CNG HS Academic Program Guide 2023 - 2024: Attendance

ATTENDANCE

CNG expects students to be in attendance each and every day that school is scheduled. Absences implicate not only the student who is absent but can negatively impact the learning of other students in the class. Parents should plan vacations, medical appointments, and other non-school events around school holidays and school hours whenever possible.

Parents and students are expected to review Skyward on a regular basis and address any issues they see with either tardies or absences with their students/parents and/or administration to ensure records are accurate.

Parents must report student absences to the High School Office within 48 hours of the absence for it to be counted as excused. Parent reports after that time will be noted but not generally excused. For students who are absent due to an illness of three or more days, an official doctor’s note must be provided.

Absences are Excused for:

• Illness or treatment (with medical note)
• Unavoidable cause (e.g. accident, natural catastrophe)
• Issues with school-provided transportation
• Behavioral consequences
• Religious celebrations
• Field trip organized by the school
• Student athletes selected to represent national/ district events (Decree 2845 of 1984, article 48, required by law for athletes)
• Passport/visa issues or legal/Embassy appointments
• Transition visits or testing for other schools (for departing students)
• AP Exams
• Other absences caused by extenuating circumstances, must be petitioned through a letter and will be reviewed by the division administration and/or committee

PRE-ARRANGED ABSENCE

• Administration should be notified three (3) days prior to being off campus. Unless there are extenuating circumstances, requests submitted after the three (3) day deadline will not approved, and therefore, the absence will not be excused.
• For non-school related Pre-Arranged Absences, students must obtain PRE-APPROVAL from the Associate Principal.

ABSENCES & MISSING WORK/ASSIGNMENTS

• “All Learning is Mandatory at CNG”
• If missing work due to an absence is not turned in on time, students must make arrangements with the subject teacher to complete the missing work to address the content standards. This may include attending Opportunity Days, working through lunch time, and/or completing alternative assignments at the teacher’s discretion. It is the student’s responsibility to demonstrate the content standards.

Students are required to make up formative/summative assessments that were due during an absence. Students who fail to attend these sessions will be referred to the Office through Skyward for follow-up by their Associate Principal.

EXCESSIVE ABSENCES

Attendance in class is critical for success at CNG. Students with excessive absences (i.e. more than five (5) classes per course in any one semester) will be referred to the Associate Principal. If it is determined that the absences are not valid/excused, students will face disciplinary consequences under the CNG Code of Honor as they will be seen as not upholding the CNG Core Values.

Students with excessive absences will be required to attend after-school sessions during Opportunity Day with that teacher. They are expected to be completing work that is overdue,coming due ,or preparing for upcoming assessments in any of their courses.

Students who fail to make up their absences may receive an INCOMPLETE (I) on their report cards. This could result in not earning the credit for a course, regardless of their grade at the end of a semester.

Students who do not make up classes risk not earning the credit in their U.S. accredited courses as a result of excessive absences.

EARLY DEPARTURE FROM CAMPUS

Parents are requested to follow the proper procedures at each building to request a student leave early.

Parents must contact the high school attendance office via email at least two (2) hours prior to the request for students to leave school early. If the parent fails to send the email prior to two (2) hours of dismissal, they must personally come and sign the student out. Please note that maids, nannies, drivers, and other employees of the parent may not come to the building office in place of a parent or guardian.

BUS PASSES

Students who need to go home on a different school bus route, need to have parents email the building office dismissal system by 11:00 AM and include the bus number, the name of the student going home with and/or the address of the place where the student needs to be dropped off.