Hi. We do not hold study hall in the LMC-study hall is held in the cafeteria and, during lunch, in classrooms. Classroom teachers cover study hall as a duty, whether it is held in the caf or in a classroom.
Study hall students are allowed in the LMC and our policy is to issue passes in the morning for study hall students. They sign up before school starts and report to their study hall during that period of the day; after checking in with their study hall teacher for attendance, the students are dismissed to come to the LMC. They are not allowed to go back and forth but must stay the whole time. Sometimes a study hall teacher will call the LMC to send a student from study hall; we allow it but remind the student to remember to sign up in the morning.

Also re: study hall students; our LMC is small here, and so if a classroom teacher has booked the use of the library, that teacher and students have priority for the use of computers and the physical space. Usually its enough to tell study hall students that the class will be using computers but on occasion the teacher of a large class will find the study hall students to be a disruption and we will close the library to study hall students during that class period in order to minimize distractions.


Kristie McGarry
Library Media Specialist
Derby High School
8 Nutmeg Avenue
Derby, CT  06418
Direct line: 203-446-2612 ; School line: 203-736-5032
www.derbyps.org/dhslibrary
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