• The interests and needs of part-time students may be taken into account, but the law does not require a school or school district to make any scheduling or other adjustments to accommodate students wishing to attend part-time. 

• Many local boards of education have adopted policies on part-time attendance to provide for the orderly, efficient, and safe conduct in the district's schools; not for the purpose of preventing or restricting part-time enrollment.

• Public school districts should establish "check in" and "check out" procedures to ensure that all part-time students are accounted for during the school day.

Transportation of Part-Time Students

A parent, guardian or other person having custody or control of a student enrolled part-time must arrange, when necessary, for transportation among the schools in which the student is enrolled with the following exception:

• A part-time student may be transported on a public school bus from the student's home to a public school if his/her part-time enrollment in the public school begins when the school day begins. The student may also be transported by public school bus from a public school to the student's home if the student's part-time attendance ends when the school day ends.

Average Daily Attendance for State Foundation Aid

The portion of the day during which a resident, part-time student is enrolled in and attends public school is counted in the same manner for state aid as any other student. A student is counted only for the period of time that he/she is in actual attendance at school.

Athletics and other Extra-Curricular and Co-Curricular Activities

The Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) governs student eligibility for participation in many extra-curricular activities. To be eligible to participate in MSHSAA sanctioned events, MSHSAA requires students in its member schools to be enrolled for a certain number of hours. Non-MSHSAA extra-curricular and co-curricular activities are governed by local school board policy.

Missouri Laws 167.031 – School attendance compulsory, who may be excused — nonattendance, penalty — … » LawServer

1.  Every parent, guardian or other person in this state having charge, control or custody of a child not enrolled in a public, private, parochial, parish school or full-time equivalent attendance in a combination of such schools and between the ages of seven years and the compulsory attendance age for the district is responsible for enrolling the child in a program of academic instruction which complies with subsection 2 of this section.  Any parent, guardian or other person who enrolls a child between the ages of five and seven years in a public school program of academic instruction shall cause such child to attend the academic program on a regular basis, according to this section.   Nonattendance by such child shall cause such parent, guardian or other responsible person to be in violation of the provisions of section 167.061, except as provided by this section. A parent, guardian or other person in this state having charge, control, or custody of a child between the ages of seven years of age and the compulsory attendance age for the district shall cause the child to attend regularly some public, private, parochial, parish, home school or a combination of such schools not less than the entire school term of the school which the child attends; except that:

 (1)  A child who, to the satisfaction of the superintendent of public schools of the district in which he resides, or if there is no superintendent then the chief school officer, is determined to be mentally or physically incapacitated may be excused from attendance at school for the full time required, or any part thereof;

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 167.031

• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Guardian: if used in a section in a context relating to property rights or obligations, means conservator of the estate as defined in Missouri Laws 1.020
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

 (2)  A child between fourteen years of age and the compulsory attendance age for the district may be excused from attendance at school for the full time required, or any part thereof, by the superintendent of public schools of the district, or if there is none then by a court of competent jurisdiction, when legal employment has been obtained by the child and found to be desirable, and after the parents or guardian of the child have been advised of the pending action; or

 (3)  A child between five and seven years of age shall be excused from attendance at school if a parent, guardian or other person having charge, control or custody of the child makes a written request that the child be dropped from the school’s rolls.

 2.  (1)  As used in sections 167. 031 to 167.071, a “home school” is a school, whether incorporated or unincorporated, that:

 (a)  Has as its primary purpose the provision of private or religious-based instruction;

 (b)  Enrolls pupils between the ages of seven years and the compulsory attendance age for the district, of which no more than four are unrelated by affinity or consanguinity in the third degree; and

 (c)  Does not charge or receive consideration in the form of tuition, fees, or other remuneration in a genuine and fair exchange for provision of instruction.

 (2)  As evidence that a child is receiving regular instruction, the parent shall, except as otherwise provided in this subsection:

 (a)  Maintain the following records:

 a.  A plan book, diary, or other written record indicating subjects taught and activities engaged in; and

 b.  A portfolio of samples of the child’s academic work; and

 c.  A record of evaluations of the child’s academic progress; or

 d.   Other written, or credible evidence equivalent to subparagraphs a., b. and c.; and

 (b)  Offer at least one thousand hours of instruction, at least six hundred hours of which will be in reading, language arts, mathematics, social studies and science or academic courses that are related to the aforementioned subject areas and consonant with the pupil’s age and ability.  At least four hundred of the six hundred hours shall occur at the regular home school location.

 (3)  The requirements of subdivision (2) of this subsection shall not apply to any pupil above the age of sixteen years.

