Attendance
While absences are a fact of life, and lessons can be made up following an absence, much of the learning which takes place is due to interaction with the teacher and other students. Therefore, it is important that students be in class each day if they are to gain all that is essential. Likewise, if part of our purpose is to prepare students for the adult world, then two virtues which our society demands in order to succeed are punctuality and regularity. The following rules and regulations shall be enforced in order to provide every opportunity for educational quality for every student at Lakeview High School.
- Absences totaling up to 9 per semester may be considered excused if the student’s parent or guardian notifies the school with a phone call or in writing as soon as it is known that the student will be absent and if the student is either home-bound or in the accompaniment of his/her parent or guardian. The school will attempt to contact the parents or guardian when the student is absent. If the parents (guardian) were unable to be reached on the day of the absence, it becomes the student’s responsibility to verify that absence. If the school has not been notified, either by phone or a note from the parents, within two school days of the student returning to school, the student may be considered unexcused and disciplinary measures enforced.
- It is the student’s responsibility to contact their teachers or classmates for make up work.
- Students will be allowed 9 aggregate days of absence per semester. Absences verified in writing by a member of the professional community, school related absences, and absences allowed by the administration due to extenuating circumstances will not be included in the total.
- Any student who exceeds the nine absence rule will receive no credit for the class or classes in which the excessive absences took place.
- Parents and students will have access to the same appeal procedures that apply to long-term suspension and expulsion from school.
- Any absence may be deemed as unexcused regardless of what the phone call or note from the parent or guardian states. Students with unexcused absences will receive a “0” for each class from which they are absent for any grade taken during the absence.
- TRUANCY shall be defined as being absent for all part of the school day to truancy without prior school or parent knowledge and/or consent. Absences due to truancy will be considered unexcused and disciplinary measures such as in-school suspensions or detentions to make up the lost time will be considered.
- TARDIES – It is important that our students understand the value of being punctual in order to function in today’s society. Therefore, the following policy will be enforced. There will be no distinction made between excused and unexcused TARDIES to school. There are several tardies built into the policy that allow for those special times the students are running late. On the fourth, seventh, tenth, and thirteenth tardy to school the following discipline will be given: a one half hour detention, an hour detention, an in school suspension, and an out of school suspension respectively. After the thirteenth tardy, each tardy will result in a doubled out of school suspension until the seventeenth. On the seventeenth tardy to school the student will be recommended for expulsion. Tardies to class during the school day will be handled by the individual instructors. Parents are encouraged to conference with school officials if the student reaches the point when they are suspended out of school. This policy is cumulative throughout the entire school year.
- Students who are absent, because of an illness, on a day when they are scheduled to participate in an activity, will not be allowed to participate in the activity unless the student returns to school and is in attendance no less than the three class periods immediately preceding the activity.
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