Procedures:
1. School personnel shall identify school-age children 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 Compulsory Education Violation.
A. A Notice of Compulsory Education Violation may be issued to the parent of a school-age
child who has been truant at least 5 times during the school year.
1. It shall direct the parent of the school-age child to meet with school authorities to
discuss the child’s school attendance problem.
2. It requires parents to cooperate with school authorities in securing regular attendance
by the child.
3. It designates the school authorities with whom the parent is required to meet.
4. It shall state that it is a Class B Misdemeanor for the parent of the child to intentionally or recklessly fail to meet with the designated school authorities to discuss the child’s attendance problem or fails to prevent the child from being absent without a valid excuse (truant) 5 or more
times during the remainder of the school year.
5. The notice shall be served on the child’s parent by school personnel of by certified mail.
B. If the parent intentionally or recklessly fails to meet with school authorities designated in the Notice of Compulsory Education Violation, or fails to prevent the child from being absent without a valid excuse (truant) 5 or more times (these are in addition to the original 5 truancies) during the remainder of the school year, a District Coordinator shall report the violation to the county or district attorney and notify parents.
*Students ages 12-13 may fit in either category.
APPEAL PROCESS
1. If the student is marked “Truant” or otherwise disciplined under this policy, the student and/or parent has the right to meet with the site administrator to tell his/her side of the story.
2. If either a Notice of Truancy or Notice of Compulsory Education Violation is issued, an appeal of that action may be made to a District Coordinator after the parents have met with the designated school officials to resolve the attendance problem. The appeal must be made within 5 working days of the meeting with school officials.
3. If a District Coordinator issues a Habitual Truant Citation and/or a referral to the County Attorney for a Compulsory Education Violation, an appeal of that action may be made to the Director of Student Services or Director of Special Education (for students in Special Education) within 5 working days of notification to parents of that decision. The Habitual Truant Citation and/or the Notice of Compulsory Education Violation will not be sent to the Juvenile Court nor the District Attorney until after the 5 day appeal window.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION/TRUANCY
CATEGORY 2
For school-age minors under the age of 14 (school-age child)*