 3.  Nothing in this section shall require a private, parochial, parish or home school to include in its curriculum any concept, topic, or practice in conflict with the school’s religious doctrines or to exclude from its curriculum any concept, topic, or practice consistent with the school’s religious doctrines.  Any other provision of the law to the contrary notwithstanding, all departments or agencies of the state of Missouri shall be prohibited from dictating through rule, regulation or other device any statewide curriculum for private, parochial, parish or home schools.

 4.  A school year begins on the first day of July and ends on the thirtieth day of June following.

 5.  The production by a parent of a daily log showing that a home school has a course of instruction which satisfies the requirements of this section or, in the case of a pupil over the age of sixteen years who attended a metropolitan school district the previous year, a written statement that the pupil is attending home school in compliance with this section shall be a defense to any prosecution under this section and to any charge or action for educational neglect brought pursuant to chapter 210.

 6.  As used in sections 167.031 to 167.051, the term “compulsory attendance age for the district” shall mean:

 (1)  Seventeen years of age for any metropolitan school district for which the school board adopts a resolution to establish such compulsory attendance age; provided that such resolution shall take effect no earlier than the school year next following the school year during which the resolution is adopted; and

 (2)  Seventeen years of age or having successfully completed sixteen credits towards high school graduation in all other cases.   

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The school board of a metropolitan school district for which the compulsory attendance age is seventeen years may adopt a resolution to lower the compulsory attendance age to sixteen years; provided that such resolution shall take effect no earlier than the school year next following the school year during which the resolution is adopted.

 7.  For purposes of subsection 2 of this section as applied in subsection 6 herein, a “completed credit towards high school graduation” shall be defined as one hundred hours or more of instruction in a course.  Home school education enforcement and records pursuant to this section, and sections 210.167 and 211.031, shall be subject to review only by the local prosecuting attorney.

How many days can you miss school without a certificate in 2022

Author Ekaterina Novitskaya For reading 7 min Views 35.9k. Posted by 08/20/2021

A child may miss school for family reasons or stay at home due to a slight illness. In what cases will he have to receive a certificate from a pediatrician confirming that the student is healthy, and when can he do without it?

Consider how many days you can miss school without a certificate, are absenteeism allowed and what is the threat?

Contents

What has changed in 2021

The allowable number of days of absence from school and kindergarten is regulated by sanitary rules - SanPins. These norms regulate the rules for organizing the educational process and are designed to prevent infectious diseases among students and pupils. For example, how teachers should behave when a child shows signs of illness, what precautions to take, and when the school should request a health certificate for admission to classes.

In 2021, a new SanPin SP 2.4.3648-20 "Sanitary and epidemiological requirements for organizations of education and training, recreation and rehabilitation of children and youth" began to operate. The updated rules will apply until 2027, including 2022.

Allowed number of days to miss school without a certificate

For family reasons

New SanPin 2021 does not contain a direct answer to the question of how long you can not go to school without a certificate from a pediatrician. The Fundamental Law "On Education" also does not regulate the number of days allowed to miss school without visiting a doctor.

But this does not mean that even after one day of absence, the child needs to receive a certificate stating that he is healthy. On the other hand, from SanPin, it does not follow that if you miss classes for family reasons, a certificate from a pediatrician is not needed in principle.

Some educational institutions misunderstand health regulations and have begun to require a certificate for every pass. If your institution has such requirements, ask to see the document on which they are based. If there is no such document, then the claims are unfounded.

Since there is no answer to the question of how much school can be missed in the sanitary rules, parents can be guided by the deadlines contained in the school's local acts. The right of an educational organization to approve its own internal regulations is based on paragraph 3 of Article 28 of the Law on Education. By the way, most schools continue to adhere to the tacit "3 or 5 days" principle of regarding the permitted absence from classes without a certificate.

If the local acts of schools also do not contain an indication of the allowable duration of absences, you can also take into account:

1. 5 days (excluding holidays and weekends) - it contains a letter of recommendation from the Ministry of Health in 2020, which continues to be valid and in 2022.
2. "Reasonable Time" from the Civil Code. The principle of reasonableness applies when legislative acts do not provide for specific deadlines.

If a child has been absent from school for longer than expected (for example, more than 5 days), he needs to obtain a certificate of absence of contacts with infectious patients and on the state of health.

due to illness

Clause 2.9.4 of SanPiN SP 2.4.3648-20 clearly states that if the pass was associated with illness or indisposition, then a certificate from the pediatrician will be required in any case, regardless of the number of missed days.

Even if the child missed one day due to a slight illness, the doctor must confirm that the student has no contraindications to attend classes. The medical certificate for the school must state the diagnosis and duration of illness.

