BOARDING PROGRAM

DORM PARENTS & CONTACT INFORMATION

Girls’ Dorm (Sumatera)
Paul & Emily Noble
0298-324537
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Boys’ Dorm (Sulawesi)
Jesse & Sue Robertson
0298-311675
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Dear Parents of Dorm Students,
    We welcome your child to the student dorms of Mountainview.  We strive to provide a loving, comfortable home-away-from-home for him or her.  Our dorms are provided for currently-enrolled students of Mountainview on a space-available basis, priority being given to children of missionaries and children that live far from Salatiga. Our dorms enable students from a great distance away to attend Mountainview.  
    Our current program is open to seventh through twelfth grade students.  Activities and outings are arranged on weekends for any dorm students. Dorms are closed during weeklong school breaks, and during these breaks we encourage dorm students to visit their parents.  
    Room and board payments are made with regular school fees to the Mountainview office.  In addition to sufficient money for weekly allowances, students are required to keep Rp. 500.000 on deposit in the dorm office to pay phone bills or to purchase supplies. An additional Rp. 1.000.000 needs to be deposited in the school office for emergency (ex. medical) expenses. This amount should be increased to Rp. 2.000.000 if plane tickets are to be purchased from this fund.  We request/prefer that students use round-trip tickets so that we do not have to handle purchasing plane tickets.
    We require that dorm students mark all clothing and linens with their name.  Unmarked clothing causes laundry room chaos! Unmarked clothing will be delayed in its return to your child and occasionally it may be lost.  
    We also expect you, the parents, to be responsible for routine medical and dental care.  We request that your child's injections for tetanus and diphtheria and oral polio be up-to-date and that he be given worm medicine (such as Combantrin) prior to entering the dormitory.  If your child suffers from allergies or some other chronic illness, which requires medication or supplies, you must leave clear, written instructions along with the necessary medicine and equipment with us. When you bring your child to the dormitory, we will discuss this matter with you so that we are ready to help your child quickly should the need arise. We will seek proper medical care in the event of emergencies or accidents while at school or in the dormitory, according to your preferences noted on the Liability Release and Guardianship Form, which accompanies your other registration forms.  It is very important that you return these forms including the Heath Form.  Without these forms we cannot accept your child in our dorms.
    When your child experiences minor illnesses during the school year, we would like to enlist your help. If your child becomes ill while at home, with a fever of 100° F [38° C] or above, please keep him at home until he is feeling well and has had no fever for 24 hours.  If your child contracts an infectious disease (including mumps, measles, etc.) while at home, please have him remain at home during the entire period when the condition is contagious so our other children are not exposed.  When your child returns to school and the dorm after an illness, please send a note of explanation regarding medications, activity restrictions, or special diet that we need to be aware of so we can properly care for your child.
      We, the dorm staff, pledge to do our best to maintain a healthy, happy, loving, and Christian atmosphere for your child as he/she attends Mountainview. The students, in return, will be expected to make a positive contribution to the school community. If they find this too difficult, other arrangements will need to be made.   Please let us know how we can serve you better as we work together with our loving heavenly Father to protect, nurture and love your child.
    Respectfully,
        Your Dorm Parents at Mountainview

Dear Student
    Welcome to Mountainview Dorms!  We are glad to have you join us and we look forward to getting to know you!  We, as your dorm parents, want you to feel at home and comfortable here.   Because there will be so many of us living together, we ask you to help us by observing a few guidelines. These may differ from dorm to dorm, just as they do from family to family. As needs arise, we will make adjustments to ensure the best living situation for everyone.  

RESPECT & RESPONSIBILITY

    We expect you to be kind and respectful to others, including roommates, friends, guests, household staff, teachers, and us, your Dorm Parents.
    We expect you to keep your room orderly with your bed made and closet and desk neat. Please be careful with the furniture and furnishings. You will be responsible for kitchen clean-up at certain meals or other jobs as a part of your life in the dorm.  Believe it or not, we think this is a good experience for you!

