BCS District Update -

National Custodian Appreciation Day was Monday, October 2nd. A special thank you goes out to Neil Kline (Supervisor), Gary Albright, Brad Elliott, Rick Johannes, Dawn Miller, Ashley Vickers, Kaylee Thyng, and Leroy Dow for all they do to keep our buildings and grounds looking great!

Please join me in thanking our building principals:

• Mrs. Denton (Anderson)
• Mrs. Parker (Ryan)
• Mrs. Crabill (Bronson Jr/Sr High School)

Your hard work and dedication to Bronson students, families, and staff is so appreciated!

At their Regular Meeting on July 24, 2023, Bronson's Board of Education approved a Sinking Fund Resolution which includes ballot language for the renewal of the current sinking fund for voters to consider on the November ballot. The proposed renewal would renew the sinking fund at the current Tax Rate (1.9766 mills) to generate approximately $460,000/year, if collected.

Click the button below for information about the Sinking Fund Renewal Proposal. Be on the lookout for additional information between now and November 7th.

Please don't hesitate to reach out to me with additional questions you might have regarding this proposal. My contact information can be found at the bottom of this update.

The Board of Education approved the following changes to the BCS Handbooks.

ATTENDANCE POLICY

All absences will be recorded as Contacted (parent phone call/note, medical/court note) or Not Contacted (no parent phone call or note). The first 5 Contacted Absences will be considered as excused (see below). Failure to report an absence by telephone or provide a note on the day the student returns to school will result in the absence being recorded as Not Contacted and Unexcused.

EXCESSIVE ABSENCES FROM SCHOOL

Any student who is absent from school for more than 5 days between the first day of school and January 31st or between February 1st and the last day of school (please note: the 5 day limit will be “reset” on February 1st each year) is required to present a current medical excuse/formal documentation for each absence thereafter in order for the absence to be recorded as excused. The administration will follow Branch County Truancy guidelines regarding chronic absences/extensive history of absenteeism for students with excessive absences. This process may include working with a truancy officer and/or a referral to the County Prosecutor.

Building principals will be sharing the following updates to their respective handbooks:

Anderson Code of Conduct

Ryan Code of Conduct

BJSHS Dress Code

BCS Homecoming week was the week of September 25th and we had a wonderful week! All buildings participated in dress-up days and the week concluded with a pep assembly for the Jr/Sr High Students with our Unified Sports friends from Waldron joining in on the fun!

Congratulations to our 2023 Homecoming King: Logan Long, and Queen: Brealyn Lasky! Also, the Freshman class was the winning class from the homecoming spirit events held throughout the week - way to go, Class of 2027!

A special "thank you" goes out to everyone who made Homecoming week so great for our students and community as a whole.

• Anderson and Ryan have scheduled conferences (click button below to schedule a conference)

• Jr./Sr. High School Conferences will take place on:

• Wednesday, October 18th from 5:30 - 7:30 pm

• Thursday, October 19th from 4:30 - 6:30 pm

• Friday, October 20th from 12:30 - 2:30 pm

NWEA Reports will be shared with families soon! Please CLICK HERE to see a sample report with information about how to understand the information provided.

School Messenger is the system we use to send out phone, email, and/or text messages to our students, families and staff. These are often referred to in our district as "robo calls".

Please know that these most often will come outside of the regular school day/school hours. If you receive a call or have a missed call from a BCS number during this time of day, please wait to see if there is a voicemail that is left (School Messenger will leave a recording of the message) before you try returning the call.

Thank you!

Don't forget to vote daily for Bronson High School in the Johnny's Market School Spirit Challenge! We took over 3rd place on Monday, October 2nd and we're closing in on 2nd place now.

The challenge ends on October 16th! Click the button below to vote!

The official 2023-2024 School Year Calendar can be found here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14lvexmCUSPH8GEjPh2vojNZeCygqvb2C/view?usp=drive_link

Monday, November 6th @ 6:30 pm in the Bronson Jr/Sr High School Library

Board Agendas can be found here:

https://www.bronsonschools.org/administration/school_board/board_agendas

Minutes from Board Meetings can be found here:

https://www.bronsonschools.org/administration/school_board/board_minutes

Click the banners below to find the Facebook pages that are affiliated with our district.

School personnel are the administrators of the pages. *If you have information to share specific to a student, please do not message these pages. Instead, please call the school directly*