For reference. In the fall of 2021, paper certificates from a doctor for schools were canceled in Moscow. Now information about illness, duration and exemptions from physical education and other activities is automatically received from the clinic into the EMIAS.School system and is available to teachers on the day the sick leave opens.

When a school certificate is needed and when not

So, the question of the need to visit a doctor and obtain a certificate before starting school can be resolved as follows:

No certificate is needed	Help needed
The child missed classes due to family reasons. Permissible deadlines for missing without a certificate may contain local acts of the school, or parents can focus on a period of 5 days from the recommendations of the Ministry of Education or on “reasonable terms” from the Civil Code.	If the pass was due to illness, before school you need to go to the clinic and get a certificate from the doctor. Help is needed even if one day is missed due to a slight indisposition.

Can they be expelled from school for absenteeism

A complete list of grounds for excluding a child from school is listed in Article 61 of the Federal Law “On Education”. Among them:

• parents' initiative, including when transferring to another organization;
• if the child was enrolled in school illegally;
• at the initiative of the school in the event of a disciplinary sanction being applied to a student over 15 years old if he cannot master the educational program;
• due to circumstances that do not depend on the will of the student, his parents and the school itself - for example, if the school is liquidated.

Thus, absenteeism alone is not grounds for expelling a child from school. Especially if the child misses classes for a good reason. But if we are talking about systematic absenteeism (missing without a good reason) and they have become the cause of academic failure, then the child may be expelled. But only on condition that he is over 15 years old.

If the child is regularly missed, additional control may be established to prevent him from lagging behind.

You may be interested in: What are the grounds for expelling a child from school: absenteeism, absenteeism, poor progress, bad behavior?

How to write a school absence report

To prove that there is a good reason for absenteeism, a parent can submit an application stating that the child is expected to be absent from school. The document is drawn up in the name of the school principal or class teacher until missed classes .

The application must state the reason for absence . This may be the general wording “for family reasons” or a specific good reason:

• participation in sports competitions;
• undergoing diagnostic examinations or a course of rehabilitation after an illness;
• weddings, funerals, court hearings;
• the need to look after relatives;
• weather conditions.

Also, the application must indicate:

• full name of the parent and student;
• class in which the child is studying;
• duration of absence;
• parent's signature;
• date of application.

In some schools, applications are asked to be accompanied by an inscription stating that they are responsible for the life and health of the student and the passage of educational material (based on paragraph 2 of article 63 of the Family Code).

Where and how to complain about the school

If the school has set unreasonable deadlines for submitting certificates (such as requesting a document after a one-day absence) or asking for unnecessary tests (such as taking a coronavirus test before admission to classes), parents can complain to the school.

The complaint is made in free form and can be addressed to the following authorities:

• management, committee, department of education in the region;
• local department of Rosobrnadzor;
• regional division of Rospotrebnadzor.

In a complaint against a school, you should indicate:

• the name of the institution to which it is transferred;
• school name;
• Full name of the parent, his address and contact details for communication;
• full name of the child;
• violations committed by the school;
• requirements for the elimination of violations.
• The complaint must also contain the date and signature of the complainant.

You can download a sample complaint against a school here.

Summary

1. The new SanPin 2021 does not regulate the issue of how long you can miss school without a certificate for family reasons.
2. The school must approve the allowable number of days of absence not due to illness in a local document. If the school does not regulate this issue in any way, you can focus on terms of 5 days or reasonable terms from the Civil Code.
3. According to current regulations, a certificate from a pediatrician is always needed when you miss classes due to illness, regardless of the number of days of absence.
4. So that absences are not equated with absenteeism, parents must write an application addressed to the director or class teacher about upcoming absenteeism.
5. A child cannot be expelled for missing school for a good reason.

If the school makes inadequate demands on the presentation of certificates, then you can complain about its actions to Rosobrnadzor and Rospotrebnadzor.

One day at an American school: A typical day at a US public school

Not all of us can afford to pay for a private boarding school in the US. However, if you're willing to spend a little more time finding housing for your high school kid, or if you're moving to the US together and looking for a day school, public schools are great for you!

In this article, we'll walk you through a typical day at Harris Elementary School, St. Louis, Missouri.

The famous yellow buses "picking up" children on the route to the campus arrive around 8:30-8:40. Often in schools, the day begins with a general meeting - this is also the case at Harris Elementary School: the tradition of daily morning assemblies was introduced by the new director Tyson Plumlee.

I introduced these assemblies when I came to Harris Elementary a year ago. It seems right to me that in the morning the whole school should come together so that the children can see both the teachers and each other. In addition, we can discuss our common affairs and problems, wish each other a happy birthday together, this unites us, and helps me as a director to remain a leader.

