Aldine I.S.D. Teacher Handbook - Aldine Independent School District

The district will pay for membership fees for teachers if membership is required for students to
participate in the organization contest/activity.
Per Diem at District Events
The school district will pay for meals and lodging for contestants at district, regional and state level
contests. Lodging will be the actual expense.
Lodging - per night at actual expense
Meals - When possible, directors/program directors will make arrangements with a restaurant to
provide a meal for less than $12.00 instead of providing per diem to students. If
arrangements cannot be made, meals will be $12.00 for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Travel arrangements must be approved in advance by the appropriate director. The district or
program director will make hotel arrangements to get government rate for all travel.
AB. ATTENDANCE POLICY
Every child in the state who is six years of age or who is less than six years of age but has previously
been enrolled in the first grade must be enrolled in school. Students must continue to be enrolled in
school until their eighteenth (18 th ) birthday occurs. Attendance shall be for a minimum of eighty
(80) days each semester for grades 7-12. High school students may only have three (3) absences per
semester in order to receive credit. Absences from school shall be of two types, excused and
unexcused. Excused absences can be made up and credit for make-up work recorded. Missed work
for unexcused absences can be made up but the maximum grade will be a 70. Excused absences are
granted for the following reasons:
a. Personal illness
b. Serious illness or death in the student's immediate family
c. Emergency medical or dental attention
d. Absences approved by the principal in advance
e. Observance of religious holy days that require the student's participation
A student whose absence is excused under this reason may not be penalized for that
absence and will be counted as if the student attended school.
A student whose absence is excused under this reason will be allowed a reasonable
time to make-up schoolwork missed on those days.
f. Weather or road conditions making travel dangerous
g. Quarantine
h. Temporary absence resulting from health care appointments, if that student commences classes
or returns to school on the same day of the appointment.
A student whose absence is excused under this reason may not be penalized for that
absence and will be counted as if the student attended school.
A student whose absence is excused under this reason will be allowed a reasonable
time to make up schoolwork missed on those days.
Students must bring a note from the parent or guardian requesting an excused absence for one of
these reasons. In the case of an absence due to a health care appointment, a note from the health care
professional's office and signed by that professional, must be brought to the school. These notes will
be kept on file in the attendance office. Unexcused absences include but are not limited to truancy,
missing the bus, over-sleeping, any excused absence without the required notes, and absences not
excused in advance by the principal. If a student is in attendance fewer than eighty (80) days a
semester, the student will not receive credit for that class. Students may only have three (3) absences
per semester in order to receive credit. An attendance committee may grant exceptions for
extenuating circumstances.
Participation in school sponsored activities will not be counted as an absence.
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