Mount Logan Middle School

Mt. Logan Middle Schools
Community Council Minutes
April 13, 2026
3:45-4:45

Agenda 

• School Mission: Our mission is to ensure all students leave MLMS ready to create a positive future for themselves and their community.
• Budget Update:
  • Estimated Carryover: 2848.46 or 1%
  • Doing great! On pace
• Review March Minutes for Approval
  • Motion: Julie Benson
  • Second:  Amy Kleiner
• Goals for next year:
  • Approved by the school board
  • Waiting on state
• Members Term Limits and New Leadership
  • Council is 2 main groups
    • Parent/Guardians: Must be 2 more people than the employees 
    • School Employees
    • Typical structure: 4 parents/guardians and 2 school employees (including principal)
  •  Council Elections: 2 year term 
    • We would like to give 10 days notice in advance to see if anyone would like to serve. 
    • Add it to our school message out to parents. 
      • Give information on what is Community Council and what we do
      • Give times we meet- Once a month for about an hour. 
    • Reach out to Elementary Schools to see what parents may be recommended
    • Attach a google form to message:
      • Name
      • School area they live in (elementary school)
      • Position that they are interested in
    • Next month we will meet and vote
      • Ideas:
        • Have more staff to help with ideas- See value in staff being here to help give insight.
        • Just need to make sure we have 2 more parents when we go to vote. 
• Student Protests
  • Protest happened in February
  • Under Utah Law, students are required to attend school until age 18 unless they qualify for statutory exceptions. This means that leaving class without permission, such as for walkout, can be treated as an absence or discipline issue under attendance rules. 
  • Protest cannot disrupt schools or classes
  • We cannot punish students based on the message
    • We did this based on the fact that they were sloughing classes. 
  • All students who participated were marked as slough. 
    • Can parents call in and mark this as an excused absence.
      • If parents call in then their students must leave campus. 
    • Here at MLMS those who sluff are given a lunch detention
  • We can manage the time, place and manner of the protest.
    • We gave students a spot and the amount of time.
  • Questions?
    • What happens if students don't attend the lunch detention
      • It continues to accumulate
      • Assigned 2, if not show, half day, if not show , ect. 
    • What happens at lunch detention
      • Get mainline lunch only
      • Participate in a lesson on sloughing classes. Restorative lesson. 
    • If there was a walk out and parents picked up their student could it be excised? 
      • Yes, as long as students do not stay at school. 
      • Parents had to go into the school to get verified and marked that their student was checked out like the normal process. 
    • When this all happened was there any communication to the students?
      • Yes, as students went out we talked to them after they were out.
    • If any questions please contact Spence Holmgren

Cross-walk update

• Discussed at safe schools
• Discussed with the City and Police departments regarding moving the crosswalk.
  • They came out and looked at it.
  • Waiting on further information/ discussion

• Grading: how we can prepare students for what comes next 
  • We don't want students to fail
    • They are currently graded on what they know not what they do
  • Next year: We discussed Academic grades will be:
    • 78% formative assessment based
    • 22% of classroom work based
    • Maintail the same grading break down
    • Citizenship grading will remain the same. 
  • Parent Issue/ comments:
    • Students who are in high school struggling with the deadlines of assignments. Inconsistency when it comes to high school to middle school. As well as teachers to teachers at both high school and middle school. 
    • Rigger seems to be off as well 4 at MLMS then a C in high school
    • Needs Consistency

Next Meeting: May 11, 2026