New Protocol for Excused/ Health Related Absences.

In conjunction with the school nurse, in-building BECCA coordinator and the attendance office, Mountlake Terrace High school adopted the following protocol for excused/health related absences.

If a student develops a persistent pattern of unexcused absences across multiple days or sporadically across weeks and months MTHS will request a signed doctors note providing the following information:

• Diagnosis or illness/condition preventing student from attending school
• Date seen in the office
• Anticipated prognosis including the date of return to school
• Signature from doctor
• Signature from parent attesting to doctors statement as the student is a minor

The school has the right to not excuse patterns of absences (even with parent notes) perceived as excessive and inhibiting a students’ access to their academics and at such times will contact the family and request written doctors note/statement.  If parents do not provide doctor notes or if the doctor note does not provide the above information, the absences will be an “unexcused”, and be subject to the same Becca polices and procedures as other unexcused absences.