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Bryson Middle School Attendance Clerk- Jeanecia Meaux-Branch
Bryson Middle School Attendance Clerk- Jeanecia Meaux-Branch
Welcome to the Bryson Middle School Attendance Website. On this website parents and/or guardians will be able to submit an excuse in regards to your child's absences, review attendance policies and other important information. Please use the Attendance Absence Form to send in your child's absence excuse.
Welcome to the Bryson Middle School Attendance Website. On this website parents and/or guardians will be able to submit an excuse in regards to your child's absences, review attendance policies and other important information. Please use the Attendance Absence Form to send in your child's absence excuse.
If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact the attendance office directly at 864-355-2101 or email jmeauxbranch@greenville.k12.sc.us
If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact the attendance office directly at 864-355-2101 or email jmeauxbranch@greenville.k12.sc.us
Early Dismissal Request
Please send a request to this email: BMSattendance@greenville.k12.sc.us
Include in your email:
- Student Name
- Student Grade
- Time of Dismissal
- Parent Name and contact number. If someone else, other than the parent is picking up the student, please list that name as well.
When you submit your email request you will receive a confirmation email that contains the attendance office phone number. You will need to call and confirm the student's early dismissal.
Please instruct your student to come to the front office in-between classes or during lunch to pick up their YELLOW SLIP. This will be their pass out of class. The student can meet you in the front office.
Submitting a Parent Note for Absence or Illness
Please send a note to this email: BMSattendance@greenville.k12.sc.us
Include in your email:
- Student Name
- Student Grade
- Date of absence(s)
- Reason for absence(s)
If you have a medical/dental/legal document or other documentation, you may attach to this email or submit separately to BMSattendance@greenville.k12.sc.us
If a student provides a medical note on letterhead from a provider, the absence will not count against the student. If a parent sends in a note documenting illness, the student will be allowed to make up any missed classroom work.
•TARDIES - Doors open at 7:45 a.m. to receive students. Students should be in their homeroom class by 8:20 a.m. for announcements and other important information that will be given. 1st period class will begin at 8:30 a.m. Students should be in their class prior to the bell. Excessive tardies, which is 4+ incidents will result in In School Suspension.
•EARLY DISMISSALS - A student who needs an early dismissal will bring a note written and signed by the parent/guardian to the attendance clerk in the front office. The note should include the student’s full name and grade level, reason for dismissal, dismissal date and time, parent/guardian telephone numbers (home and work) and signature of parent/guardian. Requests for early dismissal may not be made by telephone. At dismissal time, a parent or guardian is required to come into the office and sign the dismissal form. A picture ID is required for pick up. If anyone other than the parent or guardian is to pick up the student, identification will be necessary before the student is permitted to leave. To avoid interruption of instruction, pick up must be by 2:30. Early dismissals will be classified as excused or unexcused. The following will be considered excused: medical appointments, illness of students or immediate family members, death in the immediate family, or dismissals approved by an administrator.
•DISMISSAL - School is dismissed at 3:15 p.m.
•ATTENDANCE - Attendance is taken each class period throughout the day. Students are considered absent from a period if they miss more than one-half of that period. To be considered for perfect attendance, students must be counted present in all periods every day throughout the school year.
•ABSENCES - Any time your child is absent, a note must be provided within two days of the student's return to school. Absences without notes are considered unexcused. It is the student’s responsibility to turn in all notes to the attendance office or you may click on the link provided to submit a note. Absences that are considered lawful include: illness of the student or immediate family member, bereavement and recognized religious holidays. Unlawful absences include: absences without the knowledge of a parent or an absence without lawful cause with the knowledge of a parent.
•MAKE UP WORK Students are responsible to make arrangements with teachers to make up any work missed due to an absence. The work must be made up within five (5) days of the student’s return to school.
•TRUANCY A student is considered truant when he/she accumulates three (3) consecutive or five (5) total unexcused absences.
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