PSD’s Elementary Attendance Success Criteria
Common success criteria are needed for all elementary schools to ensure that the school district is accounting for young students’ safety.
Rationale: It is critical that all elementary aged students be accounted for daily for their safety and wellbeing as there are many situations that a parent could assume that a student is at school and the school could assume the student is at home leaving a lost student in danger.
General Considerations:
- Parents and Guardians reporting an excused absence via phone, app or email, is evidence of student safety and no follow up is needed.
- If there is no communication from Parents and Guardians, the school must meet the success criteria.
- For the office attendance protocols to be successful, attendance must be completed by classroom teachers within the first 30 minutes of class.
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Student safety is the school’s top priority, and this attendance work must take precedence over other tasks.
The sooner a parent or guardian hears from us or vice versa, the better for student safety.
Bauder will be utilizing the School Messenger system for any absences without a reason. For students’ safety we will continue to call parents, guardians and/or emergency contacts until we hear the child is safely with their families.
What can you do to help? You can report your student’s absence before 9:30am. Our attendance line is available 24 hours a day, you can call and leave the reason for the absence at 970-488-4151. You can also use your ParentVue account to enter the absence. Absences can only be excused within 5 days of the date of absence. Thank you in advance for your help in keeping our students safe.