HOMEWORK

  We provide a quiet study room, with good lighting and plenty of space to help you get your homework done. If you request help on your homework or assignments, we will gladly assist you, but the work you do is up to you. If you fall behind in your studies, or your grades are not satisfactory, your teachers will tell us, and we may require more study time for you (this may mean you miss free time), or adjust your study environment.  

DEVOTIONS

    Because Christian religious training is a part of a Mountainview education, you will be expected to participate in dorm devotions and Sunday worship service and fellowship. We do not promote a particular church, but seek a common fellowship in the resurrected Christ.   We also encourage you to have a quiet time in prayer and Scripture reading on your own each day.  We suggest you have one Bible for school and one for the dorm.

SIGN-OUT

   We are responsible to know where you are at all times; so we need your help.  Anytime you leave the dorm (except for regular school hours), sign out on the sheet provided.  If you want to leave school grounds, first get verbal permission from one of us, and then sign out on the sheet provided.  Please return on time.  It is always best if someone else accompanies you when you leave campus. A girl may not go to town alone.

DRESS CODE

Please follow the school dress code at all times outside the dorm.  

TELEPHONE

    Any time you use the phone, please fill out the phone log completely.  It will be your responsibility to pay for all calls.  If you need to make an international call, you must first get permission.  Because there are many who use the phone, please limit the number and duration of your calls.
    Your parents or friends may telephone you at the dorm.  It is best if they call between 3:00 and 6:00 P.M. and between 8:00 and 10:00 P.M. (From 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. is the time for study and dorm devotions, after 10:00 P.M. is “lights out.”)    

LAUNDRY

    Label or mark your name on all your clothing and bedding before you move into the dorm.  Also label or mark any other possessions with a permanent marker. This will greatly help our staff.  We are not responsible for missing clothing or possessions.  If you have a need, to avoid confusion, speak to one of us rather than speaking directly to the household staff.

VISITORS

    You may have friends visit you in the dorm if you stay with that guest at all times and help your friend obey by all dorm rules. If you want to invite your guest to eat a meal with you, ask your dorm parent for permission, giving them enough time to adjust for the additional meal. You will be expected to pay for your guest’s meal.    
    When visiting a resident of the dorm, common courtesy requires knocking first and receiving permission to enter by a resident of the dorm/room.  Boys visiting girls or girls visiting boys will be welcome to visit each other in the family areas of the dormitory during appropriate times.  They will not be allowed in the private bedrooms, however.  

BORROWING

    We do not encourage borrowing personal property; however, if you choose to do so, it must be with the owner's expressed permission. If the item is lost or damaged in any way, the borrower will be responsible for its repair or replacement.

ROUTINE SCHEDULE

The following is an approximation of the daily schedule dorms often use:
6:00 AM            Wake up and get ready for school
6:45 AM            Breakfast
7:20 AM            Leave for school
7:40-3:00 PM    School hours
3:00 PM            Back to the dorm
3:15-5:00 PM    Free time or extra curricular activities like volleyball practice
5:15-6:00 PM    Supper    
6:00-6:30 PM    Dorm devotions or youth groups
6:30-8:00 PM    Dorm study time
8:00-10:00 PM    Free time or extra study time and prepare for bed.
10:00 PM         Lights out.

PACKING LIST

Every dorm student should bring the following items:

•    Clothing for school, church and leisure time (a good idea to review the Mountainview Dress Code before packing).  Also note that during rainy season, drying clothes sometimes requires a long time; so bring a minimum of several sets of appropriate school clothing.  
•    Shoes for school, church, sports, and sandals for indoors.
•    Sweater or jacket (the nights can be cool here).       
•    Bathing suit / towel (one-piece modest suit)
•    Shampoo, cream rinse, etc.
•    Hairbrush, toothbrush and other personal grooming items (toilet tissue provided)
•    Two sets of single bed sheets/pillowcases, a pillow, towels, washcloths, and a blanket  or bedspread
•    One flashlight
•    12 Clothes hangers (or you can purchase some locally)
•    Bibles (for dorm and school)                
•    Spending money (and a lock to lock it up)
•    Umbrella

