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Attendance Policy - Pages 4 - 5 of CCAVTS Student Information Handbook

     Regular school attendance is essential for success in school as well as employment. Daily attendance is recorded by the instructors.
Legal excuses for not attending school shall be limited to: illness or recovery from an accident, quarantine to the home or death in the immediate family. Certain absences may be classified as excused at the discretion of school officials. These may include court appearances, unavoidable family emergencies, religious holiday/instructions, educational trips or health care such as medical appointments. These should be approved in advance.
     The Crawford County AVTS’s Joint Operating Committee Policy states that regular attendance in school is a necessary condition for a student to secure maximum benefit from the public school program being provided. The school’s administration may require a student to provide a medical statement or excuse from a licensed practitioner of the healing arts for every absence from school, subsequent to that student having accumulated absences of fifteen (15) school sessions and/or fifteen (15) school days in any school year. Failure to provide the requested medical excuse may result in such absences being classified as unexcused and/or unlawful depending on the age of the student.
Reasons for absences that are never acceptable include, but are not limited to:
Personal Reasons Illegal Employment
Babysitting Truancy - Absence without parental knowledge
Running Errands Leaving School during School Hours
Shopping Hunting
Missing the Bus
Parental Neglect - Parent knows of the absence
(i.e. unauthorized trips, babysitting, errands, housework, oversleeping)

Check with the Attendance Office before the absence to avoid being penalized for an unexcused absence. Acceptance of excuses will be determined by school personnel. Notification of the school does not insure that an excuse will be considered excused/legal.
Unexcused absences constitute truancy and for students of compulsory school age, unexcused absences are illegal. All class work lost during unexcused or unlawful absences may not be made up and is recorded on the school records as a zero (0). A total of more than three days of unlawful absences makes the parents subject to a fine or imprisonment under provisions of the Pennsylvania School Code. Students beyond compulsory school age are expected to attend school regularly. Students in this category may be excluded from school if persistently absent without acceptable excuses.
Students must account for all absences by notes from parents or guardians. These notes signed by the parent, guardian or responsible adult containing the date or dates of absences and the reason for the absence are to be presented to the Vo-Tech School’s Attendance Clerk at the beginning of the next class attended. Any absence not covered by an excuse within three days of the absence will be recorded as unexcused and may result in disciplinary action. The responsibility for arranging to make up work rests entirely with the student.

Students will not be excused before the regular dismissal time without a written request from a parent or guardian, except for serious illness. The request must be presented to the Attendance Office for approval before the beginning of class. Students are not permitted to leave the building or absent themselves from their assigned area DURING SCHOOL HOURS without signing out in the Attendance Office at the home school or the Vo-Tech School. A student who arrives at his/her class after the scheduled starting time will be considered tardy or late and must report to the Attendance Office for an admittance slip. Excuses for early dismissals and tardiness will follow the same requirements outlined for absences.
Students who become ill during the day must report to the Attendance Office. Ill students are not to go to the restroom to stay or go home without signing out in the office at the high school or the Vo-Tech School Attendance Office. Students waiting to be taken home must wait in the Attendance Office until released by office staff.
Students are required to attend the Crawford County AVTS on days that the Home Schools have scheduled Act 80 Days. If the student is not in attendance on these days the student will be marked absent. An excuse must be submitted to the Vo-Tech School’s Attendance Office, or the absence will become unexcused after three days.