The main task of the principal, in addition to the safety of the school, is to create such conditions that children and teachers care only about personal achievements and work, and all other problems must be solved. This concerns not only material tasks, equipment, buildings, but also the creation of a climate, an atmosphere of friendship and trust. It should be a pleasure for children, teachers, and parents to come to school. It is important to understand that here they will find support.

Schoolchildren are seated according to the division into classes - the director welcomes them, offers to sing the first verse of the American anthem, and then proceeds to the news: what is for lunch today, what awaits schoolchildren during the week, who should be praised and rewarded and for what, who has today is my birthday, in what competitions will Harris Elementary School participate in the near future. After the meeting is over, the children go to classes: by the way, here they are not “first A” or “2B”, but “Miss Jenkins' class”, etc. - Each class has its own teacher.

The beginning of a school day is almost always two main subjects:

• Mathematics
• English (writing, reading, speaking tasks).

Students go to the cafeteria around noon. Someone has lunch in a common dining room, someone has lunch at home: as a rule, these are parents who follow a certain diet in the family (there may be vegetarians, allergies, adherents of a healthy lifestyle or religious prescriptions).

15 minutes are allotted for lunch, and the rest of the big break is spent in the yard: playing, running, jumping rope or playing ball. Half an hour later they return to their classrooms.

After lunch, junior schoolchildren are waiting for additional lessons:

• As a rule, this is the primary course of natural sciences - "The World around"
• Music and physical education (both subjects are given equal attention, often they alternate weekly)
• Electives (eg computer literacy). You can sing in the school choir or play musical instruments, there are also academic clubs - for example, for math lovers. But, as a rule, they are not every day (1-2 per week), so that the children do not overwork.

Lessons end closer to 15:30 - students move to reading rooms and libraries, from where, upon invitation, they already go to the arrived buses.

In elementary grades in the United States, homework, as we are used to, is usually not assigned - most likely the student will receive homework, and based on a week:

• several mathematical problems
• reading log, 20 minutes a day, that is 400 minutes a month). The reading log contains the titles of books, how much and when it was read, parents help to keep it
• letters of recommendation from teachers: what you should pay extra attention to, what tasks to help the kid with, what to work out again and repeat.

Calls here are not given the same attention as in Russian schools: in fact, it rings twice a day - at the beginning and end of the day, but it does not serve as an unambiguous signal for anyone. Teachers manage the time and schedule of classes themselves.

The primary school system usually includes a zero, preparatory class - here it is more often called a kindergarten: kids who are 5 years old by August 1 of the current year are accepted into it.

The school has a lot of rules that look at children from almost all walls: no one tells anyone off with loud cries - the children themselves, clearly, get used to the routine and customs.

• The class usually moves together, in an approximate line along the corridor, carefully letting those coming towards them
• You can run, sing loudly, laugh and talk only during a big break (the only one in the day). There are other short breaks, but they are held in the classroom, more quietly: you can chat with classmates, draw, play a board game, have a snack.
• You can find a place to study at any convenient point in the room, move your desk
• There are rules of conduct in the classroom and in the dining room, in the hallway and on the playground, when boarding and disembarking from the school bus.

According to the director, the task of the school is to educate, not to drill children:

One of the main tasks of the school is to teach children how to behave with each other and with adults. And to know the rules of conduct: how to live in society, how to communicate with other people.

The rules are slightly relaxed at the end of the school year, in the second week of May. Usually they are arranged thematically: teachers are congratulated (they are given gifts and letters, they arrange performances), the school is designed according to an invented scenario, and schoolchildren can come to class in their favorite and comfortable clothes, even if it is pajamas with Spider-Man (private schools for this parameter is treated much more strictly).

Yes, there are tests, but these are not strict exams: they should check how easy it is for the student to learn the program, whether the teacher copes with teaching or he needs to correct the course. Basically, these are tasks in mathematics and the basic English course (“the art of communication”, or Communication art).

Public school curricula and assessments are unified and approved by the city or state. The teacher can add his own touches and individual details, select new teaching aids for lessons, but the base must be the same:

In our country, quite often people move from region to region, and it should be easy for a child to get involved in the learning process at a new school, so the core of knowledge is the same for everyone.

The pros and cons of standardized tests such as our Unified State Examination are also being debated in America - the question is too ambiguous:

“How to combine the desire for good results in tests with an individual approach to the child, with the desire to give knowledge, and not to coach on the test? This is our challenge, and here a lot depends on the teacher, and the principal's role is to support teachers and children and keep the focus on the needs of the child, ”Kate Schulter, university teacher and supervisor of the headmaster of the Harris Elementary School.

