If for any reason you must leave school during the
day, you must be picked up by your parent or guardian. You will be called
from classroom the intercom or by phone when someone comes for you. If you
return to school the same day, you must physically accompany your child to
check in at the office. Our Tardy Policy is detailed below:
Parents are no longer allowed to check out a
student after 2:32 pm to ensure effective
instruction in our classrooms. If you come after 2:32,
you will wait until 3:19 when your child is released.
When you come to check out your child, please
allow sufficient time for your child to be located and to go by his/her
locker. Parents, we ask that you do not call the office ahead of time and
ask to have your child waiting in the office to be picked up. We are not
permitted to do this, as it results in loss of instructional time.
Appointments with doctors, dentists, etc., should be made at times other
than school hours if at all possible. If it is made during school hours,
then the appointment card must be presented to verify the appointment.
Most professional people will cooperate with you and give you appointments
at other times if you request them.
Under no circumstances will a student be allowed to meet someone in the
parking lot or allowed to leave the school premises without parents
accompanying him/her.
Students must be present for three hours
and twenty-five minutes or half of the total school day regardless of the
daily schedule. For example, a student who arrives on time at the
beginning of the day and is checked out after 12:15 am would not
be marked absent for the day.
Tardy
Policy
- Parent/guardian
must sign in student at front office if student is tardy.
- Front
office will keep a list of those students who are signed in without a
parent/guardian. If it
occurs more than three (3) times, a parent meeting will take place
with an administrator and the social worker.
- If
a student is late for any other reason than medical, it is an
unexcused tardy.
EXCUSED:
- After
three (3) excused tardies, parent/guardian is informed that a
doctor’s note is required for all further tardies.
Parent/guardian may submit a written note from the doctor for
the remainder of the semester stating that the child has continuous
appointments. Each
semester, a new medical note is required.
If one is not given, the tardies will then be deemed unexcused.
UNEXCUSED:
- After
three (3) unexcused tardies, a discipline referral for truancy is
submitted to an administrator and student receives a verbal warning.
- After
five (5) unexcused tardies, a discipline referral for truancy is
submitted to an administrator and student may receive in-school
suspension along with having a team meeting involving parent/guardian,
social worker, and team teachers.
- After
eight (8) unexcused tardies, a second discipline referral for truancy
is submitted to an administrator and student may receive in-school
suspension. The student
will no longer be eligible for perfect attendance. If a student is in
extracurricular activities, they will jeopardize participation in that
week’s events (i.e. sports, clubs etc.).
- After
ten (10) unexcused tardies, a discipline referral for insubordination
is submitted to an administrator and student may receive out of school
suspension.
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