School Attendance Is NOT a Choice, It Is the LAW. up to $100
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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 Code §25.093—Parent Contributing To Non Attendance: Students of compulsory education age are Nonattendance. In accordance with the Texas Family Code §65.002 and the Texas required to be in school. The absence of a child from school on ten or more A child’s failure to Education Code §25.086, the attend school as Compulsory Attendance law states: days or parts of days within a six month period, without consent of mandated by law may constitute the offense The state of Texas requires that parents, pursuant to Family Code 52.03 (b)(2) is “conduct indicating a of Failure to Attend children who are at least six years old School, which is through their nineteenth birthday need for supervision” under the Juvenile Justice System. defined in the Texas Education Code attend school. State law also requires §25.094. that a child be five years old by A student absent without September 1 to enroll in kindergarten and six years old by September 1 or permission from school, from any 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 .