Introduction

Every successful group of people that seeks to build a friendly, cooperative community decides to be bound together by common values and by mutually beneficial guidelines. It is our commitment to these principles and our responsibility to them and to each other that forges our identity as a community. The MJBHA presents you with this booklet, which details various school policies and procedures, to help define and maintain a safe environment that promotes learning, sensitivity, respect and religious, social and emotional growth in each of you.

No guidebook can cover every contingency of school life. We present many policies with levels of detail, but intend to convey more importantly the philosophy that informs the policies that guide the community we seek to build. If we note always that our mutual goal is to foster an environment in which high levels of learning and achievement are attained, and one in which students seek to develop a finely-tuned moral compass that is our hallmark as בני תורה, we will understand why all elements of this handbook are necessary.

This Upper School handbook is designed as a general outline to our protocols and policies, and the values that inform these guidelines. While some of the policies are written with finer details, much of the handbook represents general guidelines. The Upper School administration may deal with specific situations as it deems appropriate, on a case by case basis.

We are committed to an “Open Door” policy for both students and parents. Please feel comfortable to call upon the members of the administration regarding issues you would like to discuss and explore; we are here to grow and develop a generation of committed Jewish men and women, and positive conversations that further this goal are quite welcome. The model of a cooperative partnership between home and school should inform all such interactions. Ultimately our goals together are to inculcate Torah values and the wisdom of our general studies program in dignified, pleasant young adults who represent well what the Orthodox Jewish community has to offer.

To find out more about each topic that is addressed in the Upper School Handbook, please click on the links to the left. To view and/or print the entire handbook, visit Upper School Handbook.