{"id":84,"date":"2013-08-05T16:49:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T16:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www5.milwaukee.k12.wi.us\/school\/morsemarshall\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2013-08-05T16:49:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T16:49:47","slug":"attendance-procedures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/marshall\/families\/attendance-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Attendance and Early Release Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Marshall\u2019s educational program is built on the premise that regular school attendance is vital to a student\u2019s success in school.\u00a0We are proud of our 94% attendance rate. Parents play an important role in developing sound attitudes about school attendance and are encouraged to work cooperatively with teachers to positively influence pupil attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Regular school attendance is important because it contributes to high achievement and academic success.\u00a0It also contributes to the characteristics of responsible citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The following reasons for absences are valid: Illness, serious illness or death in the family, medical or dental attention, religious holidays, mandated court appearances, educational or district-sponsored activities approved by the principal.<\/p>\n<h2>Steps to follow when absent from school<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Parents must call the school on the day of the absence.<\/li>\n<li>The Phone number is 414-393-2464.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Upon the return of the student<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Parent or guardian must provide an excuse giving name, phone number, student\u2019s home base, date of absence and reason for absence.<\/li>\n<li>This excuse can be sent with the child, emailed to the school, or faxed (414-393-2315) Attn:\u00a0 Attendance Secretary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Steps to follow for an early dismissal<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Parents must send a note with the student on the day of the early dismissal giving the time the child will be picked up from school.<\/li>\n<li>The student must bring the note to the attendance office first thing in the morning to get an early dismissal slip.<\/li>\n<li>The student will remain in class until the parent arrives and shows proper identification, which is checked against the emergency contact card.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Tardies<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A little late is too late<\/li>\n<li>Almost all tardiness is unnecessary.<\/li>\n<li>We prefer to have a pupil tardy rather than absent.\u00a0A student coming late in the morning or afternoon must report to the main office for an admit slip.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Marshall\u2019s educational program is built on the premise that regular school attendance is vital to a student\u2019s success in school.\u00a0We are proud of our 94% attendance rate. Parents play an important role in developing sound attitudes about school attendance and are encouraged to work cooperatively with teachers to positively influence pupil attendance. Regular school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":79,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-84","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/marshall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/marshall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/marshall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/marshall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/marshall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/marshall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/marshall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/marshall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}