Quincy Senior High Attendance Policy for 2007-2008

Improved attendance is a major goal for Quincy Senior High School because it means students should learn more and get better grades. The efforts of the past school year on the part of students, parents and school staff yielded a decrease in absences from 9.3% in 2006 to 7.3% in 2007. In actual days this means that the average student missed 16.3 days in 2006 and 12.8 days in 2007. We are very happy about this trend, but we know we can do better. Even our current improved record wouldn’t be acceptable to employers.

Poor attendance affects learning and earned grades the most for those students who miss 20 days or more during the school year. With this in mind, our attendance policy in 2007-2008 insists that students attend class a given number of days before credit in the course is allowed. Our faculty feels strongly that students who miss class excessively miss so much content that it is very difficult to make up outside class.

When a student reaches 12 class absences in a semester at Quincy Senior High, we believe that too much class time has been missed to justify granting credit for the course. When a student has 12 absences or more, his or her grade will become ‘incomplete’. This means that credit is suspended until certain requirements are met. To change this ‘incomplete’ to a credit-bearing grade will require much responsibility on the student’s part to change the attendance pattern and meet other obligations set by the school, students, and parents.

Of course, there will be some special circumstances where exceptions will need to be made in the interest of fairness. The Illinois School Code, in Section 12262b-1, gives school officials the right to excuse a student temporarily. Within the guidelines of the school code, this policy will be implemented fairly for students who have medical excuses from a doctor and other extenuating circumstances which contribute to absences which can’t be avoided.

The following reasons for absences are included in the 12 absence limit. These are classified as excused absences as far as makeup work is concerned. Most students should miss less than 6 days a year for theses reasons:

1. Illness of the student.

2. Serious illness in the family.

3. Death in the family.

4. Approved emergency needs at home.

5. Absences which have been arranged by parents prior to the student’s absence.

Tardiness or being late to class, is also a bad habit for students to develop. When a student is tardy three times, it will be counted as a one-day absence.

Skipping classes or being unexcused is a more serious type of absence. Theses absences count more heavily toward the 12-day limit/ each class absence for skipping or unexcused reason counts the same as 3 days excused absence toward the limit of 12.

Task 1. Is this text written in British English or American English? Prove your opinion using the examples from the text.

Task 2. Find in the text English equivalents of the following Russian words and expressions:

Оценка/ отметка; пропускать занятия (по какой-либо причине); прогуливать занятия; опаздывать на занятия; опоздание; пропуск по уважительным причинам; отработка (пропущенных занятий); плохая посещаемость; поставить зачет.

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