Attendance Reminders
Tardies to First Period: NDA emphasizes being prompt to school as this is a necessary habit for success in life. If your student is tardy to their first period, and it should be excused due to circumstances out of the student’s control, please contact the Main Office at 429-6104 by 9 a.m. to excuse your student.
Students who are tardy to their first period must report directly to the Main Office. Students are permitted two excused tardies to their first hour, per semester. All tardies thereafter will be unexcused and the student will receive school consequences for their tardiness. All tardies are considered unexcused until the student’s parent contacts the Main Office to have them excused.
Since we value the individual parent communication for each student, only the student’s parent/guardian can excuse his/her tardiness. This applies to carpool situations also. In a carpool, each student’s parent must contact the Main Office to excuse his/her student.
Tardiness of more than 10 minutes will be considered an absence. Please call the Main Office for special circumstances.
Appointment Process for Students to leave School: Off-campus appointments during the school day are discouraged. If an appointment is necessary and unavoidable, permission to leave school for the appointment may be requested by phone at 429-6104 or in writing to the Main Office. Please contact the Main Office prior to the appointment, preferably 24 hours in advance but at a minimum at least 2 hours so that all appropriate passes may be issued. The time that you provide to our Main Office staff is the time that the student is dismissed from class. Please add approximately 3 minutes of time for your student to go to their locker and check out of the atrium. Students must pick up a pink pass from the Main Office. Your student presents this pass to their teacher that indicates the time that they are to leave class. When leaving for a scheduled appointment, the student must check out at the atrium desk and give the Atrium Receptionist the pink pass. Upon returning to school, the student must report directly to the Main Office and present official verification of the appointment. Official verification is a signed note from the appointment destination. Students will need this note to be eligible to participate in extracurricular activities.
Anticipated Absences: If an absence of multiple days is known in advance, the student must present a signed parent note to the Main Office three to five days prior to the absence. This allows for adequate time to complete the process. The process is designed to facilitate communication between your student and his/her teachers. The student will then be given a green form to notify each teacher that the upcoming absence is excused. The student will have each teacher sign the form. After all the teachers have signed the form, then the parent/guardian must sign the form. The form will need to be on file in the Main Office one day prior to the absence.
Attendance Records: If a parent/guardian does not notify the office about an absence or a tardy, it is considered unexcused. Student attendance records will not be changed 2 school days after the absence/tardy.
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