Attendance Expectations

Attendance 2020-21 School Year
Posted on 11/04/2020
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Attendance expectations for the 2020-21 School Year
This year it is important that your student is engaging in all of their classes. OSPI requires that schools take daily attendance for all students, and to call families if students are marked absent.

Distance Learning/At Home Learning Attendance
An absence from remote learning is when a student is not participating in planned instructional activities on a scheduled remote learning day.

A student will be marked present if they do any of the following:
1. Engaged in a learning task or activity in Google Classroom or SeeSaw
2. Participate in a Zoom meeting
3. Email or talk on the phone with the teacher, for elementary students this may be a parent/guardian contact

Blue Heron and the High School will take attendance for each period/class on a students schedule each day. Students should check their playlist for instructions on how to check-in with teachers for attendance purposes on at-home learning days.

A students is marked as present of they complete any of the activities any time before midnight.

What to expect
At 5pm families will receive an automated call, email, and text if their student was marked absent for the previous school day.

How do I excuse an absence?
A parent or guardian can excuse an absence by emailing or calling the attendance office at the student's school or sending a note with a student on an at-school learning day. They need to identify the student first and last name, the date of the absence and the reasons for the excused absence. Absences can be excused for a variety of acceptable reasons, more information available here.

What is an excused absence?
As usual, a students absence, from both distance and in-person learning, can be excused for:

1. Student illness, health appointments
2. Family emergency
3. Religious or cultural purposes

See Policy 3122P for a comprehensive list of valid excuses for absences.

Emergency rules specify reasons that a students’ absence may be excused this school year:
1. Absences related to the student’s illness, health condition, or medical appointments due to COVID-19;
2. Absences related to caring for a family member who has an illness, health condition, or medical appointment due to COVID-19;
3. Absences related to the student’s employment or other family obligations during regularly scheduled school hours that are temporarily necessary due to COVID-19 until other arrangements can be made, including placement in a more flexible education program;
4. Absences due to the student’s parent or guardian’s work schedule or other obligations during regularly scheduled school hours, until other arrangements can be made;
5. Absences due to the student’s lack of necessary instructional tools, including internet broadband access or connectivity;
6. Other COVID-19 related circumstances as determined between school and parent/guardian or emancipated youth.

If you have questions, please contact your student's school directly.
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