See also:

• School Library Rules
• Physical Education Rules

Students are to turn off all cellular phones and store them in a backpack, purse, pocket, or other place where they are not visible during normal school hours, or school activities. Students must comply anytime a request is made by school personnel to cease the use of a cellular phone, pager, or electronic signaling device on campus before and after school. If such a device is observed by staff during school hours or activities, it shall be confiscated until redeemed by a parent or guardian. Confiscated items will be returned to a parent between the hours of 3:15 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. at the Dean's Office. Items will not be returned at other times.

Palms Middle School and Los Angeles Unified School District assume no responsibility for the loss, recovery, repair or replacement for any personal electronic devices brought onto school property at any time. School Administration will not spend time to locate these prohibited items if they are lost or stolen.

Computers with Internet access are available in the Library and in classrooms. Students may use the Internet from these computers for research and appropriate classroom assignments if they and their parents have completed and returned the LAUSD Acceptable Use Policy form.

Download: LAUSD Acceptable Use Policy

For everyone's safety, all passengers must remain seated while buses are moving.

Passengers are also reminded that loud conversation and other unnecessary noise are not allowed on school buses in order for the driver to hear emergency vehicle sirens and other warnings. Passengers may not bring animals on the bus, unless approved under the provisions of the California Motor Vehicle Code (animals used to assist the disabled).

Please be courteous to other passengers. The use of profanity is not permitted on the bus. Please keep all body parts inside the bus. Remember, for safety reasons, eating is not permitted on the bus.

Student services will not deliver items brought in by parents for their children to student classrooms. Students must plan to pick up items from the office that have been delivered. This policy will limit disruptions of class instruction and facilitate a full instructional program for all students.

Palms Middle School does not tolerate any harassment, racial or ethnic bigotry, hate crime or discrimination on the basis of gender, handicap, religion or sexual orientation.

See also the Code of Conduct.