IMPLEMENTATION
1. The Attendance and Truancy Policy will be included in registration materials or sent home annually. The policy will also be posted on the Weber School District Website.
2. The school will work with students and parents to encourage and promote punctual and
consistent attendance.
3. Each school will inform students and parents concerning procedures to excuse absences as
defined above.
4. Each school will monitor, periodically and annually, school attendance and evaluate the effectiveness of existing programs to encourage student attendance.
5. As described below, Notices of Truancy, Habitual Truant citations and/or Notices of Compulsory Education Violation may be issued when 5 or more truancies have occurred. In addition to positive measures as outlined in Implementation #2 above, a school administrator or designee may impose penalties/consequences on a school-age minor who is truant less than 5 times. Penalties/consequences will be imposed at the school level and may include, but are not limited to, in-school suspension, additional assignments, after-school or lunch detention, attendance credit loss, or community service assignments.
Procedures:
1. School personnel shall identify school-age minors who have attendance problems and make efforts to resolve the problem using truancy interventions (available on the Student Services Website), by contacting parents, working with the student, and enlisting the help of other school personnel. Interventions will be documented on the student tracker.
2. Weber School District authorizes school administrators or a designee of a school
administrator to issue Notices of Truancy.
Notice of Truancy
A. A Notice of Truancy may only be issued to school-age minors who are at least 12
years old and have been truant at least 5 times during the school year.
B. The notice shall direct the school-age minor and the parent to meet with school
authorities to discuss the truancies and cooperate with the school administration
in securing regular attendance by the school-age minor.
C. The notice shall be mailed to or served on the school-age minor’s parent by
school personnel.
3. Weber School District authorizes District Coordinators to issue Habitual Truant Citations.
Habitual Truant Citation
A. A Habitual Truant Citation may be issued to a school-age minor who is at least
12 years old, has received a Notice of Truancy, and has been truant 10 times
during the school year or after receiving the Notice of Truancy failed to cooperate
with school officials in resolving the truancy problem.
B. Students receiving a habitual Truant Citation shall be referred to Juvenile Court and the
parents will be notified.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION/TRUANCY
CATEGORY I
For school-age minors age 12 and older*