Tardiness
Revised Tardies Policy in place of tardies section on page 28 of Student Handbook
January 2010
Effective 4th Quarter beginning March 20, 2010
- A student is marked tardy if he/she is not in the classroom when the tardy bell rings.
- Tardies are recorded on a daily basis throughout junior and senior high school.
- A student tardy fifteen minutes or more to a class is considered absent and will receive an unexcused absence in that class.
- When three tardies are reached, parents will receive a written notification and email. A student may accrue five tardies in a nine-week period before a twenty-minute detention will be issued. Every tardy accrued thereafter will result in an additional twenty minute detention. Each nine-week period will begin with a clean slate for tardies. Accumulated detentions resulting from tardies must still be served.
- 3rd tardy – student and parent will be notified. (student and parent signature required)
- 5th tardy – student and parents will be notified. (students and parent signature required)
- 6th and subsequent tardies will serve 20 minutes detention for each tardy accrued.
- Detentions will be served during the week they are assigned, if possible, and no later than the following week. If detention is not served by the second week, 20 minutes will be added for each week not served.
- If a student arrives at school between 8:30-8:45 A.M., he or she must go to the school office for a tardy slip before reporting to class; otherwise he or she will be counted absent for first period.
- If a student has a doctor, dentist or orthodontist appointment, they must go to the office with an excuse from the doctor and the office would send the student with the excuse to class and it would be enter as M (late because of doctor appointment) instead of a tardy.