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LK Seaman Sixth and Seventh Grade Language Arts 2009-2010 |
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Attendance Policy
On a block schedule, every day
your child is absent from class, he or she is marked absent twice. In other
words, one absence equals two absences on block schedule days because each
class is double time.
When your child is absent, it is very
important for you to give your child a note to take to the attendance office
upon his or her return. The person in charge of attendance is named Ms.
McEady, and she will issue your child a note called an admit. Your child takes
the note to all of the teachers whose classes he or she missed. The admit
tells whether the absence is excused or not. This is very important because
the statute states " Ten unexcused absences may result in the withholding of
credit." What this means is, for every absence your child has, and he or she
fails to bring in a note to excuse the absence, he or she can be held back.
Now we all know that sometimes students have
unexcused absences because they forget to bring the notes to excuse them.
Please remind them to take the note to the attendance office between 8:30 and
8:50 a.m. This is not a Richmond Heights Policy; this is a law.
I would never want any child to lose credit
due to absences when a note could have cleared up the situation quite easily.
As for make-up work, when your child is
absent, I put together his or her work for him or her for when he or she
returns, and your child signs for this make-up work. I expect the work within
a reasonable amount of time. In my language arts class, a reasonable amount of
time is defined as two days for every one time absent. If a child is absent
twice, he or she has four days to make up the work, etc.
If you would like to discuss this further, please feel free to contact me.
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