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make up work
By Kellie

Our policy is one day for each day missed if the absence is excused. It is up to each teacher if the student can make it up for unexcused absences. I teach first grade and if they don't do the assignment at home within
the time allowed, they don't get it in the grade book. I don't take a lot of grades because the work is guided and it is practice. But tests are graded and if a student is doing poorly on tests due to attendance problems, I would have a parent-student-teacher conference to find out what the problem is. Our principal sends letters to parents whose children have attendance problems which

includes being tardy. Kids cant learn if they're not in school. I think three days is more than enough time. Maybe too much. We got really strict at our school because of past problems and achievement has gone up overall. What grade do you teach and what is Mom doing about it? There should be consequences: do the work after school either at home or at school, or miss out on some recess or gym time to do the work. We send weely grade reports out to 7-12th grade families and have gotten much better parent involvement because of it. (Our school is small.) Hope this helps. Good luck!!