Attendence
The front office is open daily from 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. The school phone number is (469)752-6000. There is no access into the building after 4:00 p.m.
If you need to pick up your child during regular school hours for an appointment, please send a note with your child in the morning. Have them bring it to the front office, preferably Bwfore 1st period. Your child will be given a pass to show their teacher so that they can meet you in the front office at the designated time. You must come into the front office to sign your child out, Even if it is during their lunch titme. If your child returns to school that day, they may sign back in on their own.
Please call our Child Safe Line before 9:30 a.m. when your child is going to be absent. The phone number is (469)752-6000. Then choose option #3 and spell your child's first and last name, slowly and clearly. If you know your child's ID number, please also give that. It is not necessary to call if your child will be arriving late due to an appointment.
In order for an absence to be excused, a written note or a doctor's note must be sent to the front office which is dated and states your child's legal name, their grade, the date(s) of absence, and the reason for the absence. This is required, even if you reported the absence on the Child Safe Line. A doctor's note is Required after an absence of 5 or more consecutive days.
If you sign your child out during the school day to go to a doctor, dentist, orthodontist, etc., but your child is physically present for at least one period during that day, please have your child bring a note from the doctor stating: 1. the child's first and last name 2. the date of the appointment 3. the time of the appointment 4. the doctor's name or signature This official doctor's note removes your child's absence from their record.
Generally, students are given one school day for each day they are absent to make up missed assignments. Parents may request homework assignments for students absent 3 or more consecutive school days by calling the office Before 10:00 a.m. on the 3rd day of absence. This homework is due the day the student returns to school. Make-up work may not be requested in advance, unless the student is absent 3 or more consecutive days.
Absences such as vacations and trips (except those excused by the principal for unusual circumstances), babysitting, working, non-school-sponsored athletic events and programs shall be considered unexcused. In order for a student to make up and receive credit for work assigned during an unexcused absence, the student must submit one week in advance a written notification of the planned absence to the principal. Forms for this are available in the front office. When no prior notification is given, the student shall receive a zero for all work assigned during the absence.
If you have any further questions concerning attendance, please notify Liz Brence, Rice Attendance Clerk at (469)752-6002.