FILE: JBE
Cf: IHAD
TRUANCY
The
Livingston Parish School Board recognizes truancy as absence from class or
school for any portion of a period or day without permission from home or
school. Students shall not be
allowed to leave the campus without proper permission at any time during the
school day, including before school begins, after school while waiting for their
bus, or any disciplinary session which the student has been directed to attend.
Students shall remain on the campus at all times unless granted
permission to be off-campus, or be subject to disciplinary action.
Violations of attendance laws and regulations may lead to suspension
and/or expulsion from school.
School
personnel shall be expected to make every reasonable effort to assist a child
who is habitually absent or tardy.
A student shall be considered habitually absent or habitually tardy when
either condition continues to exist after all reasonable efforts by any school
personnel, truant officer, or other law enforcement personnel have failed to
correct the condition after the fifth (5th) unexcused absence or fifth (5th)
unexcused occurrence of being tardy within any school semester. Any student who
is a juvenile and who is considered habitually absent from school or habitually
tardy shall be reported by visiting teachers and Supervisors of Child Welfare
and Attendance to the family or juvenile court of the parish or city as a truant
child.
Tardy,
for the purpose of notification, shall include, but not be limited to being late
to school, or leaving or checking out of school unexcused prior to the regularly
scheduled dismissal time at the end of the school day.
However, it shall not include reporting late to class when transferring
from one class to another during the school day.
GUARDIAN
RESPONSIBLE
With regard to any student in grades kindergarten (K) through eighth (8th)
grade who is considered habitually absent or tardy, in any case where the
student is the subject of a court ordered custody or visitation plan, the parent
or legal guardian who is lawfully exercising actual physical custody or
visitation of the student shall be responsible for the student’s attendance at
school on those days and shall be solely responsible for any absence or
tardiness of the child on such days.
Revised:
September, 2008
Revised:
September, 2009
Ref:
La. Rev. Stat. Ann.
''17:221,
17:221.1, 17:223, 17:228, 17:233; Louisiana Children’s Code, Art. 728, 730;
Board minutes, 4-9-09.