ATTENDANCE

Regular attendance and punctuality are important throughout a student’s entire school career. Good attendance habits formed in the early years are fundamental in developing a sense of responsibility and in steady scholastic progress. Such habits will prove invaluable throughout life.

The ONLY legal excuses for absence or tardiness allowed under the Education Law of Wisconsin State are: sickness or death in family (3 days maximum), impassable roads or weather making travel unsafe, religious observance, school-supervised trips, and required presence in court. Please try to schedule doctor and dental appointments for after school hours.

Absences and tardies are entered on the student’s permanent attendance record. If an absence or tardy is to be excused the student must bring a written excuse from home on the day they return to school. Written excuses should be thorough and specific.

Excessive excused absences (more than 5 days in any quarter) will result in the student being brought up for review.

When a student has been tardy three times, it will be recorded as one absence. Any student who accumulates more then 15 unexcused absences in two consecutive quarters will jeopardize their continued enrollment and their grade/credit in the class (please refer to the student/parent contract, p.26). When a student is absent for more than three days in a row without notification from a parent/guardian the school can call social services.

Grade 7 – 10 Attendance Policy:
Regular attendance and punctuality are important throughout a student’s entire school career. Good attendance habits formed in the early years are fundamental in developing a sense of responsibility and in steady scholastic progress. Such habits will prove invaluable throughout life.

All students who are in the departmentalized grades are responsible for getting to class on time. Students are to refer to their handbook and contract for areas that they will be held accountable for.

Students will be given a passing time to get to class. Students must be on time and in their seats at the beginning of each class as to not be marked with an unexcused tardy. 3 unexcused tardies in a quarter will result in a detention. Each subsequent tardy will result in a detention thereafter.
Students who are 5 minutes or more late to class will be considered truant. The first offense will result in a detention. The 2nd and subsequent offenses will be dealt with on an individual basis.