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  • Attendance Policy - Procedures

    Carolina Forest High School
    Attendance Procedures for Students
    Hours of Operation
    The attendance office will be open from 745am to 345pm.

     

    Attendance Policies

    South Carolina state law requires that all children attend school regularly beginning with the school year in which the child is five years of age before September 1st until the child attains his/ her 17th birthday or graduates from high school. After 3 consecutive, unlawful, absent days or accumulating 5 unlawful absences, a student is considered truant and will be reported to the district solicitor’s office or be put on an Attendance Intervention Plan.

     

     Students Arriving Late                       

    Students arriving on campus before 9:05am should report directly to class. Students arriving on campus after 9:05am are to report directly to the attendance office to sign in. Failure   to   sign   in   after 9:05am will result in a disciplinary infraction and an assignment of ISS. A pass will be issued by the attendance clerk to enter class. Students who arrive on campus between classes still should report to the attendance office to sign in. Students who miss more than 45 minutes of a class will be considered absent. Parents of students who arrive after 9:05am will be called.

     

    Early Dismissal by Parent Request

    Students requiring early dismissal should bring a signed note from their parents to the attendance office in order to obtain an early dismissal pass. All requests are to be in the attendance office prior to 8:15am so that they may be verified. The note must have a signature and phone number at which the parent may be contacted. If the note cannot be verified by phone the student will not be allowed to leave. CFHS will not call classrooms, unless it is an emergency; therefore, the student must have a pass to get out of class. Students who do not bring a note for a pre-arranged medical or legal appointment must remain in class. Failure to sign out in the attendance office will result in disciplinary action.

     

    Procedures to Follow After an Absence

    After an absence, students are to report to the attendance office before 8:15am with a lawful (medical, legal or obituary or prayer card) note to excuse their absence.   Lawful notes must be submitted to the attendance office within three days of an absence. All medical notes will be verified. Submitting an altered or forged note will result school suspension and the risk of legal charges from the medical facility.

    Don’t Allow Your Student to Become Truant

    Unexcused absences include but are not limited to:

    a. absences of a student without the knowledge of his or her parents, or
    b. absences of a student without acceptable cause with the knowledge of his or her parents. (See  description below.)

     

    What is Truant?

    A child ages 6 to 16 years meets the definition of a truant when the child has three consecutive unexcused absences or a total of five unexcused absences per school year.

    Explanation of Attendance Codes

    The following codes do not count in the totals for denial of credit due to excessive absences:

     

    Code                Explanation

    (SC – MED)  Medical/ Dental/ Nurse sent home (Must have a doctor’s note and /or a nurse’s  note.) 

    (SC – BRV)    Bereavement/ Funeral (Note from funeral home, copy of newspaper announcement indicating relationship between student and deceased or copy of service bulletin/ memory card must be turned in and filed with attendance office.)  

    (SC – LEG)   Court/ Legal (Legal court paper stating when and where the student appeared in court. A traffic ticket or summons is unacceptable.)

                (SC – FT)        Field Trip/ School sponsored activity (Teacher will submit attendance roster.)

    (SC – ONST)   Guidance/ Administration (Student is with a guidance counselor/ administrator or is involved in school wide testing.)

                (SC – REL)     Religious holiday (Must be an approved religious holiday through the district office.)

                (SC – REC)    Saturday School (Attendance makeup. Applied only to last day missed. Must be made up minute for minute.

                (SC – ISS)     In-School Suspension

    (SC – OSS)   Out of school suspension


    The following codes count in the totals for denial of credit due to excessive absences:

     

     

    Code                        Explanation

    (SC – UTRD)      Truancy/ Cutting class or school.

    (SC – UNEX)      Unverified (No lawful documentation received.)

    (SC – UTRD)      Unexcused tardy (Tardies are an attendance issue.)


     

    For further information, see Horry County School’s Parent Student Handbook.

     
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