Absences

• Always bring a note when you return to school to explain your absence. A note must accompany your child upon his/her return to school if the absence is to be excused. Students should also bring notes if they are tardy.
• Excused Absences: student illness, death in the family, religions holidays, or family emergency when student is needed to help with family responsibilities.
• Vacations are unexcused.

Make up Work

Students with an EXCUSED absence shall be provided the opportunity to receive assignments missed during the absence and to make up the work upon their return for the full grade. Make up work must be requested by the student or parent no later than three days after returning to school. The work should be turned in at a mutually agreed time frame between the teacher and the student. The attendance record is not changed when missed work is completed. At the K-12 level, students with UNEXCUSED absences shall not be given the opportunity to make up the work. A suspension is an unexcused absence.

Buses

• Obey the bus drivers instructions
• Remain in your seat on the bus
• Keep your hands, feet, and objects to yourself
• Talk quietly
• Students who live at least 1.25 miles from school may ride the bus
• Bus drivers must approve any requests for additional passengers this must occur a day an advance of the request

A bus driver’s job is an EXTREMELY difficult task. The school makes every effort to support them in their efforts to be effective, responsible, and safe. Bus discipline is handled using progressive discipline. Should a driver bring a child into the office and file a formal complaint, the student is given a warning. Additional trips to the office will result in a gradual loss of bus privileges, in some cases; students may lose the privilege of bus transportation for the remainder of the school year. Please be sure to read MNPS rules for riding the bus with your child, sign, and return the appropriate copy to school.

Early Dismissal

Early dismissals are discouraged. Teachers use every minute of the instructional day and early releases create a disruption for students. No students will be dismissed after 2:30 p.m. Exclusions to this policy include religious training, doctor/dentist visits, guidance sessions, or other activities approved by the principal. Early dismissals for conveniences are strongly discouraged.

Our school cares about the safety of your children. Therefore, children will not be dismissed from their classrooms. All parents and visitors must come to the office to sign a student out of school. Office personnel will then call the appropriate classroom, and have the child dismissed to the office. Students will only be dismissed to adults listed on the student profile form. Anyone picking up a child must show identification.