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Attendance: A Foundation for Success
Regular attendance is crucial for your child’s academic success and personal growth. We believe that being present every day helps students stay engaged, build strong study habits, and fully participate in the vibrant learning environment we offer.
· Attendance Policy: Our goal is to have all students attend school daily, arriving on time and prepared for the day ahead. If your child is absent, please notify the school as soon as possible and provide a valid reason for the absence. Consistent attendance is not only important for academic achievement but also for building a strong sense of responsibility and discipline. Teachers cannot maintain consistent procedures, in their classrooms, if students have inconsistent attendance.
· Chronic Absenteeism: We closely monitor attendance and will work with families to address any issues that may lead to chronic absenteeism. If your child accumulates an excessive number of absences, we will reach out to you to develop a plan to improve attendance.
· Excessive Absences: The State of Ohio considers 2 missed days of school a month to be excessive which equates to 18 missed days or 117 hours of lost instruction.
Please Note: In 2022, 74% of eighth graders (nationally) were not proficient in math due to the loss of instructional time during the pandemic. This directly correlates with an adolescent’s inability to substitute in-person learning, with a trained teacher, for online learning. In addition, students who attend school regularly have significantly higher graduation rates followed by higher yearly income rates.
Student schedules are available online through the PowerSchool Parent Portal.
We strongly recommend that you create a PowerSchool Parent Portal (instructions here) account so that you will be able to view your student’s grades and attendance in real time throughout the school year.
Change Schedule week (For legitimate schedule changes only) will be August 26th- 30th. Forms are available through Mrs. Ranslem (Miss Eber) or outside Mr. Lofton's office.
What bus do I ride? (TARTA Bus Riders)
Maritime Academy Transportation Assistance:
Mrs. Linzy Wilbur: secretary@maritimeacademy.us
Toledo Public Schools Transportation Contacts
https://www.tps.org/departments/transportation_services/transportation_portal
Because we are a Community (Charter) School we rely on Toledo Public Schools for transportation services which have been extremely helpful.
Drop Off for all Cadets
- CADETS must enter The Academy from the lower level glass double doors on Water Street Entrance beginning at 7:45 a.m. and ending at 7:55 a.m. After 8:00 a.m., ALL CADETS must enter The Academy through the front entrance on Walnut Street. Upon entering after 8:00 a.m., ALL CADETS must report immediately to the HELM where they will be given a TARDY slip.
- The DROP OFF area is at the corner of Water and Walnut at the lower level school entrance. PARENTS dropping off their cadets must enter the drop off area by turning right onto SYCAMORE Street from SUMMIT and then turning right onto Water Street. By Order of the City of Toledo Traffic Safety Department cadets arriving by car may only be dropped off on the school side of Water Street or Walnut Street. This means parents MAY NOT drive down Walnut street to drop students off on the WTOL side of Walnut or the River side of Water Street. The City of Toledo, Department of Transportation demands that Academy traffic patterns for drop off and pick up follow the regulations set forth by the Department as a condition for granting The Academy its “special use permit.” Deviation from this traffic pattern may result in consequences to the Academy.
Power School - Family Portal - The Maritime Academy of Toledo
Please let us know if you need assistance setting up the parent portal.
What Is Bullying?
Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems. In order to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and include:
An Imbalance of Power: Kids who bully use their power—such as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity—to control or harm others. Power imbalances can change over time and in different situations, even if they involve the same people.
Repetition: Bullying behaviors happen more than once or have the potential to happen more than once.
Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.
Bullying and Harrassment
The School prohibits acts of harassment, intimidation, or bullying (including cyber-bullying) of any student on school property or at school-sponsored events (any event conducted on or off School property, including School buses and other School related vehicles, that is sponsored, recognized or authorized by the Board). A safe and civil environment in the School is necessary for students to learn and achieve high academic standards. Harassment, intimidation and bullying, like other disruptive or violent behaviors, arc conduct that disrupts both a student's ability to learn and the School's ability to educate its students in a safe environment. Since students learn by example, school administrators, faculty, staff and volunteers should be commended for demonstrating appropriate behavior, treating others with civility and respect, and refusing to tolerate bullying.
"Harassment, intimidation, or bullying" means either of the following: l) any intentional, written, verbal, electronic, graphic, or physical act that a student or group of students has exhibited toward another particular student more than once and the behavior both causes mental or physical harm to the other student; and is sufficiently severe, persistent or pervasive that it creates an intimidating, threatening or abusive educational environment for the other student; or
2) violence within a dating relationship. The definition of "harassment, intimidation or bullying" also includes the above described acts which are electronically generated, stored or transmitted, sometimes called "cyberbullying".
The School reserves the right to discipline students' off campus behavior which substantially disrupts the School's educational process or mission or threatens the safety or well-being of a Student or Staff member. Factors which may be considered in determining whether the behavior warrants discipline include, but are not limited to, the following: (l) whether the behavior created material and substantial disruption to the educational process or the School's mission due to the stress on the individual(s) victimized or the time invested by Staff in dealing with the behavior or its consequences; (2) whether a nexus to on-campus activities exists; (3) whether the behavior creates a substantial interference with a Student's or Staff member's security or right to educate and receive education; (4) whether the behavior invades the privacy of others; or (5) whether any threat is deemed to be a true threat by the administration or Board, using factors and guidelines set out by the courts or by common sense, reasonable person standards.