P. S. 7 Milton Fein School

Attendance

The Key to Your Child’s Success

Schools are responsible for teaching your child. But schools can’t do their job if your child absent. Learning builds day by day. A child who misses a day of school misses a day of learning.

Research shows that children who are in school ever day do better on state tests. Studies also show that kids who are absent more often score lower on state tests.

Being late for school huts a child’s learning, too. A student who is 10 minutes late every day will miss hours of instruction during the year.

Children can copy notes or make up an assignment, but they can never get back what’s most important: the discussions, the questions, the explanations by the teacher and the thinking that makes learning come alive.

Your child’s success in school depends on having a solid educational background – one that can only be gained through regular school attendance.

When is sick too sick for school?

Send me to school if…

• I have a runny nose (clear discharge) or just a little cough, but no other symptoms.
• I haven’t taken any fever reducing medicine for 24 hours, and I haven’t had a fever during that time.
• I haven’t thrown up or had any diarrhea for 24 hours and didn’t need medicine.

Keep me at home if…

• I have a temperature higher than 100 degrees.
• I have been throwing up or have had diarrhea in the last 24 hours.
• My eyes are red and painful with discharge that keeps coming back during the day.
• I have been having body aches, fatigue or frequent headaches.
• I have a runny nose that has yellow or green discharge and a fever.
• I have a sore throat with a fever I have an undiagnosed rash.

Call the doctor if…

• I have a temperature higher than 100 degrees for more than two days.
• I have had a sore throat and fever for several days.
• I’ve been throwing up or have diarrhea for more than two days.
• I’ve had a cough for more than a week, and it isn’t getting better.
• I have had a fever and now have a rash.

To educate the whole child. To develop children who will be college and career ready, capable of clear and sound reasoning, with a life-long love of learning.

PS 7 aims to achieve this vision through:

• A rigorous academic program designed to promote college readiness;
• Small group and individualized instruction;
• A varied K-5 arts program.
• Knowing every child

7:45 a.m. - Doors open / Hot breakfast in the cafeteria (breakfast menu opens in a new window)

8:00 a.m. - Start of the school day

2:50 p. m. - Dismissal