Tardy/Attendance Policy

            Students in grades 9-12 in a 90-minute block school who are absent from class more than 8 days during a term will not receive credit for the term.

      The principal will appoint an attendance committee to advise him or her whether circumstances for each student who has exceeded the requisite number of days warrant waiver of the no-credit or retention provisions of this policy. The principal will notify the student and his or her parents or guardians concerning the time and place of such hearings and indicate that their presence is encouraged.

     The principal will have the authority to waive the no-credit or retention provisions of the policy before or after a hearing by the committee.

If you are absent, you must get a blue note from Computer Lab 111 prior to 8:00 a.m. the following day.  You will receive an unexcused tardy from your class if you do not have a blue note and you request to leave class to go get one or if the teacher must ask you to go get a blue note.  School policy requires that in order to be admitted to class the day following an absence, that a student must have a blue note documenting the absence. 

If you sign in to school after 8:00 am and it is unexcused, it will be counted as an unexcused tardy to school.

Any time a student comes in after 8 am and leaves before 3 pm, they must sign in or out in the office.  No exceptions.

Teachers have tardy policies for homeroom, 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th periods.  Teachers have the discretion to turn in discipline referrals for excessive tardies to each of these periods.

 The school will send attendance letters to parents of students who accumulate three, six, and ten absences.

Teachers will give a letter to the student after absence three, and will send a letter to parents after absence six.

Tardy Policy 2010-2011

Fred T. Foard High School

1^st Offense:  Verbal Warning

2^nd Offense:  Verbal Warning

3^rd Offense:  Verbal Warning and Letter to Parents

4^th Offense:  Verbal Warning

5^th Offense:  Lunch Detention – If student fails to complete Lunch Detention, one day of ISS will be assigned

6^th Offense:  Verbal Warning and Loss of Driving Privileges

7^th Offense:  Lunch Detention– If student fails to complete Lunch Detention, one day of ISS will be assigned

8^th Offense:  Verbal Warning

9^th Offense and all after:  Lunch Detention – If student fails to complete Lunch Detention, one day of OSS will assigned

Student tardies will be excused with a parent note (as long as the notes do not exceed five per semester) for illness or injury, medical appointments, required court attendance, religious observance, quarantine, or educational opportunity.  Students are not penalized for late buses.  Students arriving on late buses will be given an excused pass to class.  Car trouble, electrical outages, missing the bus, etc. are not included in excused tardies.

 Early Dismissal Policy

It is our goal at Fred T. Foard for every student to experience success.  In order for that to occur, it is vitally important that each student attend each class for the entire class period.  Please review the Early Dismissal Policy that was implemented as of January, 2010. 

Tardies to 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th periods will be recorded and addressed by classroom teachers and may result in an office referral.  Please refer to the Exam Exemption Policy for further consequences of tardies

• Tardies to 2nd, 3rd, and 4th periods are addressed by departmental policy (similar to school policy) and may result in an office referral.
• Teachers will have their tardy policy posted in the room and will go over it at beginning of semester.