Attendance Reminders

 

Students are expected to attend school regularly and be on time for classes in order to benefit from the instructional program and to develop habits of punctuality responsibility and self-discipline. Attendance is taken at 9:00. Your child must be in attendance at this time to be counted present.

Parents please call the attendance clerk every day your child is absent. You may also e-mail the attendance clerk at koathv@lisd.net to report the absence. The school has an automated phone system where you can register an absence between 7:00 pm and 7:30 am. Please leave your child’s name, grade, teacher’s name and the reason for the absence. The school will contact the parents when a child is absent and the absence was not reported.

  • A written explanation of absence to the office is required when your child returns to school. Failure to do so will result in the absence being recorded as unexcused.
  • School Board Policy lists the following as the only reasons for excused absence: personal illness, death in the family, quarantine, weather and road conditions making transportation to school dangerous, or a religious holy day when it is a tenet of your faith. There may be extenuating circumstances, which will result in an excused absence with PRIOR APPROVAL from the principal.
  • A doctor’s note may be required for an extended illness. Any child absent 3 or more days MUST HAVE a note from the doctor.
  • Students being seen by a health care professional and attending school any part of the day ARE NOT COUNTED ABSENT WITH A NOTE FROM THE DOCTOR.

 

When your child is absent from school, please notify the office by 8:00 am. If you need makeup work please ask the office to let the teacher know and missed work can be picked up in the office at the end of the school day or sent home with another child, if requested.