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Attendance

Our school day is from 7:45 a.m. until 2:15 p.m.

Good attendance is important to success in school.

Parents must call the school office by 8:30 a.m. on the day the student is absent (363-5100).

Voice mail is available after hours.

Upon returning to the school, each student is expected to bring a note explaining the reason for the absence. Notes should be given to the homeroom teacher. Returning to school without a note is an unexcused absence. Excessive unexcused absences wi1l be referred to the Visiting Teacher. Then, students and parents wi1l be referred to Attendance Court.

The Ohio Revised Code 3321.38 states:
"The Compulsory Education Law of the State of Ohio requires that all children, not regularly employed, must remain in school until they are eighteen years of age. In order to be employed, it is necessary for a child to be certificated by the Superintendent of Schools in the school district in which he lives."

Parents: When a child is absent from school in violation of the provisions of this law, the attendance officer shall notify the parent and if the latter fails to cause such child to attend school, he shall be summoned before court, and unless he proves his inability to compel his child to attend, he shall be fined not less than $5, nor more than $20, or he may be required to give bond in the sum of $100, that he wi1l cause his child to remain in school during the term prescribed by law. If the parent fails to pay the fine or furnish the bond, "then said parent, or guardian or other person, shall be imprisoned in the county jail no less than ten days or more than thirty days."

NEW TRUANCY LAW SB 181

Habitual Truancy -- any child of compulsory school age who is absent "Without legitimate excuse for absence from the public school the child is supposed to attend for:

5 or more consecutive school days;
7 or more school days in one month;
or
12 or more school days in one school year

Chronic: Truant -- any child of compulsory school age who is absent "Without legitimate excuse for absence from the public school the child is supposed to attend for:

7 or more consecutive school days;
10 or more school days in one month;
or
15 or more school days in one school year

Failure to Send -- If a parent has failed to send the child to school, the parent may be charged with a failure to send. If a child meets the elements of the habitual truancy offense, and the child is charged with the offense, the parent must be charged with a failure to send. The performance bond has been raised to a maximum of $500 or no more than 70 hours of community service. In addition, the failure to send charge requires a mandatory warning that subsequent truancy charges against the child may result with the subsequent offense of "Contributing to the Unruliness or Delinquency of a minor" which may result in a jail sentence.

A failure to send charge can stand alone
A habitual or chronic charge automatically requires a failure to send charge

VCO (Violation of Court Order)

If a child has a prior adjudication with Juvenile Court and has a subsequent habitual or chronic truancy offenses the school must file a Violation of Court Order instead of the chronic or habitual filing.

Students are responsible for making up missed work due to absences. The work must be made up within a reasonable time. For extended absences, the classroom teacher should be contacted for assignments and arrangements made to pick up materials and books. Each teacher has a phone in the classroom. Twenty- four hour notice is needed to gather work for students. Students are expected to be in their classrooms ready to work when the bell rings at 7:45a.m. If your child is tardy, he/she is required to bring a note from the parents to verify the excuse. Excessive tardiness will be referred to the Visiting Teacher.

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