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BLA Tardiness to School


Coming to school every day and on time is an important step in ensuring academic achievement and developing habits that will lead to productive lives. Students must make every effort to arrive to school on time. Boston Latin Academy begins at 7:20 a.m. Students should be in their homerooms by 7: 15 a.m., but no later than 7 :20 a.m. Official daily attendance is taken in homeroom at 7 :20 a.m. Students who are not in homeroom by 7 :20 a.m. are considered tardy to school.
Students should be aware that tardiness to school impacts their learning and has consequences. The following tardiness to school policy will be in effect for the 2005-2006 school year:
1.    Students will receive one day of detention for each day they are tardy to school. Detention will take place Monday through Thursday of each week. Detention will be served by the student on the afternoon of the following day detention is held. (Since no detention is held on Fridays, students who are tardy on Thursdays or Fridays must serve detention on Mondays.) Failure to attend detention constitutes leaving the building without permission, which may result in a suspension hearing. All students MUST serve detention if they are tardy. The only exception is tardiness due to a doctor’s appointment (In such a case, students must bring in an official doctor or dentist’s note), or inclement weather conditions as determined by the headmaster.
2.    Excessive tardiness, in addition to serving detention, will result in loss of school privileges. This includes, but is not limited to: attending school dances, proms, sports, Step Squad, after school activities, plays, band performances, talent nights, club performances, running for class office, etc. Students should also realize that excessive tardiness will disqualify a student for National Honor Society consideration. Loss of privileges will be in effect for 30 school days as of the fifth tardy. Disciplinary actions will also impact students’ college applications.
3.    More than four tardies per term is considered excessive. Students will lose school privileges when they incur the fifth tardy in a marking term. The loss of privileges will be in effect for 30 school days, which may carry over into the subsequent marking period.
4.    When a student incurs a fifth tardy in a marking term, his/her parents will be notified by school administrators regarding the student’s habitual tardiness to school. Parents have a responsibility to ensure that their child arrives to school on time, which means being in homeroom by 7:20 a.m. when attendance is taken.