Excessive Absence Policy HCA believes that classroom instruction plays a vital role in a student’s education and that one can never compensate for absence from school. Therefore, students must meet certain attendance standards to receive credit for a class. Excessive absences bring into question the credibility of a student’s academic experience. For this reason, excessive absences will threaten a student’s promotion and/or credit for classes. Therefore, the following will apply in the case of excessive student absences: ● Any student who exceeds 14 absences of any kind per semester – excused or unexcused – will not receive credit for the class. ● A long-term illness exemption may be approved via a written appeal form the parents that includes a doctor’s signed notice indicating that the student is unable to be in school. ● School-sponsored events (e.g., field trips or athletic competitions) will not be treated as absences. Sick Policy A student should not go to school if they have: A fever over 100.4° Fahrenheit (F) or 38° Celsius (C) – Your child can return to school after they've been fever-free for 24 hours without fever reducing medicine. Students who have been absent from school due to an illness must be present for a half day in order to participate in class parties, field trips, athletic events or other school events that take place on that day or that evening. Unexcused Absences (UA): ● When a parent fails to contact the school office to excuse his/her students’ absence, it is considered an unexcused absence. ● Students that fail to show up to class during the day are skipping class, and it is considered an unexcused absence. ● Consequence: for each class in which a student receives an unexcused absence they will be required to serve a morning detention, and the student will get a zero for all daily work for that day. Example: if a student received an unexcused absence for all four of their morning class periods, they would receive four detentions.
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