KENWOOD K-8 CENTER

“Home of the Cougars”

 

ATTENDANCE POLICY

Students’ class attendance and academic performance are mutually integrated. In an effort to provide a positive educational program, Kenwood K-8 Center has implemented the following attendance/tardy procedures in accordance with School Board Rule 6Gx13-5a-I.041, Student Attendance:

            • Students who are absent must bring a note to the Homeroom Teacher, within 48 hours after they return from their absence(s).

            • The note should include the students’ name, student ID#, the date(s) of the absence, the reason for the absence, and a parent signature.

            • After ten (10) absences within the school year, each student will be required to have a note from a doctor, hospital, court, etc.

            • A student accumulating five (5) or more unexcused absences for a semester course or ten (10) unexcused absences for an annual course will be subject to the withholding of final passing grades, pending a student requested administrative screening and/or review committee.

 

The following are considered excused absences:

·         Illness of student

·         Medical appointment

·         Death in family

·         Observance of religious holiday or service

·         School-sponsored activity

·         Other individual student absences beyond the control of the parent as approved by the principal.

Ø      ALL OTHER ABSENCES ARE UNEXCUSED

 

Students granted an excused absence have the right to make up all class work within a reasonable length of time, to be determined by the teacher. It is the student’s responsibility to request work from his/her teacher upon returning to class. Unexcused absences do not require that the teacher provide make-up work for the student.