Lake Braddock Secondary School

Lake Braddock Secondary School provides instructional services for students in grades 7-12.

All Lake Braddock Middle School students belong to an academic team consisting of students who have the same teachers for English, math, science, and social studies. One learning disabilities teacher is assigned to each team to coordinate services for learning disabled students on the team. In addition, there is a counselor and an administrator on each team. Elective classes are located in different wings of the building. PE classes and gym lockers are in the gymnasium.

Lake Braddock High School students in grades 9-12 are located in Subschools III-VI. Students are assigned to a subschool and counselor by alphabet. Each subschool has an assigned administrator.

Discipline in all Fairfax County Public Schools is governed by the Student Rights and Responsibilities booklet. It is important that parents and students read this document, which is distributed to all students during the first month of school.

We have defined two primary goals for discipline at Lake Braddock Secondary School. The first goal is to provide a safe and secure environment for students and faculty. The second goal is to have students show respect for self, others, and property.

The faculty and staff at Lake Braddock Secondary School are committed to helping students make good choices about their behavior. If students make poor decisions, they will receive appropriate consequences for inappropriate behaviors. Discipline is a process which may include teacher intervention, team intervention, counseling, conflict resolution, and finally administrative intervention. Violations of Student Responsibilities and Rights will be handled by the student's administrator. Specific action may range from counseling to detention, suspension or ultimately a recommendation for expulsion.

The guidance program at Lake Braddock Secondary School is an integral part of the total educational program. A staff of professional counselors, under the leadership of Directors of Guidance, provides counseling services which include individual and group conferences, academic planning, career awareness, individual assessment, school/family conferences, and referrals.

Counselors work with teams at the middle school and individual teachers at the high school to meet the needs of individual students and to provide classroom guidance activities to help students with self-awareness, career development, interpersonal relationships, problem-solving techniques, and decision-making skills.

A student wishing to see his/her counselor should obtain a pass from a teacher and go to the appropriate subschool office. If the counselor is available, she/he will see you immediately; if not, simply fill out a request form, leave it in the counselor's box and go to class. The counselor will send for the student as soon as possible. A sign-up sheet is available in each subschool for high school students wishing to seetheir counselor.

The clinic is open from 7:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. daily. If a student becomes ill or needs medical attention, the teacher will issue the student a clinic pass. Students may not go to the clinic without a pass. If the clinic is closed, the student should report to the appropriate subschool office. Students are not permitted to carry any medication. Clinic staff may administer medications to students if appropriate forms have been filled out by parents and/or doctors and placed on file with the clinic. When emergency medical attention is required, the student shall be transferred to the nearest hospital and every effort shall be made to contact the parents.

Bus transportation is provided for students living more than one and a half miles from school. Riding the bus is a privilege, which may be denied to students who choose not to follow rules designed to ensure safety. Those rules include the following:

Late buses begin Monday, September 16, 2002. Thfollowing is a schedule of departure times:

Late bus routes are posted in each sub school. Administrators and security will assist students in finding exact route information. A bus pass is required for every student riding a late bus.

Students will be issued a locker in their subschool and will be asked to sign an agreement for the use of that locker. Lockers will be issued when the emergency care card, address update form and bus regulation form have been signed by the parent/guardian and returned to the school. Lockers are used for the personal storage of books and clothing, and students assume responsibility for the care of lockers, books and belongings. Lockers are school property, and the principal or designee may open lockers in the presence of a witness to examine the contents when there is reason to believe that the locker contains drugs, weapons, stolen property, unsafe, or other unauthorized materials. Lockers should not be shared unless requested by administration. It is important that students not share their combination with anyone for any reason. If there is a locker problem, the student should see the subschool secretary.

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Regular attendance helps to develop good study habits, good citizenship, and a favorable attitude toward school work and activities.

When a student is absent, a parent/guardian needs to call the attendance office answering machine preferably before 8 a.m.(703-426-1186). It is important for parents to give the student's name and grade level, the date, and the reason for the absence. The county lists the following as excused absences:

If a student has been absent for three days and will be out longer, it is advisable that a parent/guardian may call the appropriate subschool and request assignments. It usually takes 24 hours to collect assignments from all seven teachers.

In order to be excused for any reason other than those listed under attendance, a parent/guardian must send a note to the subschool attendance secretary at least two days in advance stating the reason and dates of the proposed absence. The student will be given a form which is to be signed by each of the teachers and the subschool principal prior to the absence. An excused absence or a prearranged absence permits students to make up missed assignments. For unexcused absences, the teacher is under no obligation to furnish make-up work. Assignments missed and not made up will affect the grade.

Students must assume complete responsibility for making up any assignments missed.

Students who arrive late to school must report to their subschool office to sign in. A note is needed from a parent/guardian explaining the late arrival.

A student will not be given permission to leave school grounds for any reason
during the school day unless prior approval (written note or phone call) from
parent/guardian has been obtained. Any student leaving school grounds without approval will be subject to disciplinary action. Each student must sign out at his or her subschool office. Only authorized adults may accompany students from the building.

If a student loses something he/she should check each of his/her classrooms and the Lost and Found located in the cafeteria, or check with the subschool secretary. Any item found should be taken to a subschool office. Items unclaimed at the end of the year are given to charity.

All visitors must report directly to the main office or subschool secretaries' desk before visiting anyone or any part of the building. Students may not bring visitors to school.The office interrupts classes only to deliver messages to students in case of extreme emergency. If your parent brings something to the office for you, it is your responsibility to stop by the office to get it.

Inclement weather may cause delayed opening of school, early dismissal, or closing of school for the day. Radio and television stations (FCPS Channel 21) carry this news as soon as such decisions are made. Parents and students should not call the local school or administrative offices for this information. Parents/guardians should make alternate plans so that the family will be prepared if an early closing or delayed opening should occur.

There are two honor rolls at Lake Braddock Secondary School: the all A honor roll, and the A-B honor roll. All students who make one of these honor rolls are recognized at the end of the grading period.

Students at Lake Braddock currently have access to the new library where over 50,000 items are available for checkout. The state-of-the-art library is located at the front of the building near the new main office. The new library provides shelving for all library materials, two online research labs, a research area for print sources, three teaching areas on the floor, a computer lab/classroom, a professional library, a television production studio, a student video-editing lab, and a video screening room. Students are able to search the online database for materials housed at Lake Braddock as well as those items housed at other Fairfax County Public Schools, which can then be accessed through inter-library loan.

The library subscribes to an array of online databases that can be accessed on school computers or through the LBSS website at

Many of the databases can also be accessed by our students from home with passwords supplied by the library staff. The combination of the print resources housed in the library and the online database subscriptions provides a comprehensive aggregation of resources to support the curriculum and the academic needs of the faculty and students. The library staff is always willing to help students and staff gain access to any materials that they might need to support their research.

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