Absences
Please notify the school office at 252-9054 before 9:30 AM, any day that your child will not be attending Alki. Please send a note with your child for any planned future absences.
If your child has a fever, you should not send him/her to school. You may contact our school office (or the nurse, if available) if you are not sure about symptoms.
The following District definitions of excused and unexcused absences are for students of all ages:
Excused Absences:
- Unplanned absences are excused when your child's personal illness or injury, or the illness, injury or death of a family member, prevents your child from attending school. The school may require a note from your child's doctor before excusing those absences if your child is absent due to illness or injury for an excessive number of days.
- Planned absences are excused when you submit a request to the principal or assistant principal at least three school days before the start of the planned absence, usually for a family trip of short duration, doctor or dentist appointment, or religious or other special event one time event. The school may require your child to complete missed classroom assignments and/or make another academic assignment for extended planned absences. Long-term absences or a succession of long-term absences may affect whether your child will be promoted. Absences for longer than twenty consecutive school days may result in your child being dropped from school enrollment.
- Absences due to short-term discipline of your child are excused on District attendance records unless your child is under court order to attend school without additional truancies or behavior problems.
Unexcused Absences:
- All other absences are considered unexcused, including absences caused by the student or parent oversleeping, student missing the bus, transportation problems, students needed for babysitting, student job requirement, etc.
- Absences by long term suspended and expelled students for whom space is available in the reentry program, but who do not enroll and attend, are unexcused.
- A parent request to "excuse my child's absence" without a stated reason or with a reason that does not meet the above criteria for excused absences will cause the child's absence to remain unexcused.
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