For kids, all marks are only positive:

1. in the process of mastering the basic level
2. mastered the basic level
3. mastered the basic level well and understood
4. the child understood the basic level and can explain it to others in his own words (a rather rare assessment is approximately “excellent with a plus”).

In addition, teachers actively use additional marks like awesome, good, good job. Estimates are ambiguous: for example, a teacher can put "2" and next to mark "Brilliant!" - this means that before the student basically received "ones", and now he has risen to a higher level, and the teacher wants to encourage him.

Grades are given regularly, quarterly and yearly. There are subjects for which marks are given for different sections (for example, in mathematics, a student can receive several different points - for multiplication / division / geometric shapes and spatial thinking / understanding of perimeter and area), and the average mark in such cases is usually not displayed. The behavior of a small student is also evaluated “separately” - there are usually 5-6 key points here.

If a child has excellent grades and the teacher suspects great potential in him, he is tested under the Gift and talented program. This is a special course for gifted children - somewhere the level of complexity is increased, somewhere the range of knowledge considered - and it is not offered by every school in the district. For example, Harris Elementary School is responsible for Gift and Talent in their district.

Harris Elementary School Methodist Cara Canning considers reading to be one of the most important aspects of elementary school education:

Reading is the foundation of education in elementary grades. If you cannot read and work with information, you cannot learn. In middle and high school, children will have to do a lot of work on their own, for this we must raise good readers.

Earlier in the USA there were common readers with common tests and questions for them for everyone, but children are different, and they like different topics, different stories. Also, no two students are on the same level. My task is, together with the school librarian, to select books for everyone, those that may interest them, evoke a response. And make sure that they build up their competence as a reader. Today we do not have a single collection of texts for everyone. Chooses a teacher, a librarian, a specialist like me, if he is in the school. Some may never read Shakespeare. Of course, every day in the classes there is both joint reading and discussion with the teacher, but once a week at the library lesson everyone will try to help choose “his book”. Summer is coming, we will have a reading summer camp, organized in conjunction with the children's library. Teachers will work there on a volunteer basis.

I can't say that we here in Missouri have learned to instill a love of reading in all children and compete with video games. It's too much of a challenge, but that's my goal. The next year, my main task was to work with my parents. Studies have shown that the most critical age for reading is grades 2-3. Children already know how to read, parents stop reading aloud, which means that discussions and conversations about the book disappear, and children first remain in place, and then begin to lag behind in the development of their reading competencies.

It is logical that there are many children in American schools who come from other countries: for example, Harris Elementary School has 70 students in 17 different languages! The school has a specialist, Ms. Sheets, who helps kids integrate into the English-speaking world. Every day for half an hour they master the program "English as a foreign language", supervised by a specialist in regular lessons in the classroom, helping as needed. Moreover, sometimes Americans themselves need help: getting used to reading a lot and understanding what they read can be difficult.

Such textbooks do not always exist: most often, parents receive weekly something like a summary, a report on what was studied at school, with examples of tasks and options for reinforcing tasks. According to the director, the well-coordinated work of the school and parents is the key to the child's success:

You understand that motivation to study is not only the school's business. Here we can create conditions, we can support, guide, look for approaches to children. But it is the parents who are often the main factor motivating children, especially in middle and high school, when students can choose the level of difficulty and the number of subjects. Of course, sometimes children prefer to choose the minimum, especially during adolescence. But the parent can influence the student, and the school counselor can assess the possibilities.

Education in the US works like a powerful social lift, so often parents even move to another area/city/state to enroll their child in a good school. They are even willing to pay more for housing, mortgages and other expenses: they understand that all this goes to local taxes, which, in turn, are responsible for funding the district's public schools and ensuring that the chosen school is of good quality.

Russian parents and students are constantly surprised that in the USA children do not study in the same class with the same class teacher throughout their entire elementary/middle/high school. Every year, the students are mixed up, and a new teacher is assigned to them - the “teacher of the second grade”, etc. So the American education system seeks to solve several problems at once:

• save children from bullying, possible ridicule and bullying, increase their socialization
• enable everyone to find a teacher who is ideally suited, motivating, inspiring
• creating a general positive atmosphere. Classes are always mixed so that they are homogeneous and approximately equal: there is no such thing that “a-shki” are the smartest, but “ve-shki” are lagging behind, they stuffed everyone in there, No: classes are formed based on academic performance and behavior, the number of gifted and talented children, foreigners and Americans (foreigners even evenly distribute ethnic variants), by sex and age.

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