Attendance
Attendance
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Attendance
Regular attendance is essential to learning and academic success. We encourage parents and students to make regular attendance a priority and to minimize interruptions in student attendance, wherever possible.
Types of Absences:
- Excused: Absences due to illness, doctor or dental appointment, family emergency-state the emergency and death in the immediate family (1 day if service is in California or 3 if service is out of state.
- Unexcused: Absences that will create a truancy: (still call to let us know if this is your situation so we can document that you notified the school) flat tires, parent/siblings sick, out of town, running out of gas, missing the bus, oversleeping etc. Absences due to suspension from school will be considered unexcused absences.
Excused Absence(s) Procedures
All students have three (3) school days to clear their absence(s) for the school attendance records, beginning on the day they return to school. Absences not cleared by will become unexcused absences. A student who accumulates three days of unexcused absences is considered a truant by the State of California.
- Parents have many ways to clear an absence : Leave name of student, date of absence and reason for absence.
- Call 530-662-1784 Option 3
- Text 530-867-9313
- Email: Laura.Iniguez@wjusd.org
- Note from Parent: Note should be signed by parent.
- Doctors note: note should have the date the student was seeing by the doctor.
- Parent square
- Come to the office to let us know of an absence
Early Dismissal/ "Leave of Grounds"
If your student has a medical or other appointment that requires to be released from school early, please follow the process listed below:
- All parents need to sign out their student in the office before leaving campus. Please bring your identification to sign your students out.
- Students are not allowed to leave campus during school hours by themselves.
- Students are called out at the time parent arrives to sign them out.
Because attendance is so important for student success in school, Rhoda Maxwell Elementary School discourages routine medical or dental appointments made during school hours.
Information about Tardiness
Please be aware that tardiness is unacceptable for a number of reasons:
- Tardiness affects your child's ability to be successful in his/her schoolwork. The total number of missed instructional minutes can add up very quickly.
- Tardiness has a negative impact on your child and his/her teacher to get him/her "caught up" with what was missed.
- Tardiness has a huge negative impact on other students who arrive on time, and who are then distracted while your child gets settled upon his/her arrival.
- Tardiness can be considered defiance of the school's attendance policy and can result in truancy.
We do recognize that there may be situations that arise occasionally that may cause students to be late for school. If you feel you have extenuating circumstances that prevent you from bringing your child to school on time, please let us know. Otherwise, the school's expectation will be that your child arrive on time, each day. The morning bell rings at 8:15am.
