Processes, Policies, & Structures

I've been fortunate to have been involved with changes in policies, processes and structures at Eaton Elementary School. I was directly involved with implementing a tardy policy in November 2010 due to the excessive tardies were occurring in over 1/4 of our students. Since the implementation of the tardy policy, our excessive tardies has reduced significantly. For example, we had 75 students with three or more tardies within a nine week period prior to the implementation of the tardy policy. Since implementation, the numbers has significantly reduced to 23. Our chronic tardies (30+ per nine week) went from eight to zero students. Again, that is a significant decline.

Eaton Elementary School - Tardy Policy: Students with more than three unexcused tardies in a nine week period will be assigned an after school detention from 2:10 p.m. until 3:30 p.m.  For each unexcused tardy after three, an additional after school detention will be assigned.  For example, if a child is tardy for the 4th time in a nine week period they will be assigned an after school detention.  If they are tardy a 5th time, they will be assigned another after school detention and so on.  It will be the responsibility of the parent to pick their child up at 3:30 p.m. During tardy detention students can work on homework, read, etc. Parents will be notified by phone/letter when their child has received three unexcused tardies within a nine week period. The next offense(s) will result in an after school detention that will documented by a letter to the parent.