Policies

Age: Nursery through Pre-school classes are reserved for children with older siblings attending. Your oldest child must be at least 5 by December 2025 to register.

Attendance, Sickness, and Weather: We need the help of all families involved. We ask that you commit to excellent attendance, and strive to be on time. Of course there are many reasons that may prevent your best efforts. Please stay at home if you or your kids are sick. Anyone with a fever, diarrhea, vomiting or even a nasty cold should take a break from class. If you have kids in the upper grades with younger siblings that need to be home because of a bug, consider sending middle and high school kids anyway so they don’t get behind.

Important: If you or your child needs to be absent, please contact Megan Brus as soon as possible, so that she can make sure to find a sub for you. (Please see the directory for her contact information)

Rarely, the steering team may decide to cancel an ERC morning for wide spread illness, snow, ice, or flash-flooding. If this happens, ERC will send a cancellation email and text out to our families as soon as possible.

Daily Routine: Chapel is the most important time at ERC, and we want all the moms to attend. You may arrive at church as early as 8:30 to make class preparations and get settled. Students and moms may go to the chapel room upon arrival. If you have toddlers and/or infants and need help corralling them while you set up your classroom, please let Megan Brus know, and she will assign a high school student to watch your little ones during that time. Following chapel, lead teachers will take their students to their rooms.

At the end of the day, parents are responsible to pick up their children under 2nd grade. All other children in will be dismissed to find their parents. All teachers must clean the tables, take out the trash, and turn off all lights at the end of the day.

Please remember that this time is for our children’s education; this is not a social time for parents. Each parent will have a break during the day; please reserve conversations for that time.

ERC administrator Megan Brus will be available all morning by text. Please see her contact information in the directory.

Homework:

Classroom coordinators and lead-teachers will submit a content-driven syllabus or year-plan. At the lower levels this will simply be a list of content themes for the year. At the upper levels this will include all books planned for the semester, a general agenda for each semester, and major assignment (i.e. papers or presentations) due dates.
Teachers will commit to assigning no more reading than what is included on the syllabus, but may at any time decrease content in order to insure that concepts are learned thoroughly. Students and parents will commit to completing the assigned reading and homework to the best of their ability.
Students, parents, and teachers will expect that if assignments are not completed the teacher will inform parents so that they can choose the best way to manage their child’s progress moving forward.

Behavior Policy: All children are expected to honor the Lord, their elders, and peers with their behavior. While at ERC Students are expected to:

Follow the teacher’s rules and directions the first time without argument.
Give their best effort in all classes.
Be in the appropriate areas at all times. (No wandering through the building).
Remain with their class, unless they obtain permission from their teacher to leave.
Treat others with Christ-like kindness and respect.
Clean up after themselves.
Use correct and polite language.

Discipline Procedures: ERC is another opportunity for kids and moms to grow in sanctification and Christ-likeness. We anticipate the need for mercy and grace with each other while working through discipline issues. When such a time arises, our protocol is as follows:

A kind, clear, verbal warning will be issued reminding the child that obedience and respect are the standard expectations.
If non-compliant behavior continues, he or she will be asked to take a “Time Out” from the rest of the group (i.e. the privilege of participating will be temporarily be taken away). In the case that the problem is unwillingness to participate, he or she will be given a second reminder before going to step 3.
If the problem persists, the child should be taken directly to their parent who must then assume responsibility.
If the behavior continues, an administrator will meet with the parent to discuss the next step(s) and best course of action.