Attendance

  • Preschool & Early Head Start
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Attendance

Research shows that there is a direct correlation between a child’s success in school and regular attendance.  Children are expected to attend their Center or Group Experience on a regular basis.  If something is preventing your child from attending Head Start/Early Head Start/GSRP, we will help you explore all options to resolve this issue. 

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”

- Nelson Mandela

Center or Group Experience

Your child should be kept at home if he/she does not feel well.  We do not want to spread colds, flu, or other communicable diseases.

5 reasons your child may be too sick for school:

  1. FEVER
    • Temperature greater than 100.4 degrees taken oral/ temporal/ under the arm/ rectal.
  2. DIARRHEA/VOMITING
    • Runny, Watery or Bloody Stools. 
    • Nausea and vomiting.
  3. RASH
    • A body rash accompanied by a fever.
  4. COUGH/SORE THROAT
    • coughing that causes a child to get red or blue in the face or makes high-pitched whooping sound after coughing.
    • Sore throat with fever.
  5. OTHER CONDITIONS
    • Eye or nose discharge: thick mucus or pus.
    • Yellowing of the skin or eyes.
    • A change from the child's baseline health.

Home Visits

In the case of a child’s illness, home visits can be done with parents/guardians only.  Please contact your home visitor when your child is sick.

Resource Links

Attendance Works is a national and state initiative that promotes better policy and practice around school attendance. We promote tracking chronic absence data for each student beginning in kindergarten, or ideally earlier, and partnering with families and community agencies to intervene when poor attendance is a problem for students or schools. (taken from www.attendanceworks.org)

Parents.com is a fun site, created by the owners of Parent’s Magazine, devoted to offering the latest information.

 

These materials were developed in part through grants awarded by the Office of Head Start and Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential.