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Attendance Philosophy
At LCCS, we view every day as an essential learning opportunity. Therefore, we expect excellent attendance of all of our students. Student attendance becomes a pattern and missing school regularly not only is detrimental to a child’s learning, but can create poor learning habits. A child is considered absent when he/she is not in school.

We also believe that a child is sick and cannot operate at school or has a communicable illness, that it may be best for the child to stay at home to rest and recover.

Students are required to make up any and all work missed during their absence. Students are responsible for contacting teachers for making up work missed during any absence, regardless of the reason. In order to participate in any extra-curricular after school or evening activity, students must be present at school the entire day, and may not leave school before the regular dismissal time without prior approval of an administrator.

Excused Absences
Excused absences are absences where a student is too ill to report to school or has a medical, legal, dental appointment or a death in the family. All absences require appropriate documentation, i.e. note from home, a note from a doctor or medical facility, court documents, etc. If appropriate documentation is not provided, the absence will be considered unexcused (see below).

A parent or caring adult must notify the school the same day of absence by telephone, letter, fax, e-mail, or in person. Please do your best to inform of us an absence by 8:30 a.m. If the school is not notified and the student does not report to school the next day with a note, the absence will be considered unexcused (see below).

If a child exceeds ten excused absences, the school will require a conference between parent, student, and administration to devise an action plan for ensuring the child does not fall behind in school.

The school office should be informed promptly if your child has a communicable disease so that we can notify other parents, if necessary.

Unexcused Absences
There will be a limit to the number of unexcused absences allowed. Consequences for unexcused absences are detailed below.

Tardy Policy
School begins at 8:30 a.m. each day. All students are expected to arrive at school on-time. A student is considered tardy if he or she is late to school (after 8:30 a.m.) or class (ask for daily schedule). A student must report to the office if he or she is late for school.

Tardiness is only excused if a student has a medical, dental, legal appointment or there has been a death in the family. All excused tardies require appropriate documentation.

There will be a limit to the number of unexcused tardies allowed.