LABCS Weekly Newsletter - 1-18-25
RESPECT yourself, others, and our school. * Be RESPONSIBLE for yourself, your actions, and the learning environment. * Have a growth mindset and practice PERSEVERANCE.
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No School - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
1/20/2025
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Admissions Tour
1/21/2025, 10 AM – 10 AM
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Admissions Tour
1/23/2025, 1 PM – 1 PM
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Monday Dress Theme - "Era's Day" (dress like the 70s)
1/27/2025
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Rescheduled Evening Seminar - "What is Dyslexia?"
1/27/2025, 6 PM – 7 PM
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Admissions Tour
1/28/2025, 10 AM – 10 AM
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Admissions Tour
1/28/2025, 10 AM – 10 AM
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Admissions Tour
1/30/2025, 1 PM – 1 PM
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Dyslexia Tidbit
Signs in Teenagers and Adults
As well as the difficulties already mentioned in previous LABCS Weekly Newsletters, the symptoms of dyslexia in older children and adults can include:
- "poorly organized written work that lacks expression (for example, even though they may be very knowledgeable about a certain subject, they may have problems expressing that knowledge in writing)
- difficulty planning and writing essays, letters or reports
- difficulties revising for examinations
- trying to avoid reading and writing whenever possible
- difficulty taking notes or copying
- poor spelling
- struggling to remember things such as a PIN or telephone number
- struggling to meet deadlines"
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Board-Approved Electronic Policy - Effective 1-7-2025
Read More...
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Open Enrollment Application for the 2025-2026 School Year is Now Available
To access the application,
Read More...
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After-School Tutoring
Beginning in January, tutoring will be available for current LABCS students in the area of reading and/or math. We are fortunate to have been approved for a grant for this. Each session will be 45-minutes in length starting at 3:30 pm. Tutoring is also available on weekends. This is not available for getting students caught up on missed homework or in any other subject area. If you are interested in your child receiving tutoring to help bring their skills up, please reach out to Mrs. Disbrow ( [email protected]) in the front office. Days and times will be coordinated between you and the tutor, who will be an LABCS employee.
Rescheduled Evening Seminar
January 27, 2025, 6:00 pm at Lakes and Bridges Charter School
"What is Dyslexia?"
Please join us for this evening seminar discussing what dyslexia is with Gloria Hash Marcus, LPC, LPES, NCSP, SLT. Ms. Marcus is a Licensed PsychoEducational Specialist, a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Nationally Certified School Psychologist, and a Structure Literacy Teacher with 47 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and adults. She is the founder of Halsey Counseling and Educational Center, Inc. and was also featured in LABCS's documentary "Written Off: America's Failure to Educate Dyslexic Children."
This is free and open to the public. However, seating is limited and an RSVP is required. Please email the school at [email protected] and leave your name and contact phone number.
Annual School Climate Surveys
It is nearly time for the annual School Climate surveys that are used as a rated metric on the school’s report card.
The survey window for students, teachers, and parents opens on February 24, 2025.
We will be providing more information in the coming weeks as we get closer to the survey opening. In the meantime please make sure you have access to the Parent Portal. If you have never accessed the Parent Portal please reach out to the front office for assistance.
A Note from the School Nurse
Students are not allowed to carry ANY medication them without physician permission, parent/guardian permission, and school permission to self-administer and self-monitor (SC Law S144). This includes over-the-counter pain relievers and allergy and cold medications, including cough drops. Over-the-counter medications can be stored in the nurse's office with parent permission (physician permission is not needed). The ONLY medications that can be in the student’s possession (with the physican permission) are for asthma, diabetes, and severe allergic reactions. If you need a medication permission form or have any questions please contact Nurse Dava at [email protected] for the form.
A Note from the Front Office
Absence Notes
If your student is absent please submit a parent note or a doctor's note within 3 days of your child returning to school. Please send all school excuses to Michelle Tennant at [email protected].
If you bring your student to school late, 8:15 or later, you must walk in with them and sign them in.
A Note from the Development Director
THANK YOU for your contributions to our Annual Fundraising Campaign! From October through December, we raised almost $40,000 which will go to expenses, such as replacement furniture, LEAP Clubs, student activities, and more. Donations help us bridge the gap between the limited public funds we receive and the individualized education we offer to our brilliant student innovators.
You can still donate at any time of the year as the funding gap occurs year-round.
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By check made out to Lakes and Bridges Charter School with "Donation" in the memo line
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By cash in an envelope with your name, the amount, and "Donation" on it and given to the front office
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Through your IRA minimum distribution requirement -- contact your financial advisor
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Admissions Tours
Admissions Tours are held every Tuesday at 10:00 and Thursday at 1:00. These are designed to allow potential families the opportunity to see our school in action before and during the Open Enrollment period, which runs from January 1 through February 15.
Please call the front office at 864-442-5580 to schedule a tour on one of these days. Space is limited for these tours, and these last about 30-45 minutes.
Electronic Devices Reminders
On January 7, 2025, the new board-approved school-wide cellphone ban, which includes Smart Watches, went into effect. The policy will ban phones, smart watches, tablets and gaming devices during the school day. They would need to be powered off and put away. Exceptions will be allowed for students with IEPs and medical plans if the device is needed for medical or educational purpose
School hours are defined as beginning with the student’s arrival on campus as they exit their parent’s/guardian’s/carpool’s car during morning car line and ending when the student has entered their parent’s/guardian’s/carpool’s car to leave for the day.
Students must adhere to the school’s established communication devices/cell phones/smart watches protocol as directed. Failure to adhere to the policy established will result in the following consequences:
- 1st offense – confiscation for the remainder of the school day (no exceptions)
- 2nd offense – the device is, devices are, not allowed to be at school for two weeks (no exceptions)
- 3rd offense – the device is, devices are, not allowed to be at school for the remainder of the school year (no exceptions)
What is Chronic Absenteeism?
Chronically absent students are defined as having missed 10% of the total days within a school year. Research shows that students with a history of chronic absenteeism face a serious risk of falling behind in school, thus making it more difficult for them to succeed in the classroom.
- All types of absences contribute to chronic absenteeism:
- Excused (Lawful) Absences
- Unexcused Absences
- Suspensions
- A student is absent if he or she is not physically on school grounds and is not participating in instruction or instruction-related activities at an approved off-grounds location for the school day.
Lawful Absences
Lawful absences include but are not limited to:
- (1) absences caused by a student’s own illness and whose attendance in school would endanger his or her health or the health of others,
- (2) absences due to an illness or death in the student’s immediate family,
- (3) absences due to a recognized religious holiday of the student’s faith, and
- (4) absences due to activities that are approved in advance by the principal.
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