moolah in raffles, drawings, special events or privileges throughout the year.

At the end of each nine weeks, students with 70% completion of assignments and no office referrals will be invited to the Meigs Reward Day or a grade-level activity. At those events, LiveSchool points or Meigs Moolah may be used for concessions, possible prize drawings and other specific rewards.