Early Checkout

EARLY CHECK OUT:

In the event a parent needs to take their child out of school before the end of the school day, the parent should come to the appropriate school office and sign him/her out. Your child will be called to the office at that time. For the safety of our students, parents are not allowed to go directly to a classroom to get their child. We ask that ALL parents abide by this policy. Students will not be checked out after 2:30 p.m. If your child has a medical/dental or any appointments late in the afternoon, please sign him/her out before 2:30 p.m.

Students will NOT be sent to the office for dismissal until the parent is present for check-out. Please do not email teachers requesting that they release students. Please remember that early dismissals are documented just as absences or tardies. We ask that these be kept to minimum.

• If you need to check out your student before 2:30, please send a note (written in ink) with your child. Your child should hold on to the note until it is time to sign out. He/she should present the note to their classroom teacher who will then dismiss them to the office. Please do not call or email the school. • The student should then report to the office and turn the note in to Mrs. Lumpkin (or whomever is working the front desk). She will then call the parent (using contact information on the emergency card or in Infinite Campus) to verify that the student should be signing out. • The student will be marked absent in every class that they missed after signing out. Documentation must be sent in within 3 days for the absence to be marked excused.

Students must sign out through the office. Leaving campus without doing so is considered cutting class and punishable by suspension. This procedure is to not only protect your child but to also help us document who is in and out of the building. Please do not get angry with office personnel for asking you to follow this procedure. If you have questions/concerns, please address an administrator.

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Grades K-5

• Parents arriving after 7:55 will need to park and bring the student into the office.

• A child is considered tardy if he/she is not in class by 8:00 a.m.

• Students signing in after 10:00 a.m. will be considered absent for the day. Students signing out before 1:00 p.m. will be considered absent for the day.

• Students arriving late or leaving early for reasons other than those listed as excused absences will be considered as having an unexcused absence.

o Please see above information regarding unexcused/excused absences. Note: no more than six parent notes (for the year)for absences and/or tardies and early checkouts will be accepted.

o When arriving late, documentation should be given to the office staff upon checking into school. When leaving early, documentation should be given upon return to school.

o Parents must come in the office to sign students in late or sign students out early.

DO NOT go to your child’s classroom.

• Students may not be signed out after 2:30 p.m.

• Students who are repeatedly tardy or

absent to school will be turned over to the Governing Board Attendance

Committee. Grades 6-12

For students in grades 6-12, tardy to school is actually tardy to 1st period.

• Our staff on carpool duty comes in at 7:40 so that they can make it to class on time so the doors to the building on Talon’s Trail will be closed and locked. If you arrive after 7:40, you will need to take your child to the main entrance. They will need to go through the main office and will be counted late in their 1st period class.

• Students tardy to class up until 8:10 a.m.should report directly to their first period teacher. They will be marked tardy.

• Students arriving after 8:10 a.m. will needto sign in with the main office. The student is absent from 1st period.

• Students who sign-out and/or sign-in and miss more than 25 minutes of class are considered absent from their class.

• Students arriving late or leaving early for reasons other than those listed asexcused absences will be considered as having an unexcused absence.

o Please see above information regarding unexcused/excused absences. Note: no more than six parent notes (for the year) for absences and/or tardies and early checkouts will be accepted.

o Documentation for absences/tardies must be provided upon the student’s return to school.

o Parents must come in the office to sign students in late (after 8:10 a.m.) orsign students out early. DO NOT go to your child’s classroom.

• In an effort to stem tardies, students who are repeatedly tardy to class will be assigned to Silent Lunch and or suspended.

See page 14.

• Students who are repeatedly tardy or absent to school

will be turned over to the Governing Board Attendance

Committee.

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