Attendance!

Semester 1 of the 2024-2025 school year has found us with 1,608 tardies and 1,177 absences! We must do better as a school. Our students are working so hard and achieving so much academically, but imagine what they could do if they were here and on time. Did you know that starting in preschool and kindergarten too many absences can cause children to fall behind. What can you do? Set a regular bedtime, create a morning routine, try to make non-urgent appointments outside of school time. Attending school regularly helps children feel better about school - and themselves!

Charles Attendance

Beginning Sem 2 new push for attendance

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hey Steve Jones here principal Charles Elementary School uh thanks for taking the time to just listen to this uh we uh we have a celebration uh our federal report card we exceeded uh on our academic side of things uh we exceeded expectations which is phenomenal uh which I don't know how many uh more schools did that we once again we are in the uh top 8% this year of uh schools according to US News and World Report so top 8% is quite an accomplishment um but on our federal report card uh where we exceeded in the uh academic area exceeded it um our attendance we did not meet expectations so um and when you look at first semester we had uh 1,608 tardies and we had 177 absences so we you know we save your students sick keep them at home but there's absolutely no reason to not get them here on time so help us out with that uh starting Monday we uh and school starts at 7:50 whereas when we shut the doors after 750 your student is tardy so but starting Monday if uh after you uh your student has reached 5 tardies is that it uh you will be um you will need to come in and sign them in and I will be at the front uh at the table there so you can talk to me and we'll figure out what we can do to help you out to get your student here on time because we have a lot of teachers that by 7:30 7:40 they are already uh doing some working with small groups uh getting kids going so when your students come in at 8:30 9:00 whatever time it might be uh they're already uh losing out in academic opportunities so please help us out uh because 1 168 tardies is way too many for 1 semester you figure it's been about that was about 85 days and that is too many so please uh keep that in mind also uh we are going to have weekly drawings for those students that have uh perfect attendance and that's uh no tardies uh and they're here every day that we right now we have water bottles we have Richmond water bottles which are really great when you go those out we're going to have some T-shirts later on uh so we will have prizes for those students that are getting here on time and doing the right thing uh for those others uh you're going to be meeting with me and we're going to see if we can get the tardy issue under control so this is just a Charles uh policy it's not anywhere else just Charles is you will need to come uh bring your uh student in and sign them in after the 5:30 so please help us out because we want to we would love to exceed uh expectations on our uh attendance area on our national report card as well so so uh help us out and uh we can only get better uh by working together so let's uh let's do what we can