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What you need to know about missing school:
- Attendance is an important life skill that will help your child graduate high school, graduate college, and/or keep a job.
- Missing 10% or 18 days of the school year can drastically affect a student’s academic success.
- Absenteeism in the first month of school can predict poor attendance throughout the school year.
- Children who were chronically absent in kindergarten and first grade are far less likely to read at grade level by the time they are in third grade, putting them behind their peers.
- The academic impact of missing that much school is the same whether the absences are excused or unexcused.
- By 9th grade, regular attendance rates are a better predictor of graduation than 8th-grade test scores.
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In addition:
The parent/guardian may excuse a student for not more than ten (10) days in the school year. The ten days include excused absences due to illness.
A student will be considered absent for a full day if he is gone more than two-thirds of a school day or a combination of excused absences cumulating to more than two-thirds of a day.
Families are encouraged to take vacations during summer break, the Holiday break, or Spring break. Please contact your child's school for specific dates.
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