Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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Hourly attendance policy One ol the many jobs of office runners is to pick up the absence lists English teacher. Mrs Jean Allen hangs the every hour and record the absences on students permanent files, as absence list for one of her classes Mariln Jones and Julie Kiser are doing It’s fourth hour, you have a test and you didn’t study, so you just won’t go. Besides that they don’t take attendance fourth, so there is no way you can get caught, right? Wrong! In the past attendance was only reported to the office once a day, and it was quite easy to skip. However, the faculty and administration put an abrupt end to the “skippers” fun by revising the attendance policy. Now absences are turned into the main office every hour, and it’s easy to spot kids who have cut class. The new policy has proven itself very effective. During the first semester of the 78-79 year there were 507 withdrawals failing. In 1979-80 this number was cut to 185. Along with this the average daily attendance increased 2.99%. 4 Introduction Attendance

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on students, athletes. Restrooms closed due to vandalism are a nuisance to everyone While talking on the phone, lumor Amy Shea examines the patches in the wall including Charmaine Bucher Below, listening to Coach Debrular are covering Tina Galloway. Lyn Mulgrew. Tracy Grubb and Molly Rogers

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netted skippers, and Attendance secretary, Mrs Yvonne Crooks makes an attendance list from the absence lists as Asst Principal Howard Hull discusses the new attendance policy with seniors John Toby and Margaret O’Connell Introduction Attendance 5