The policy states that no student shall participate in an Independent Study contract of less than five days. All absences of less than five consecutive days shall be treated procedurally as absences due to illness. This means that if your child is absent from one to four days, no matter what the reason, Independent Study contracts will not be issued.
Students can get missed work by calling a friend, or having a friend bring the work home.
Students can request an Independent Study contract for absences of five to ten days. The request must be made two school days in advance and all work must be returned on the day that the student returns to school. Students who do not return the work will not be provided with future Independent Study contracts. In the past, teachers have spent an enormous amount of time preparing Independent Study contracts for absences of one to four days. This new policy will free teachers to concentrate on lesson planning and classroom instruction.