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Board removes strict five‑day makeup deadline from attendance policy and adds teacher discretion for extensions
Summary
The board revised language on makeup work and attendance so that students may make up missed work within five days of return but allows teachers to grant extensions at their discretion; the committee also removed a provision that reduced grades automatically for students suspended out of school.
The Rutherford County Board of Education approved revisions to its attendance and makeup-work policy intended to reflect classroom realities and to give teachers discretionary authority to grant additional time for missing assignments.
Under the revised language discussed and approved by the committee, students may make up work for credit within five days of returning from an unexcused absence; any extension beyond five days may be granted by the teacher. The committee deleted language that automatically reduced work-credit to 80 percent for certain unexcused absences and clarified that out-of-school…
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