TARDY POLICY

• A student is tardy to class if he/she is NOT inside the classroom door when the tardy bell rings.
• Regular tardy sweeps will pick up students found out of class after the tardy bell rings.
 
• All tardies count regardless of the reason: Illness, oversleeping, car trouble, tardy sweep, etc.  EXCEPTION:  A written, dated and timed tardy excuse signed by a teacher or other school personnel.
• THE FOLLOWING POLICY IS EXPECTED TO REDUCE THE TARDY PROBLEM:
• Teachers are encouraged to stand at their doors during passing period.  They shall remind students to arrive on time.
• The teaching staff will not allow students to stand in the doorways, but insist they enter  
• Teachers will discourage student from leaving class and missing instruction.  Under no circumstances should teachers give passes to students to make personal phone calls.  Students allowed to leave a classroom or office must carry official school hall passes and have a current I.D. card.
• A student out of class, for any reason, without a pass will be tardy or truant depending on       the time out of class.
• Teachers are required to inform parents of 4 or more tardies.   

ATTENDANCE OFFICE PROCEDURES

POLICY FOR CLEARING ABSENCES

Birmingham High School staff believes in the importance of instructional time, therefore students will not be allowed to be sent out of class during class time to clear their attendance. Students are responsible to bring a note to the Attendance Office, before/after school or during nutrition/lunch. Students that fail to clear their attendance (within two days) will automatically be marked truant and may be subject to lunch clean –up or a $200.00 fine.

Periodically, students will receive a notice with all their uncleared absences and will be asked to bring a note from home. The note should include date, reason for absence and parent/guardian signature. Students should bring the note to the Attendance Office, before/after school or during nutrition/lunch. If a student believes there has been an error, they should ask their particular teacher to mark either present or absent on the notice and to initial (AGAIN: Students are responsible to return it to the Attendance Office before/after school or during nutrition/lunch).

PERIOD BY PERIOD TEACHER ATTENDANCE DIRECTIONS
RECORDING ATTENDANCE

If a student enters class after the teacher has submitted attendance, login again and resubmit attendance. When the class roster is opened the students who were marked absent will still show as previously submitted.

EXCUSED AND UNEXCUSED TARDIES
TARDY EXCUSED STUDENTS

Mark any student present who has a “tardy excused”. The LAUSDMAX/ISIS system will only allow, tardy or present (there will no longer be Tardy Excused). Changes on LAUSDMAX/ISIS can be made until 3:30 p.m. that day.

1st PERIOD TARDY STUDENTS

• Those students arriving between 8:00-8:20 a.m. will be released at 8:20 a.m. with an unexcused tardy slip to period 1. Teachers are responsible to ensure that all students marked absent are changed to Tardy for the period.
• Mark any student present who has a “tardy excused”. NOTE: THERE ISN’T SUCH A THING AS TARDY EXCUSED – A STUDENT IS EITHER TARDY OR PRESENT

HOW TO DO IT:
STEP 1.           Login. When the class roster is opened the students who were marked absent will still show as previously submitted.
STEP 2.        Click to change to O Present the student that came in with the Tardy–Excuse OR Click to change to O Tardy the student that came in with an unexcused tardy.
STEP 3.           Go to the bottom of your screen and click  Submit .
STEP 4.           Go back to the top of your screen and on the right hand corner click on LOGOUT.

TARDY UNEXCUSED STUDENTS
Log in and click on Tardy for any student who is tardy with a blue slip. It is the teacher’s responsibility to record tardy’s on LAUSDMAX/ISIS.
CORRECTIONS
Corrections can be made in LAUSDMAX/ISIS until 3:30 p.m. Any corrections necessary after that time must be made on the TEACHER/ATTENDANCE OFFICE COMMUNICATIONS form and submitted to the Attendance Office.

TEACHER SIGN-OFF / ATTENDANCE ROSTERS

• All rosters must be turned in on a weekly basis.
• After 2 days of a student not clearing an absence, please mark a #3 (in red ink) on your Teacher Sign-Off if it’s not already marked.
• Verify rosters (Teacher Sign-Off), which will be printed on Tuesdays for the prior week, this will allow the Attendance Office to clear attendance from the prior week. 
• Please make any necessary corrections (in red ink) and return them to the Attendance Office every Thursday. The Attendance Office will make the necessary corrections and return it back to you to verify completed changes.
• After the Attendance Office has made necessary corrections, you must sign and maintain completed verification rosters in the accordion folder which will be provided. File verification rosters in ascending order to be collected at the end of the semester.
• YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SUBMIT ANY OTHER TYPE OF ROLLBOOK FOR ATTENDANCE.

LEGEND FROM TEACHER’S SIGN-OFF

NOTE: THERE ISN’T SUCH A THING AS TARDY EXCUSED – A STUDENT IS EITHER TARDY OR PRESENT