Attendance

Attendance/ Tardy Protocol

Research has shown that excessive tardiness and absenteeism has a negative impact on student achievement and is disruptive to the educational environment for all students. Therefore, it is our goal to help all of our students get to school each day, and on time. Attendance is monitored weekly by the guidance and administrative teams. As a parent, you can expect to be contacted via email by your student’s guidance counselor when your child has reached 5 or more tardies or absences. If however, you have concerns about your child’s attendance prior to our contact please give us a call. We make our contact with you in an effort to help support you and your student in developing a plan to improve school attendance. Administration and/or the school resource officer are obligated to become involved if a pattern of absences or tardies continues.

What do I do if my child is absent from school?

The Main Office will contact the parents of students who have not alerted the school of their child's absence in order to ensure that the student is safe and accounted for. Please call your child's absence to the main office at 508-429-0657 and press option 3 after 5:00 pm the evening before or before 7:00 a.m. on the day of the absence and leave a message on the answering machine. Please provide your child’s full name, grade and homeroom teacher.When a student returns to school from being tardy or absent , he/she must have a note from the parent/guardian excusing the tardiness/absence. If the student returns from a tardiness/absence without a note, they will be required to report to the main office for an admittance pass and will not be reminded to bring the note to the office on the following day.

How does a student request homework when absent?

Students are responsible for getting make up work for assignments missed due to absence/tardiness by contacting a classmate, the teacher or checking the teacher's website. Assignments are to be completed and turned in within one day if absent one day, two days if absent two days, etc. or by arrangement with the teacher. If a student is absent from school for a week or more due to illness or accidents, the appropriate team teachers will coordinate a schedule for all make-up work. Tests and missed assignments must be made up after the student returns to school.

Tardiness to school and/or tardiness to class.

Students arriving tardy (after 7:30 a.m./during homeroom period) must present a note from a parent/guardian to the Main Office. A note from a parent/guardian is required to be on file in the Main Office any time a student is tardy from school. Being late for class and missing class deliberately is serious and disciplinary action will be taken.

Truancy

Any student who is absent for all or part of the school day without the knowledge/consent of his/her parent/guardian or who leaves school after arriving during the school day without the prior knowledge and consent of school authorities and of his/her parent/guardian shall be considered truant. The district truant officer will be contacted in these cases and appropriate consequences will be given.