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ABSENCES
- Always bring a note when you return to school to explain your absence. A note must accompany your child upon his/her return to school if the absence is to be excused.
- Excused Absences: student illness, death in the family, religious holidays, or family emergency when student is needed to help with family responsibilities
- Vacations are unexcused. Teachers are not required to give make-up work.
Regular attendance is extremely important! Please make every effort to have your child at school each day. If a student has five or more unexcused absences, a referral will be made to the Metro Schools Attendance Office or to the Attendance Review Board, an arm of the Metropolitan Nashville/Davidson County Juvenile Court.
MAKE UP WORK
Students with an EXCUSED absence shall be provided the opportunity to receive assignments missed during the absence and to make up the work upon their return for the full grade. Make up work must be requested by the student or parent no later than three days after returning to school. The work should be turned in at a mutually agreed time frame between the teacher and the student. The attendance record is not changed when missed work is completed. At the K-12 level, students with UNEXCUSED absences shall not be given the opportunity to make up the work. A suspension is an unexcused absence.
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