Attendance
Regular attendance is essential
to the learning process. You cannot expect to succeed if you do not participate in the daily activity of
the class. While students can make up some work missed due to absence, there is no way to recapture or
reproduce classroom activities. According to district policy, a student who misses more than 9 days in
any one semester may be required to meet with the attendance committee. Students who do no attend school
90% or more during the school year will have their progress and promotion status reviewed by an attendance committee.
If
your student will be absent, please call the office as soon as possible to notify the administration. If
you know beforehand that your student will be absent, please send a note to school for us, so that we may try to prepare the
work to do prior to the absence, or for the student to take home to complete.
Tardies
Students are expected to be in
their assigned seat and ready to begin work when the final bell rings. It is disruptive to the classroom
and learning environment to have interruptions from students who come late when class has begun. We are
very strict when it comes to being on time, and will not let students slide into class unnoticed. Three
tardies will count as one absence, and these could add up quickly. Their tardies will be accounted for,
so PLEASE, as a parent, get your child to school on time.
Late Work
Assignments that are due
need to be placed in the in-box on the desk each morning before the tardy bell. Students go directly to
band at that time, and work is graded. Work that is not handed in at this time will be considered late,
and will be marked down 25%. Students are given until the next morning to complete and turn in the assignment
for credit.
Reading Homework
Each student will be expected to read for at least 20 minutes
each evening. It is the student’s responsibility to record in their agenda what they read and how
much time was spent reading nightly. Parents are required to review and sign this reading log to be turned
in each Monday morning for 20% of the reading grade.
