School Attendance is NOT a requirements to enroll. that attendance is immediately demanded. If, after that warning, the choice, it is the LAW. A child who is required to attend parent fails to require the child to school shall attend each school day for attend school as required by law, and the entire period the program of the child has an absence, the campus instruction is provided. Once a child will begin applying truancy prevention is enrolled as a student in measures (TPM) to the student in prekindergarten or kindergarten, accordance with Section 25.0915 of the child must attend school. the Texas Education Code. If the student continues to demonstrate Up to $100 fine for Temporary Absence: A child truancy and or the parent fails to required to attend school may be require the student maintain their the first offense excused for a temporary absence attendance, the Attendance Officer ______resulting from any cause acceptable to may file a referral to court against the the teacher, principal, superintendent parent in county, justice or municipal The law in the State of or school in which the child is enrolled. court of any precinct in the county in Texas requires that a child Education Code §25.087 which the parent resides or in which goes to school. the school is located. Texas Education Non Attendance: Students of Code §25.093—Parent Contributing To Nonattendance. In accordance with the Texas Family compulsory education age are required to be in school. The absence Code §65.002 and the Texas A child’s failure to Education Code §25.086, the of a child from school on ten or more days or parts of days within a six attend school as Compulsory Attendance law states: mandated by law may month period, without consent of parents, pursuant to Family Code constitute the offense The state of Texas requires that of Failure to Attend children who are at least six years old 52.03 (b)(2) is “conduct indicating a need for supervision” under the School, which is through their nineteenth birthday defined in the Texas Education Code attend school. State law also requires Juvenile Justice System. §25.094. that a child be five years old by September 1 to enroll in kindergarten A student absent without permission from school, from any and six years old by September 1 or has been enrolled in first grade, or class, or required tutorials, will be An offense under this section is completed kindergarten in the public considered truant and subject to schools of another state prior to disciplinary action, which may a Misdemeanor. Every student moving to the District to enroll in first include court action. should be in school and on grade. For the pre-kindergarten time. If you are skipping Consequences: If a parent fails to program, students must be four years school, you are already require the child to attend school old by September 1 of the current according to the law, the Attendance breaking the law. school year and meet other eligibility Officer shall warn the parent in writing