Both the Elementary and High School will start the new year with new principals and with some new policies.
Keli Inzer will be over the elementary school and will be making sure the students arrive on time in order for them to get all the classroom instruction needed to help the students excel. A new tardy policy will be implemented to insure parents will get their kids to school on time. After 8:00 the child will have to be physically brought into the office and signed in. After 5 times of being tardy there will be parent contact and after 10 times a conference to figure out how to help with the tardiness. Also, grading starting at the Kindergarten level will transition from the traditional (A, B, C,..) to a standard space (1-3 mastery system.) This will eventually work through the 2nd grade. The system helps show the child's mastery or development progress of certain skills required at the particular age and grade level. Krysta Parker is the new High School Principal. In light of the push for eliminating cellphone usage in schools, the state is assisting by providing cases or bags for the cellphone to go into and magnetically sealed until the end the school day. The current policy at Hampton is that the cellphone is not to be used during school hours. The new policy change will be in the enforcement. The first offense will be the phone going into the bag for the day. A second offense would get five days of the phone in the bag and the third offense will see the phone in the bag for the rest of the semester. The phone will still be in the possession of the owner, it will just be turned off and locked in the bag which they will keep and returned to unlock at the end of the day.
Perhaps the best new thing this year will be the cafeteria with five new air conditioners instead of just one and a whole new food service. It's shaping up to be a good year.