DATING & MOVIES

    We will help determine for you acceptable group situations and movies. Written permission from your parents will be required to attend any movie theaters.  We expect you to be careful in your relationships with those of the opposite sex.  The public display of affection between a boy and a girl is to be avoided, in part because it is offensive in Indonesian society.  Couples should never be alone in non-public places. We encourage group dating rather than single dating; however, students in grades 11 and 12 may single date with our approval and remembering that God permits sexual intimacy only within the bonds of marriage.

NO-NO'S

    We will not allow any alcoholic beverages, tobacco,  narcotics,  knives with more than a 2 ½ inch blade, switchblades, pellet guns, other weapons, pornographic magazines or pictures, or heavy metal/hard rock music, or any media that has sexually suggestive or blasphemous Iyrics or images.  Do not bring personal VCD players or other types of small, portable TV’s or video devices to the dorm.  Dorm students are not allowed to drive motorized vehicles or ride on motorcycles while under the care of the dorm parents.  Dorm students may not “raid” other dorms.
    We will allow music that has encouraging and edifying words.  Most music lyrics and books should be in the English language. You may bring radios, tape recorders or walkmans to the dorm, but we ask that you please stop any loud noise at the earliest lights out time. You may bring a computer to the dorm, but it must remain in the dorm computer area and its use will be covered by the same contract as the dorm computers.  We strongly discourage any video games.   You may bring a hand phone to the dorm if you wish, but you will need to follow the same rules as with the dorm phone.  We require that you turn it in to your dorm parents at night and while you are away from the dorm.    You may not take your hand phone to school.  

DISCIPLINE

    Since you are young, we want to help protect you physically and mentally.  In the Mountainview dorms, we see discipline as more than a slap on the hand.  It is a vital teaching tool for your future. We want the dorm to be a home in which each student is given the freedom to grow, not to act foolishly. If you choose to disobey any of the rules, you will be given a strong reminder of the behavior required.  Appropriate discipline will be applied depending on your age and the severity of your misbehavior.  This may include a behavioral contract and/or grounding.  The contract itself will lay out further consequences if the behavior continues.  At any point we may meet with you and an administrator and write a letter to or call your parents, telling them about the situation.  Our final step would be to ask your parents to come to the dormitory to meet with all of us.  If required, you will be suspended (temporarily or permanently) from the dorm.  Please understand that, if your initial behavior in disobeying our rules is significantly severe, immediate suspension can take place.  We sincerely hope none of these steps will be necessary for you!
    Well, those are the BASICS you will need to know about our dorm life.  We did forget to mention that we have lots of FUN living together, which is only possible when we are considerate of each other.  If you run into a difficulty or have a concern, please let us know.  We are here to help you.  We look forward to your joining us or to your coming back after the summer break!
Love to you and your family,
Your Dorm Parents at Mountainview

GENERAL EXPECTATIONS FOR DORM STUDENTS

1.    Give respectful obedience to dorm parents and other adults.
2.    Demonstrate a proper and healthy respect for:
        a.    house-helpers and other school employees
        b.    adults (addressing them properly, etc.)
        c.    property of others (books, clothing, personal effects, etc.)
3.    Listen without interrupting.
4.    Give a courteous and truthful response when answering questions.
5.    Sit quietly and attentively in church services & devotions without disturbing others.
6.    Display courteous table manners.
7.    Eat meals in a reasonable amount of time.
8.    Eat a healthy, balanced diet.
9.    Cooperate with others in dorm by:
        a.    studying quietly
        b.    cleaning up after yourself
        c.   limiting calls and time on the phone
        d.   doing chores when assigned
10.    Make your own bed.
11.    Keep room and dorm areas neat.
12.    Use proper hygiene including:
        -   brushing your teeth
        -   bathing regularly and properly
        -   exercising proper toilet habits
        -   caring for your hair