As required by Colorado State Law and BVSD Policy, students are expected to attend every day that school is in session. For further information in the District’s Attendance Policies (JH and JH-R), please refer to the Student Rights and Responsibilities Guide and State Law (C.R.S. 22-33-104), which require attendance at school for all students until the age of seventeen.
 

If you need to report an absence for your student , please contact our Fairview High School Attendance line at 720-561-5352 

Speaking slowly, please leave a detailed voicemail with the following information:

• Student's first and last name
• Student's grade
• Date of absence
• Reason for absence. 
• Be sure to include your name, phone number, and relationship to student. 

If you need to provide documentation for the absence (doctor/dentist note or appointment), please have your student drop it by the attendance desk at the main office,  attach it to the attendance email this information to fairview.attendance@bvsd.org

Parents and Guardians may excuse the student’s day out of school, up to ten days without documentation.  We strongly recommend parents calling on the day of the absence to excuse their student. If it is not possible to call on the day of absence, a call must be made within two days (48 hours) after the absence or it will remain unexcused. 

Excused absences include:

• Temporary illness or injury
• Extended absences due to physical, mental, or emotional disability
• Medical or dental appointments that cannot be scheduled outside of the regular school day (documentation from care provider required)
• Absences directly related to the primary handicapping condition of an identified handicapped student
• Emergency, serious illness, or death in the family
• An absence that occurs when the student is in the custody of court of law enforcement authorities
• Absences due to suspension (in accordance with state law)
• An absence resulting from participation in a work/study program, field trip, or athletic competition under the supervision of school
• Extremely inclement weather
• Participation in religious observances
• An absence that is approved by an administrator of the school

Pre-arranged absences are for planned, future events. These are events that take your student out of school for partial or full days and include such things as college trips, special family activities, non-school athletics, weddings, funerals, or recitals.

●       Have your student come to the attendance desk or find on-line a Prearranged Absence Form before the event.

●      The form has to be signed by the student, a parent, and all his/her teachers.

We prefer that you turn in the form two (2) days prior to the absence.

Please remember that per the attendance policy, parents cannot excuse single period absences. For the single period absence (or any number of periods less than the full day) to be excused, we need documentation. 

Excusing single period absences (anything less than a FULL day):

• Only a doctor’s note, dentist note, DMV, court appearance, passport etc. can generally excuse single period absences.
•  In accordance with school policy, please send documentation notes after the appointment. Emails or screenshots of texts reminding students of upcoming appointments are not accepted. 
• Once the note is received  it will take 24 to 48 hours to clear in IC.
• Please ask the doctor to specify the time of beginning and end of appointment if the student will return to school.
• A pre-arranged absence form can also be used to excuse your student for one or more periods during the school day. It is available for download from the Fairview website, or your student can pick one up in person at the attendance desk in the main office. Upon completing and signing it, your student can turn it in to me.

 Exceptions: Inclement weather or other isolated exceptions at the discretion of the Principal and Assistant Principals.

Notes to be used as documentation cannot be written by the student’s Parents/Guardians. This includes the first and last periods of the day.

Please, be aware that attendance receives a great deal of calls and emails that are handled in a timely manner. Our automated system will send alerts regarding the student's absence until the excuse is entered in Infinity Campus. We appreciate your patience.

Students who become ill during the school day must report to the Health office. 

Our Health Room Para will evaluate the nature of the illness and assist in contacting the parent/guardian for transportation home.

 Only the Health Aide can excuse your student from classes missed, which is why it is important to speak with the health aide first. 

Parents/Guardians or the listed emergency contact person(s) are the only adults who can pick up a student from school in case of illness. Students who do not follow this procedure and go home on their own without permission from the health aide will be marked absent. Per school policy, we cannot excuse your student after the fact.

If your student is in class but marked absent.  We ask students to be responsible for their attendance with our Attendance Correction Slip.

 In the event that your student disagrees with the attendance mark, please have them come to the attendance desk in the front office and obtain an " Attendance Correction Slip”

Students hand this to their teachers and ask them to sign off and mark the attendance correctly. Once the teacher signs the slip off, the student brings the note to the attendance desk and we will mark the record accordingly.

Once your student has reached  the limit of absences that we are able to excuse without some type of documentation for future absences (we no longer can take a call from a parent). Per BVSD board policy, once your child reaches either ten days total or ten absences for any single period, you must have documentation for us to be able to excuse your child's absence.

Examples of approved documentation:

• ·  Doctor
• ·  Health care provider
• ·  Mental health professional
• ·  Dentist or orthodontist
• ·  Court & Govt related

There may be extenuating circumstances where your child is able to be excused in spite of the ten absence limit but those cases are rare and must be approved in concert with the school.

If you have questions, please contact one of our office administrators:

Kristine Keel (Contact if your student’s last name begins with the letter A- Han)

 Ross Sutter (Contact if your student’s last name begins with the letter Hao-Par)

Ina Rodriguez-Myer (Contact if your student’s last name begins with the letter Pas-Z)

Thank you for calling to excuse your student and we apologize for the inconvenience of getting calls after the excusal.

Please, rest assured  that we did receive the excusal voicemails and emails, however as there are so many calls and emails that we receive, these are dealt with in a timely manner. Please ignore future calls from the attendance line after you leave a message or email excusing your student.

BVSD uses a robocall system to track attendance, so you will still receive alerts until we get to your position in the queue to excuse your child from school.

Please keep in mind that we have to listen and assess each case individually, so it may take  24 to 48 hours to excuse a student (depending on how busy the lines are during the week).

   You can turn off the alerts by going to your IC portal and turning off the calls and voicemails in the Communications tab, but please be aware that you will not receive school warnings, inclement weather, or emergency calls when the communications tab is turned off.