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Anytime a student is absent from school the parent of guardian must call in with a reason for the absense ASAP. Attendance Office Secretaries contact information is available here. Tell the reason for absense, name, grade, and spelling of last name. All absenses are considered unexcused if we do not receive a call and students are not permitted to make up the work. Parent notes will not be accepted. Each student is allowed 3 parent call ins a semester to be excused. After the third call in, proper documentation must be submitted to the attendance office in order for the additional absences to become excused Absences are excused if a student attends a doctor/dentist appointment or court date and can provide documentation upon return. Students who are home ill are excused if the parent calls in for them on the day of the absence. (Students who are excessively absent due to illness will need a doctor’s note to excuse absences.) We also excuse absences for students to attend funerals of family members with funeral documentation. (Funeral program/letter) According to the State of Texas, a student who is in attendance for a portion of the school day, and then attends a medical appointment will be counted present if the student submits a dated doctor’s note upon his or her return. This allows students to maintain their semester exam exemptions in the classes they missed. The absence is marked “unexcused” until a doctor note is presented. Note that “unexcused” absences prevent students from completing any make-up work from the class(es) missed. Unexcused absences that accumulate could result in a complaint being filed with the court for truancy. Also, forgery or tampering of doctor/dental notes is a crime and will be prosecuted if discovered. Going out of town, interviewing for a job, taking the driving test, visiting family, running errands, baby sitting, taking vacations, or other “personal” reasons are not considered excused absences; and students will not be permitted to make up assignments missed. Our expectation at NMHS is that our students will be present every day that school is in session. Still, certain situations arise which require students to miss school. We ask that parents work with the school to keep those situations to a minimum. Please make every effort to schedule personal business appointments outside the school day. When situations do arise where students miss a portion of the school day, it is essential that they sign in or out. This is the school’s documentation of their whereabouts when they are not in school. Students that arrive to school after 9:00 a.m. will need to sign in at the attendance office. Students that need to leave early will sign out at the front desk in the main office. Students who leave early or arrive late without signing in or out will be marked “unexcused” from the classes missed. We ask that parents or guardians call the school in the morning if a student will be late to school that day due to illness or other extenuating circumstances. As a general rule, we do not excuse absences for students who leave school early for reasons other than their own medical needs. If a student feels ill and needs to go home, he or she must first go to the clinic. Our school nurse will make parent contact and release the student from school. Students should never leave of their own accord during the school day without receiving parental permission and signing out. To do so will result in an unexcused absence being recorded and an appropriate disciplinary measure being assessed. Truancy Laws: According to the State of Texas, children between the ages of six and eighteen are required to attend school each day for the entire period that the school’s program of instruction is provided. If a student is eighteen or older and they are enrolled in school, they are held accountable for their attendance under Texas law. Students who accumulate ten or more unexcused absences in a class in a six-month period, or three or more unexcused absences within a four-week period are considered truant by the State of Texas. When this occurs, it is the legal responsibility of the school district to file a complaint with the proper court against both the parent or guardian and the student (Class C Misdemeanor). The State of Texas requires that a student must be in a class 90% of the time it meets in order to receive credit. On block scheduling that means that a students can only miss a class 4 times (whether excused or unexcused) and still receive credit for that class. If unusual circumstances cause a student to exceed this limit, he or she can make up lost time through our recoup program. Announcements are made periodically, and signs are placed throughout the building which give the times and dates. Students are encouraged to see their administrators for more details. Important: Credits are awarded and denied at the end of each semester, and recoup cannot be served for a class after credit has already been denied. Therefore, recoup for first semester classes must be done during the first semester. This information is found on page 1 of the Student Code of Conduct.