Notice:
- The attendance procedures will be included
in handbooks and will be reviewed with students at the start of the school year.
- Parents will receive a summary of these
procedures by mail at the beginning of the school year.
- Faculty and staff will be provided with a
copy of the attendance procedures.
- All faculty and staff will meet at the
beginning of each school year to review the attendance procedures.
- The attendance procedures will be reviewed
during "Meet the Teacher" night at the beginning of each school year. The
importance of student attendance, as well as the importance of the role the parents play,
will be stressed.
- The Principal’s Bulletin will include
reminders of the components of the procedures on a periodic basis.
- Copies of these procedures will be made
available to any community member upon request.
- When a student is absent, tardy, or leaves
early from class or school without excuse, teachers, the attendance secretary, or
designated staff members will notify the student’s parents by phone of the specific
ATED (unexcused absences, tardiness, and early departures).
General Procedures:
- The teachers, on a period-by-period basis,
take attendance daily in each class.
- All attendance information is brought to the
attendance office secretary, who oversees the keeping of records.
- The nature of an ATED will be coded on a
student’s record.
- Attendance summaries are provided at the end
of each day to the building administrators.
- When additional information is received that
requires corrections to be made to a student’s attendance records, corrections will
be made immediately. Notice of a change will be sent to appropriate school personnel.
- Continuous monitoring will be conducted to
identify students who are absent, tardy, or leave class or school early.
Attendance Incentives:
- An attendance honor roll will be published
quarterly and at the end of the school year identifying those students with perfect
attendance. Students who qualify will receive awards for their accomplishments.
Disciplinary Consequences:
- As per the middle school Code of Conduct, disciplinary consequences will be enacted when
attendance policies are violated. Parents will be informed of resulting disciplinary
actions.
- The relationship between attendance and
student performance is essential. Consequently, each marking period a student’s
grades may be based on classroom participation in addition to performance on homework,
tests, papers, projects, etc.
- Students who are unable to attend school on
a given day due to their participation in a school-sponsored activity may arrange with
their teachers to make up any missed work. This also applies to any student who is absent,
tardy or leaves early from school or class due to illness or any other excused reason.
- Students who are absent from school for
unexcused reasons (i.e. a family vacation that does not coincide with the school calendar)
will be expected to make up all work. Students are responsible to notify teachers of such
absences in a timely manner.
- Students who are absent from school will be
given make up opportunities for specific assessments and assignments and must complete the
aforementioned by a date specified by the student’s teacher.
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