STUDENT LIFE

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Students are expected to attend all classes. If you miss a class for any reason, you are required to meet with your instructor and make up the missed hours on campus:

• Completing missed assignments;
• Completing any additional assignments given to you by your instructor; and,
• Paying for and attending the class you missed (additional fees apply).

Because Massage Life Academy is a clock hour program, every minute counts toward your education. We strongly encourage you to arrive on time, but we understand that sometimes circumstances outside of your control does occur. You are allowed three (3) tardies per module (no later than 15 minutes). After that, you will be required to pay for and attend make up sessions.

Massage Life Academy welcomes students of all races, religions, nationalities, genders and gender identities, sexual orientations, and ethnic origins and does not discriminate on any basis. We actively protect the rights of students, faculty, and clientele and ensure that everyone’s experience is 100% free of discrimination or harassment. If you feel discrimination or harassment has occurred, contact administration. Your grievance will be addressed immediately and confidentially.

It is the policy and practice of Massage Life Academy to maintain and foster a working and learning environment based on trust and mutual respect. Accordingly, we have a zero-tolerance policy toward unlawful harassment, including but not limited to sexual harassment. This zero-tolerance policy means that no form of unlawful discriminatory or harassing conduct towards any student, employee, client, or other person within school grounds will be tolerated. Massage Life Academy is committed to enforcing its policy at all levels within the school, and any student, contractor, or employee who engages in prohibited discrimination or harassment will be subject to discipline and legal ramifications, up to and including immediate discharge from the program and/or employment for a first offense. For more information, or to report harassment, Print This Form.

While enrolled, students are expected to maintain the same high standards expected of professional licensed massage therapists. Students are expected to:

• Maintain optimal health and well-being through adequate diet, sleep, exercise, recreation, and effective planning of time and energy.
• Uphold the highest standards of academic integrity by not cheating, stealing, or being dishonest; this includes doing your own homework and not copying classmate assignments.
• Be honest in their communications, maintain confidentiality of personal information shared at school, and respect personal property of others and the school.
• Work and communicate with everyone in a respectful, professional manner.
• Respect others and do no harm to the physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual well-being of themselves, classmates, clients, etc. Discrimination and harassment are grounds for immediate dismissal.
• Maintain high standards of personal hygiene and appropriate dress.
• Being under the influence of or possessing alcohol or illicit drugs is strictly prohibited and grounds for immediate dismissal.
• Dating and intimate relationships (between students and faculty members, while the student is enrolled at Massage Life Academy) are strictly prohibited, and grounds for immediate dismissal.
• Massage therapists are ethically and professionally obligated to hold client information in confidence (i.e., limited to discussions only within the school-to-school members). Everything discussed and deemed personal in the classroom or clinic must not be shared with others but appropriate school personnel. Clinic clients should always be interviewed in private.
• Proper draping techniques and individual modesty are to always be respected. Genital areas and breasts are to always be covered and never massaged. Proper draping protocol as taught and demonstrated at school is to be observed. Also, the entire buttocks including the glutal cleft and fold are to always remain covered unless partially exposed and worked only with the classmate’s verbal or client’s verbal and written consent.