Aldine I.S.D. Teacher Handbook - Aldine Independent School District

Lending money to staff members is prohibited.
X. FEES, MEMBERSHIPS, AND PER DIEM AT DISTRICT EVENTS
School Fees and Memberships
All membership fees for organizations such as UIL, etc. will be paid by the district. This
includes entrance fees in events of solo and ensemble, concert and sight reading, career and
technology contests, etc. Requests for such checks are to be made well in advance of the date
and are to be directed to the appropriate director.
Professional Organizations
Personal membership(s) in professional organizations are not to be charged to the district,
special revenue, or agency funds, unless it costs less to pay for the cost of a conference or
subscription fee plus a membership fee than it does to pay the non-member fee for the
conference or subscription fee. The district will pay for membership fees for teachers if
membership is required for students to participate in the organization contest/activity.
Y. ATTENDANCE POLICY
Every child in the state who is six years of age or who is less than six years of age but has previously
been enrolled in the first grade, must be enrolled in school. Students must continue to be enrolled in
school until their eighteenth (18 th ) birthday occurs. Attendance will be for a minimum of eighty (80)
days each semester for grades 7-8. Absences from school will be of two types, excused and
unexcused. Excused absences can be made up and credit for make-up work recorded. Missed work
for unexcused absences can be made up but the maximum grade will be a 70. Excused absences are
granted for the following reasons:
a. Personal illness
b. Serious illness or death in the student's immediate family
c. Emergency medical or dental attention
d. Absences approved by the principal in advance
e. Observance of religious holy days that require the student's participation
A student whose absence is excused under this reason may not be penalized for that
absence and will be counted as if the student attended school.
A student whose absence is excused under this reason will be allowed a reasonable
time to make-up schoolwork missed on those days.
f. Weather or road conditions making travel dangerous
g. Quarantine
h. Temporary absence resulting from health care appointments, if that student commences
classes or returns to school on the same day of the appointment.
A student whose absence is excused under this reason may not be penalized for that
absence and will be counted as if the student attended school.
A student whose absence is excused under this reason will be allowed a reasonable
time to make up schoolwork missed on those days.
Students must bring a note from the parent or guardian requesting an excused absence for one of
these reasons. In the case of an absence due to a health care appointment, a note from the health care
professional's office and signed by that professional, must be brought to the school. These notes will
be kept on file in the attendance office. Unexcused absences include but are not limited to truancy,
missing the bus, over-sleeping, any excused absence without the required notes, and absences not
excused in advance by the principal. If a student is in attendance fewer than eighty (80) days a
semester, the student will not receive credit for that class. An attendance committee may grant
exceptions for extenuating circumstances.
Participation in school sponsored activities will not be counted as an absence.
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