Attendance Office: 842-2918
If student
is out ill, please call (no notes please) the Attendance
Office as early as possible to let me know. The Attendance number
is good 24 hours a day.
If your student
must leave during the day, you must call to notify the
Attendance Office prior to the departure time. You can call the
night before and leave a message. This will give your student
time to pick up a green slip in the morning. Students must present
the slip to the teacher prior to leaving class. Let me know if
your student will return to school after an appointment.
To pre-arrange
for an excused absence, please fill out the Pre-Arranged
Absence Request.
Attendance Guidelines
Attending Bainbridge High School
is a right and responsibility of all students. State Law and School
Bard Regulations require daily attendance. Mandatory attendance
exists in all classes. The family and the student both hold full
responsibility for attendance. Research states the first minutes
of a class period are among the most important. Therefore, it
is critically important that students arrive to class on time.
A single tardy of 10 minutes or more be counted as an unexcused
absence. Failure to attend class may result in loss of credit,
failure, or removal from class and/or school. State law requires
referral to juvenile court for excessive absences.
In order to excuse an absence, we
ask that a parent or guardian contact the school by telephone
each day a student is absent. Please call our Attendance
Office at 842-2918, preferably by 10:00 A.M. on the morning your
student must be absent from school.
Failure to contact the Attendance
Office to excuse an absence within 2 days will cause the absence
to remain listed as unexcused. We will attempt to notify parents
whenever a student has an unexcused absence, be it a truancy or
failure to meet the two-day excuse deadline. Parents are also
invited to call the Attendance Office to receive information about
student attendance.
Upon the fourth (4)
unexcused within a semester, the student may be dropped from the
class(es) with a failing grade. Students truant from class will
face disciplinary/corrective action.
Due to the importance of class attendance
teachers will individually contact a student when he/she has accumulated
4 days of absence – excused or unexcused – and the
student will initial the absence report form.
At the 7th absence, a student’s
grade likely will be affected. Once a student has reached seven
absences the teacher, associate principal and/or attendance office
will make a parent contact.
At the 11th absence from a semester
class, the student may be dropped from the class rolls with loss
of credit. A letter will be sent home to the student and parent
indicating a change in schedule due to non-attendance.
Eighteen-year Old Excused Absences
Students eighteen
years of age and older are allowed by law to sign their own excuses
for absences. According to district procedure, excused absences
are considered to be for illness, medical appointments, or court
appointments only.
Eighteen-year-old students wishing to excuse their own
absences will be required to fill out a special form available
in the Attendance Office. This requires the student to
verify in writing the reasons and authenticity of the absence.
If the reason for the absence is not considered excused according
to policy definition or if it is found that the reason listed
was not authentic, the absence will be considered unexcused and
appropriate disciplinary action will be taken.
