Doors open at 7:45. All students enter through their designated grade level doors and report to the cafeteria or their designated area. Breakfast is served from 7:45-3:10 in the cafeteria. Grab-n-Go breakfast will be served for students who arrive after 8:10 until 10:15.
Parents must check in with the front office and request to pick up their children from school. Persons wishing to pick up students during the day must have a state-issued photo identification.
Students arriving at school after the school day has begun and students leaving school while school is in session(including lunch periods) must check in and out at the office accompanied by an adult. Students who fail to check out during the school day will be considered truant.
Our priority is student learning. Students are not permitted to miss class in order to attend sibling's extra curricular events.
As part of the Texas Education Code (Sec. 37.0012), all schools in Texas shall designate a Campus Behavior Coordinator whose primary responsibility is to maintain student discipline for the campus and be a contact for parents or guardians concerning individual student disciplinary actions by the school. The person designated may be the principal of the campus or any other campus administrator selected by the principal.
Your Campus Behavior Coordinators
Breakfast
Breakfast Times are 7:45-8:10 a.m. Students eat breakfast in the cafeteria.
Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value Exempt Days
FMNV Exempt Days are days that foods of minimal nutritional value can be eaten. These days are usually class party days. FMNV exempt days have been selected for 2021-2022 Those days are Winter Party, Valentine’s Day and End of Year Party. In addition to these three set days, three more days have been granted.
Lunch
Short Elementary is an open campus for lunch except on testing days.
In accordance with Texas Education Code 37.105 UNAUTHORIZED PERSONS: REFUSAL OF ENTRY, EJECTION, IDENTIFICATION -
(a) A school administrator, school resource officer, or school district peace officer of a school district may refuse to allow a person to enter on or may eject a person from property under the district's control if the person refuses to leave peaceably on request and:
(1) The person poses a substantial risk of harm to any person; or
(2) The person behaves in a manner that is inappropriate for a school setting and:
(A) The administrator, resource officer, or peace officer issues a verbal warning to the person that the person's behavior is inappropriate and may result in the person's refusal of entry or ejection; and
(B) The person persists in that behavior.
(b) Identification may be required of any person on the property.
(c) Each school district shall maintain a record of each verbal warning issued under Subsection (a) (2) (A), including the name of the person to whom the warning was issued and the date of issuance.
(d) At the time a person is refused entry to or ejected from a school district's property under this section, the district shall provide to the person written information explaining the appeal process established under Subsection (h).
(e) If a parent or guardian of a child enrolled in a school district is refused entry to the district’s property under this section, the district shall accommodate the parent or guardian to ensure that the parent or guardian may participate in the child’s admission, review, and dismissal committee or in the child’s team established under Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. Section 794), in accordance with federal law.
(f) The term of a person’s refusal of entry to or ejection from a school district's property under this section may not exceed two years.
(g) A school district shall post on the district's internet website and each campus shall post on any internet website of the campus a notice regarding the provisions of this section, including the appeal process established under Subsection (h).
(h) The commissioner shall adopt rules to implement this section, including rules establishing a process for a person to appeal to the board of trustees of the school district the decision under Subsection (a) to refuse the person's entry to or eject the person from the district's property.
A person ejected from or refused entry to District property under this provision may appeal this action by filing an appeal under FNG(LOCAL) or GF(LOCAL) and shall be permitted to address the Board in person within 90 days of the commencement of the appeal if the grievance is not resolved at a previous level before the board considers the appeal.
The board's decision to grant or deny an appeal under this section is final and may only be further appealed under the applicable provisions of Texas Education Code 7.057.