Cabrillo Tardy Policy and Procedures

1st Period:
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At 7:43AM or before, teacher stands at classroom door encouraging students to get to class.
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At 7:45AM tardy bell, teachers please shut classroom door and do not admit tardy students.
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From 7:45AM-7:55AM students held, IDs scanned and given tardy pass at front gate or ACCESS.
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From 7:55AM-8:00AM students released to class, teachers no longer accept late students after 8:05AM.
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After 8:05AM any student found outside class without a pass will be swept to lunch tables.
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All students arriving after 8:00AM will be in attendance counseling for period by administrator(s) or designee.
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Students arriving to school after 8:15AM will be given a truancy notification and possible citation by LBPD. Citations vary from $225.00 to $900.00. In addition, parent/guardian must accompany student to court and student’s driver license may be suspended or delayed for up to three years.
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Students with 3 or more truancies will have designated attendance interventions, that include, but are not limited to the following:
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Truancy letters will be sent from the district.
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Students may be cited after first truancy letter sent.
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Interventions for tardiness/truancies will lead to counseling, parent contact, detention, citation, and/or alternative placement.
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Teachers, parents, students, counselors and administrators will intervene to resolve issue.
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No students dismissed with or without a pass during the first and last 10 minutes of class.

2nd – 6th Periods
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Any student arriving to school 30 minutes after a period in which s/he is scheduled is considered truant.
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Teachers stand outside door for at least last 2 minutes prior to tardy bell.
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At tardy bell, teachers please shut classroom doors and do not admit tardy students.
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Conference period teachers and CSOs sweep students to ACCESS office, 1000 building, or 500 building to get an unexcused tardy pass and/or appropriate intervention.
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Students sent to class with an unexcused tardy pass are to wait for teacher’s entry direction.
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Teachers allow student into class during the first 10 minutes only if s/he has an unexcused pass. All unexcused tardy students may be denied ability to make-up that day’s missed work.
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10-minutes after class begins, students outside class will be brought his/her SLC counselor or administrator.
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Teachers will only admit students to class with an excused pass after 10 minutes into the class period.
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No unexcused tardy passes shall be accepted by teacher beyond 10-minutes into class period.
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Teachers will not give tardy students excused passes to leave class.
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All loitering/truant students will be assigned detention, counseled, parents contacted, and/or cited.
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No students are to be dismissed with or without a pass during the first and last 10 minutes of class.
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Teachers will not dismiss students from class prior to dismissal bell.
Initial Attendance Consequences
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Truancy letter sent home
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Student conference
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Parent conference
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Citation (Truancy Ticket)
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Third tardy to first period is one 30 minute detention, 45 minute detention thereafter for each tardy accrued.
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Every tardy to periods 2-6 is a 45 minute detention.
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Failure to serve detention is defiance of school policy and will result in an all day suspension to On Campus Suspension room 1604 with a minimum 45 minute detention after school.
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Failure to comply with OCS Policy will lead to at least 2 days suspension to Truancy Center.