Wyandanch Union Free School District

Procedures

Lateness
When a student is late to school, they are missing out on learning. Parents should make sure their child is in school by 8:25am for LFH and MLK, and 9:30am for the Annex.

Students who arrive late to school more than 2 hours late after the start of class but prior to 11:30AM will be marked as absent for the morning session. Students arriving later than 1:30PM will be marked absent for the entire day.

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Chronic Absence and Tru
According to the New York State, Department of Education, Chronic absentees shall be defined as a student missing 10% or more (excused or unexcused) of the days the scholar has been enrolled and school is in session.

Irregular Attendance Procedures
If your child exhibits irregular attendance, the following steps will be taken and recorded in your child’s attendance records.

Teacher will attempt to contact the parent at least 3 times. All communication between teachers and parents will be documented in your child’s attendance records.
Attendance office may be notified if the teacher is unable to contact the parent.
Consecutive absent letters are sent home on a weekly basis. A consecutive absence letter will be automatically sent home to parents of students who have 3 or more consecutive absences in a week.
The attendance office will follow up with a phone call/home visit if there was no parent response from the teacher's attempt and no response to letters that were sent home.
The attendance office will notify the Social Worker to take further steps if necessary.

Attendance Notes

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When reporting your child absence, please review the following protocols as well as acceptable excused absences.

Parents must provide a written excuse of their child's absence via fax, email, in person to the school, or by parent square. only.
Parents must include their child’s full name, grade, date, and reason to determine if absence will be excused.
All medical and legal absent notes can be emailed directly to your child’s teacher or faxed directly to your child’s school nurse.

Acceptable Excused Absences

Student Illness

Medical appointment

Death/Illness of family member

Technology Issues/Outages

Legal circumstances relating to student

Home Visits

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The school shall and will conduct a home visit to any scholar who is chronically absent and truant or other reasons that prevent the child from attending school.

Transfers & Verification

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Parents should inform the attendance office if their child has or will be transferring out of the district or in need of a verification. Transfer request forms and verifications are available online at Wyandach. At the top of the website, click on Parents then scroll down to Verification and Out of District Transfer Request. Parents must complete the form in its entirety and submit a copy of their identification.

Transfers will be processed and records will be sent directly to the new school upon receiving proof of enrollment from the new school. All verification requests will be emailed or mailed back to the parent/guardian or designee within 48 hours of receiving the request.