Additional Procedures
Additional Procedures
- Habitual tardiness, along with poor attendance, is also detrimental to the student’s academic performance and disruptive to the classroom environment. Continued or persistent tardy problems will be referred to the assistant principal as disciplinary issues. Prior to that, the teacher may issue discipline, call the student’s parents, or otherwise deal with the tardiness issue in keeping with the OPHS concept of progressive discipline.
- If the student arrives 15 minutes late to class, or more, he or she will be sent to the Attendance Office for a readmittance slip before being allowed in class. The time will be logged in the Attendance Office and the student will be marked absent on the teacher’s official record.
- Parents will still be required to call the Attendance Office at 735-3311 if an absence occurs. Absences that can be EXCUSED (see definitions below) will entitle the student to obtain makeup work during the 7th period session designated for that purpose.
- Habitual Truants will be reported to the School Attendance Review Board (SARB), which is a Ventura County process to investigate non-attendance and to enforce the state laws of compulsory school attendance until the age of 18. According to the State Education Code (Sec. 48260-64.5), a truant is defined as a student with three unexcused absences. On the sixth unexcused absence, the student is classified as an habitual truant and is subject to strict penalties as defined by law, including mandatory attendance at a truancy prevention program and suspension or revocation of driving privileges.
The teacher’s permanent record/roll book is the legal document that will be used to determine the student’s absence record in any class. Teachers will update their records regularly to show the disposition of each absence, according to reports furnished by the attendance office. Parents may call the Attendance Office to verify student’s attendance standing.