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Attendance Information
Regular attendance plays a key role in the success of each student. Every teacher’s course syllabus outlines the consequences of excessive tardiness or truancies. Except for those students with off-campus privileges, all students must check out through the attendance office before leaving campus during school hours.
ATTENDANCE POLICIES
Regular attendance plays a key role in the success of each student. Every teacher’s course syllabus outlines the consequences of excessive tardiness or truancies. Except for those students with off- campus privileges, all students must check out through the attendance office before leaving campus during school hours.
ABSENCES
If a medical or dental appointment requires the student to be out of school for part of a day, the school must be notified in advance. Before leaving campus, the student must obtain a pass to leave campus from the attendance office.
- Excused absences include: Illness, medical, dental, or optometrist appointments, family funerals, formal religious observances, mandatory court appearances, school instigated suspensions, authorized field trips, or any other absences approved by the administration.
- Unexcused absences include: Verified parental need, family vacations, oversleeping, personal reasons, truancy, and non- parental clearance within 24 hours of absence from school. Other excused absences may be approved in advance at the discretion of the principal.
- Excessive absences: When a student has had 14 absences in the school year for illness, any further absences must be verified by a physician [CUSD Administrative Regulation AR 5113(c)]
NOTE: Tests and homework can be made up for all excused absences. Make-ups for unexcused absences are at the individual teacher’s discretion.
TARDIES
Tardy counts begin with the start of each semester. CHS has developed the following policy for dealing with period-by-period tardiness:
- On the first tardy for an individual class:
- Teacher confers with the student
- On the second tardy for an individual class:
- Teacher confers with the student
- Teacher may contact the parent via phone or email.
- On the third tardy for an individual class:
- Student receives a written warning from administration
- Letter mailed home to parent with number of tardies
- On the fourth tardy for an individual class
- Student is referred to the assistant principal.
- After school detention will be assigned
- Letter mailed home to parents with number of tardies
Continuing tardiness will result in further progressive disciplinary action which may include, but is not limited to:
- further detention will be assigned
- meeting with assistant principal, parent and student
- suspended off campus pass
- restricted attendance to after school campus sports and/or activities
- referral to district attorney
For questions about attendance, please contact Sara Scanlan, attendance secretary, sscanlan@carmelunified.org or (831) 624-1821 ext. 2781