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Homework Requests •10 Tardies: referral to Unit Principal and one
afterschool detention.
Any student absent from school should check Home
Access Center (Sungard) for homework as teachers •15 Tardies: referral to Unit Principal and two
post assignments daily. Please email the teacher afterschool detentions.
directly if you see a worksheet indicated or if you have
questions regarding an assignment. Any item(s) left for Excessive tardies may be referred to the Summit
a student by a teacher can be picked up in the main County truant officer.
office between 3:00pm and 3:45pm.
BOOK BAGS/BACKPACKS
Absences Relating to Athletics and After-
School Activities/Events Students must put their book bags and back packs in
their lockers before homeroom and pick them up
Students must be in attendance at school at least one- after ninth period. Book bags/backpacks are not
half of the day in order to participate in after-school or permitted in the hallways or classrooms during the
evening activities/events. If a student is arriving late, school day.
s/he must sign-in to school by 11:20am, or if a student
is signing out, s/he must be present for a total of at STUDENT DROP OFF AND PICK UP
least 3.5 hours of the school day. PROCEDURES
Advanced Absence Notice In order to protect the safety of our students, please be
aware of the following student drop off and pick up
When a student knows that he/she will be absent from procedures:
school, he/she is required to pick up an Advanced
Absence form from the Attendance Office or you can 1. The entrance to the Middle School from Oviatt
find the form at www.hudson.k12.oh.us/Middle Street is restricted to BUSES, EMERGENCY,
School/Parents/Forms. This form requires a parent AND DISTRICT VEHICLES ONLY during the
signature, and is a mutual agreement between the hours of 7:00am through 3:30pm on school
teachers and the student on an acceptable make-up days.
due date validated by all of the student's teachers. This
is then turned in to the attendance secretary. It is 2. Parents dropping off or picking up students
mutually understood that the sole responsibility for must enter from Aurora Street to Franklin
the completion of the advance absence notice and the Street, and follow the lane to the right of the
make up of classroom work belongs to the student. sidewalk near the garages.
Appointments 3. Students should exit or enter the vehicles from
the sidewalk between the garages and the
When a student needs to leave the building for a staff parking lot.
scheduled appointment, a written parent request should
be presented to the Attendance Office before 4. Parents will turn right at the stop sign at the
homeroom on the day of the appointment. end of the garages and exit onto Oviatt Street.
Turning left across the crosswalk is strictly
1. Students must be signed in and out of the prohibited.
building by a parent/guardian at the
attendance office. 5. Parents should not cross the bus lane into the
parking lot for the purpose of dropping off their
2. Students returning to school with a doctor’s student for school.
note may sign themselves back in at the
Attendance Office without a parent. 6. One last request for caution: if a parent plans
to drop his/her child off on Elm Street or Oviatt
Excessive Absences From School Street, the child should be dropped off on the
same side of the street as the building.
Any student absent from school, whether excused or Students are not to cross in front of traffic (i.e.,
unexcused, for ten (10) days or more in any one drop off on Elm Street traveling west toward
semester, or fifteen (15) days at any point during the Oviatt or on Oviatt Street traveling north
school year, may be required to present a medical toward Aurora Street.)
excuse for each absence thereafter for the remainder of
the school year. A student who fails to do so will be STUDENT CONDUCT ON SCHOOL BUSES
considered an unexcused absence. If the problem
continues, a referral for a student to the Summit County Board Policy: AG 5610.04
Attendance Officer may be made. The following regulations pertain to school bus conduct
and are intended to ensure the safety and welfare of
Tardiness to school the students, the bus driver and other drivers on the
road and to ensure safety and proper maintenance of
Parents must walk in to the Attendance Office when a school buses.
student is tardy. Students are tardy to school if they
are not in their homeroom at 7:50 AM. The teacher will Students Will:
record all tardies on the absence sheet. A. be careful in approaching bus stops, walk on the
Consequences for Tardiness: left facing oncoming traffic and be sure that the
road is clear both ways before crossing the
• 5 Tardies: referral to Unit Principal and one highway;
lunch detention. B. be on time at the bus stop in order to permit the
bus to follow the time schedule;
C. sit in assigned seats (bus drivers have the right to
assign a student to a seat in the bus and to expect
reasonable conduct similar to conduct expected in
the classroom)
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