Textbooks

Textbook Policies 📚

• Write your name on the inside cover as soon as it is checked out to you.

• Cover textbooks to keep them from incurring serious damage. 

• Do not let your friends borrow your textbooks because YOU are responsible for each textbook on loan to YOU.

• Important Note: Even if a teacher allows a student to keep books in the classroom, the student is still responsible for his/her books.

• All materials must be returned by the last day of the school year or upon leaving SOH.

• Students must return/pay for all their previous year’s textbooks before the new school year begins.

• Students must return/pay for all their textbooks before they are allowed participation in extracurricular activities (athletics, dances, field trips) including promotion and graduation ceremony.

• Students must return/pay for all their textbooks before withdrawing/checking out to another school or program including within the Sweetwater Union High School District. Ed. Code Section 48904(b)(1) allows schools to withhold student grades, diplomas and transcripts.

• Incoming students must return/pay for their previous school’s textbooks before the new school year begins.

Failure to return/pay textbooks will result in (Ed. Code 48900-48927; BP 6161.2):

• Students will be placed on the non-privileged list until the entire debt is cleared.

• Students will not be allowed to participate in extracurricular activities (athletics, dances, field trips) including the promotion and graduation ceremony.

• School will withhold grades, transcripts, attendance records, promotion certificates and graduation diplomas.

Textbooks Online Option 

Students may have an option to use online (via internet) textbooks instead of printed version if the textbook is available online and the student has a computer/internet at home.  Parent signature and other requirements apply. 

Complete Sweetwater Union High School District Textbook Guidelines and Responsibilities