Attendance
To stay on track for graduation, make sure to miss no more than ____ days of school a year!
9
The two types of absences
Verified and unverified
How many absences do you need to be removed from a semester course?
12
What is an attendance appeal?
Remove an absence from your calendar
Name all 4 grades.
Attendance is an important life skill that will help you in the real world, such as ___________________________________
Maintaining a job or attending college
An unverified absence is also known as a
How many absences do you need to be removed from a full year course?
21
For a semester course, your parents will receive letters when you reach:
_ Unexcused Absences
_ Unexcused Absences
3 Unexcused Absences
6 Unexcused Absences
The name of the English teacher who recently transferred from the middle school to Fort Lee High School
Ms. Yoon
Frequent absences can be a sign that a student is? (At least 3 signs)
Losing interest in school, struggling with school work, dealing with a bully, or facing some other difficulty.
How many minutes or more late to period 1 is an absence?
20 minutes
What will happen if you lose credit for a course?
You will be placed into a study hall
For a full-year course, your parents will receive letters when you reach:
_ Unexcused Absences
_ Unexcused Absences
_ Unexcused Absences
_ Unexcused Absences
3 Unexcused Absences
6 Unexcused Absences
10 Unexcused Absences
15 Unexcused Absences
The name of the administrator you must contact to appeal
Mr. Finizio
____________________________________________ found that half the students who missed two to four days in September went on to be chronically absent for the year.
Baltimore Education Research Consortium
Full Year = _ absence(s)
Semester = _ absence(s)
3 tardies = _ absence(s)
18, 9, 1
How can you recover credits for a class? (At least 2)
1. After school credit recovery sessions
2. Saturday credit recovery sessions
3. Students assigned make-up work caused by missed classes
The amount of unexcused absences for your parents to receive a loss of credit letter for a full-year course and a semester course.
18 for full-year
8 for semester
The year Fort Lee High School was established in
1916
The Fort Lee High School attendance office phone number
201-585-4675 Ext: 6503
What is considered an excused absence? (Name at least 8 out of the 10)
1. Illness
2. Attendance in court
3. Suspension
4. Death in family
5. College visit
6. Drivers license examination
7. Take your child to work day
8. Religious observance
9. Closure of busing school district
10. An absence considered excused by the Commissioner of Education and/or a New Jersey Department of Education rule
What can you do if you lose credit? (Both reasons)
Retake the course or do an online credit recovery course through Educere
1. File a written appeal to Mr. Finizio within 5 days
2. State why you were absent and add proof
3. Principal will respond in no later than 7 days
4. Appeal meetings take place once per marking period or as needed
The celebrity chef who was a Fort Lee alumni
Lynja (Lynn Yamada Davis )