Attendance

 

If your student is absent, you need to call the attendance line at 335-4425 - Extension 206 to excuse. You can also send a letter with your student or an email to [email protected]

 

Absences not cleared by families become cuts.  Cuts are the source of detentions and truancy letters.

Families can retroactively excuse absences.  However, the school can ask for a doctor's note if there are excessive absences.

 

Finally, if an absence that becomes a cut is not excused within 3 days of the cut, the family can excuse the absence, but teachers do not have to take work from that day.

There are of course, circumstances that would allow the work - such as emergency situations or extensions written into an IEP or 504 document.

 

The only recognized reasons to be absent are illness, quarantine, medical or dental services, funeral, jury duty, appearance in court, or a religious or cultural ceremony or event.

 

These parameters are set forth by California State Education policies. 

 

The bottom line is students need to be at school.  A comprehensive High School is not a work-from-home job.  Students need to show up.