"Rules" of SMART lunch

SMART= Students Maximizing Achievement, Relationships, and Time.

SMART lunch was a two year contract Kennedy High School signed for the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 school years. The first year of SMART lunch was 80 minutes long, but this year it is 60 minutes long. This period consists of two 30 minute "tutorials", tutorial 'A' and tutorial 'B' during which students can go to their teachers and get extra help. Teachers have assigned "tutorials", two a week either 'A' or 'B'. If students are not attending a "tutorial", which they are highly encouraged to do, they may go to the cafeteria and get lunch, or go to the library, or go to the gym. 

Freshman and sophomores are not allowed to leave campus during SMART lunch, as it has always been, but juniors and seniors are allowed to leave, but under some restriction. Upperclassmen may only leave for SMART lunch if they meet the requirements of the "SMART lunch sticker". Students only apply for a "SMART lunch sticker" if they had no D's or F's for the previous term or half semester. If they do not meet this requirement they are not issued a smart sticker and therefore cannot leave. If you meet the requirement you have to get a permission slip signed by a parent or legal guardian in order for you to get the sticker giving you permission to leave. As you leave the building at the beginning of SMART lunch you have to show your ID with your sticker on it. If you do not have a sticker, you are not let out of the building.

However, there are ways around this "SMART lunch sticker". Parents are able to call into the attendance office at the school and dismiss you from school. If this is the case, you are brought a "pass" to one of your classes that says you are leaving at this time. If you are being called out during the lunch period, as you leave the building you show them the pass that you have been "called out" and they will let you go. This is the only way underclassmen are able to leave during lunch. Teachers and staff don't like when underclassmen are "called out" during lunch, because it goes against the rule of only upperclassmen being allowed to leave during lunch, but there's nothing they can do about it because the parent called and excused their child.