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Attendance

Attendance Policy

Consistent attendance is important to a student’s educational success. Parents, we ask that you help in monitoring and encouraging consistent attendance of your child. The Weber County School District Attendance/Citizenship Policy will be followed. Students are expected to be in school each day unless properly excused by their parents, administrator or teacher. A student not properly excused will be considered truant.

Parents must call the school within 3 days of any absence. Written excuses will not be accepted. Please call the 24-hour voicemail line at 801-452-4001, state your child's name, grade, reason for absence, and date of absence. If the absence is not for the full day, please indicate the time or class periods missed.

If a parent or guardian needs to reach the Attendance Office during school hours for reasons other than to excuse an absence, please leave a message on the voicemail line. The line is checked consistently throughout the school day and you will either receive a call back and/or your student will be contacted as per your request. Once again, state your student's name, grade, your name, phone number, and a brief message. Please understand that because of the volume of phone calls and in-person assistance, attendance business during the school day is handled through the voicemail line. You will still receive immediate attention to your message and requests.

Parent excused absences will count as one of the allowed 5 absences per term and are not considered school-excused absences. Special arrangements must be made in the case of prolonged or prearranged absences. Students can receive a medically excused absence that does not count toward the allowed absences with a doctor/dentist note. Doctor's notes should be dated and submitted within 3 days of the absence. If a surgery or extended illness requires the student to miss multiple days, a Pre-Arranged Absence form can be obtained from the Attendance Office or a counselor can determine if the student is eligible for Home and Hospital tutor (if two weeks or more will be missed).

ABSENCE

Students will be marked absent from class when not in attendance or if they arrive to class 15 or more minutes late. Five or more absences (either excused or unexcused) in any class during a quarter will result in a loss of .25 unit of attendance credit in each class affected.

TARDIES

Students who are tardy 5 or more times in any class during any quarter will result in a loss of .25 unit of attendance credit in each class affected.

TRUANCY

A truancy is an unexcused absence without parent or teacher/administrative permission. A student may be marked truant for leaving school or class without permission or not checking out prior to leaving school grounds. Unexcused absences not cleared by a parent or guardian may also be marked as truancies. Two or more truancies during any quarter will result in a loss of .25 unit of attendance credit in each class affected.

PREARRANGED ABSENCES

If parents request to have their student excused from school for reasons other than illness or family emergencies, arrangements must be made in advance. Students may pick up and complete a Prearranged Absence form. This form must be signed by all teachers and returned to the Attendance Office prior to absences. Prearranged absences must be a minimum of three days in duration and will not count against attendance credit.

SCHOOL EXCUSED ABSENCE

School sponsored activities that require students to be absent from class will be school excused and not count as an absence. It is the students' responsibility to ask their teachers for any work missed for a school excused absence.

STUDENT CHECK-IN

Students arriving more than 15 minutes late to any class must check-in at the Attendance Office. Students arriving less than 15 minutes late to any class should go directly to class.

STUDENT CHECK-OUT

Any time a student needs to leave school before the end of the school day, the student must be checked out at the Attendance Office. The school is required by law to have a responsible person approve student check out. Therefore, parents should notify the school prior the check-out.

  • Students who leave campus without proper check-out will be marked truant.
  • Students who are ill, will be checked into the sickroom if a parent or designated emergency contact cannot be reached.

 

Attendance Credit Make-Up

All attendance credit make-up must be pre-approved by Mr. Cole Price, Attendance Coordinator.

In the Weber School District, all attendance credit loss over .75 must be made up before graduation and to meet eligibility requirements for athletics, team events, student government, and all other activities in which students represent any district High School. Students who need to make up attendance credit loss (more than .75 overall credit loss), are required to accomplish community service requirements and pay a fine.

Every 10 hours of community service (off campus) worked will reinstate .25 attendance credit. Community service credit will be awarded after necessary fines are paid to the bookkeeper. A $15 fine is charged per .25 attendance credit loss, with a maximum limit of $90 fine for a student’s high school career. The receipt for payment of these fines must be attached to the community service credit sheet/contract obtained from the school attendance coordinator. Printed guidelines for make-up are available from Mr. Price.

Community service hours and other attendance recovery options can only be made up at pre-approved sites and must be pre-approved by Mr. Price. Non-approved attendance hours will not be accepted. Students who have to make-up attendance credit cannot make up more than 200 actual hours from one person or approved organization. Teachers cannot give more than 50 hours of make-up credit, per student, per school year.

  • The attendance coordinator may contact any person/organization associated with attendance credit make-up to verify a student’s performance and/or hours worked.
  • Community service hours worked at a non-approved site will not count toward attendance credit make-up. Hours worked must be on-site, in the presence of the approved supervisor, and work cannot be taken home to complete.
  • Approved supervisors cannot be related to the student nor have a personal connection to the student/family.
  • Students may not miss any class time to make up hours. If this is the case, the hours worked while the student was missing class will not be counted.
  • Only 100 hours will be accepted at any one site/organization.
  • Students may not receive pay or other benefits for hours worked.
  • Organizations must be non-profit and community based.
  • Hours worked must be documented on the school’s community service credit sheet/contract and signed by the pre-approved supervisor.
  • All work completed for a teacher or school must be turned in during the quarter the work is completed.
  • Students who have to make-up attendance credit cannot make up more than 200 actual hours from one person or organization. Teachers cannot give more than 50 hours of make-up credit, per student, per school year.

ATTENDANCE RECOVERY OPTIONS

Parent Teacher Conferences:

Pre-approved from the attendance coordinator. Students may earn .25 for attending with parent/guardian. Form must be picked up from the office, signed by all teachers at the conference, and returned to the main office the day of conferences. Student and parent/guardian must attend the conference together.

Attendance Credit Recovery Class:

Offered 4 times per year. The class will consist of 15 total hours and will restore up to 1.50 of attendance credit loss. This class may be taken two times per school year.

Clean Quarter:

A student attending one quarter without losing attendance credit for absences/tardies in any class may restore one full previous quarter of attendance credit loss (.25). This make up option may be used more than once. If you are a SENIOR, the clean quarter does not apply during the 4th quarter. There is no limit to the amount of “clean quarters” that can be earned. The student cannot lose any attendance credit during the quarter of the contract (no more than 4 absences or 4 tardies in any class during the quarter) to receive the Clean Quarter credit. Once the clean quarter form has been signed by the student’s administrator, it must be turned in to the attendance office.

School Service Hours:

This option allows students with attendance issues to “give back” to the school/district. These activities include but are not limited to cleanup after games/activities, working on school grounds under the supervision of custodians, working with individual teachers, coaches, etc. Hours completed at the school are doubled. Must be pre-approved
through Mr. Price.