Happy Friday Dragons!

The first nine weeks is officially over! It is incredible how quickly it has gone. Middle School fall sports only have one more week of competition and high school fall sports are down to their final month or so.

We have a few reminders for students and parents regarding student absences and attendance. These items were addressed with students at the beginning of the year. The end of the nine weeks is a good time for these kind of reminders. We ask Dragon parents to join us in encouraging 100% attendance unless it is absolutely necessary to be gone. There is a strong correlation between good attendance and success in school and later in life. We also need to remind students and parents that students that say "they are not feeling well" need to come to the office. Students are NOT to contact parents, grandparents or guardians on their own from their cell phones. The office staff will call parents if it is deemed necessary to go home. If the nurse is not available, the office will take temperatures, etc. For students to participate in practice or competition, they need to be to school by 8:25 or have prior permission from the administration. When students are gone for a professional appointment (Dr./Therapist) a note from that Dr's office needs to be given to the office upon arrival for the absence to be excused.

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ATTENDANCE PROCEDURES

1. Contact the school office by 9:00 a.m. if your child is absent. Messages can be left on the school’s answering machine during non-school hours. If your child is not in attendance, and the school has not received parent/guardian notification, the absence may be recorded as unexcused. For the safety of the child, an attempt will be made to contact the parent. If the school initiates this contact, the absence may be recorded as unexcused. As the parent, you have the right to appeal the unexcused absence in writing. Any absence that is verified by a medical or legal note will not count towards truancy reporting. Please bring back medical or legal verification from any medical or legal appointment to the school office.

2. Contact by parent/guardian does not automatically excuse the absence. The building principal has the discretion to excuse or not excuse the absence.

3. When leaving early from school, parents will notify the office in advance so assignments can be given to the child. If advanced notice isn’t given the child may receive zeroes for the missing assignments. One-day notice would be the best, as this would give the teacher(s) time to get the assignments ready. It is the student’s responsibility to sign in and out at the attendance office and ask his/her teachers for the assignments missed.

4. Two consecutive school days will be allowed to make up work the student has missed during a full day excused absence. Special circumstances may justify an administrative exception to this time.

5. A student absent from school may not practice or participate on that day unless:

1. He/she is in attendance by 8:25 am; or

2. Permission is granted by the principal.