Galilee Academy Attendance Policy

 

Student attendance remains the number one factor affecting the overall achievement of students. Because teaching students the discipline that they need in order to survive in the business world is one of our main jobs, then students must understand early in their high school career, the consequence for poor attendance. In fact, good attendance is the number one issue that their private sector identifies as making a good employee. The following policies will become site procedures:

 

Note or Phone Call must clear absences the day of return. Students will be required to bring a note explaining the reason for each absence on the day that they return to school. Notes must be taken to the attendance office before a student may return to a missed class. The student will then be given a re-admit slip indicating whether the absence is excused or not excused.

 

If the student does not bring a note, the parent may call to excuse the absence poor to the beginning of school that day.

 

1. Any student returning without a note or parent phone call will be issued a cut for that absence.
2. When a student receives a second cut, whether for a period or a full-day cut, that student will receive a referral to an administrator. 
3. A total of seven unexcused absences will result in the student receiving an "F' Attendance grade and no credit for the class for the duration of the semester.
4. Students who establish a pattern of excessive absenteeism may be expelled from Galilee Academy. 
5. A student is allowed fifteen days of absence due to illness in a term. Additional illness must be cleared by a physician.