Bingo Night

Saturday, September 14, 2019, starting at 7:00 p.m. the Debate Team will be hosting Bingo Night in the SHHS cafeteria.

Bingo_Night_Flyer.pdf

Attendance Policy

Thunderbird Parents:

One important change in our school policies that needs to be communicated sooner rather than later relates to attendance.  Below is an abbreviated version of our policy taken directly from our board-approved student handbook. 

ATTENDANCE POLICY 

There are two types of approved absences recognized by Shawnee Heights High School, documented excuses and parent excuses.

1. Documented excuses are for medical or legal related absences or student educational experiences sponsored by recognized educational agencies. Your student needs to provide documentation to be excused. A documented excuse may be submitted to the office by a student, parent, or faxed by an authorized third party (i.e. doctor’s office). A written document from a third party should be submitted on official stationary.
2. Parent Excused: Parents may make five requests each semester for their students to be absent or tardy for special occasions (parent excuses). All absences in excess of those five requests per semester will be "unexcused" without some form of documentation (dentist, medical, court clerk, etc.). Parent requests are subject to administrative approval. Parents may not excuse students to participate in a skip day, as there is no recognized Senior skip day. Unexcused absences could result in disciplinary action.

Our goal was to simplify the policy by only needing to count the number of times a parent calls for tardies or absences without documentation.  Any phone call from a parent excusing a student for being a few minutes late to missing a full day of school without documentation counts as one request.  As the policy reads, parents have five such requests each semester.  Documented absences do not count against this total.

We have streamlined our email for attendance as well. You may email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for all attendance reporting.

Sincerely,
Ed West
Principal
Shawnee Heights High School