Baton Elementary

The following rules will be incorporated in the 2024-2025 team bylaws:

1. Students must read all books and test on the book after reading the book for the second time. There is a limit of no more than 12 students on the entire team, 6 of whom may alternate for rounds during the day of competition.

2. Students must come to weekly meetings and participate in book discussions.

3. There will be a limit of three  excused absences. Please have your child bring a note explaining absences.

4. There will be a deadline for reading all 17 books. Deadline will be determined at a later date.

5. Students will be considered for the competition team by the merit of their participation, their ability to answer book questions, discussion of book characters, themes, titles & authors.

6. Teacher evaluations and class participation will be considered in the selection of the competition members.

7. All Battle of the Books participants will be part of the Baton 2024-2025 Team and are important for the overall competition team, but we can only compete with six members at a time. The competition members must have read all the books on the Battle of the Books list and have successfully tested on all 17 books. The six members will be rotated in and out of competition at different times.