Please report student's absence by visiting the Lawler webpage, click on white tab "report absence" in the upper corner and complete the Google form. Please state why your child is absent, including symptoms. Please upload Dr. note on the google form. The form and doctor's note (if applicable) must be received within 3 days of your child returning to school. To expedite attendance recording, please do not send an email to the data clerk. A phone call is recorded in our system; however, it does not excuse an absence.

To be considered a religious holy day, the day should be generally recognized by the student’s religious denomination as a holy day that is required to be observed by all denomination members. Church retreats, camps, mission trips, and individual religious rites such as baptisms, christenings, bar mitzvahs, etc. are not considered holy days. Parent notes will be accepted to excuse an absence for the purpose of observing a religious holy day

Texas Education Code allows for three days of absence — one day for the religious holy day and one day of travel to and from the location where the celebration is taking place. Frisco ISD has a local policy to allow additional travel days to be excused. For out-of-the-country travel, FISD will allow an additional two days for travel before and after the verified holy day. For events in the country, FISD will allow one additional day of travel before and after.

Please click on the Student Absence Request Form for Religious Holiday.  

It is the responsibility of the student and/or parent to collect missed assignments due to an absence.  It is recommended that students and parents check Canvas for assignments and reach out to each teacher for additional guidance. Each student is responsible for completing all make-up work. Students are allowed one day to make up assignments for each day absent.

If a student misses an assessment, it is the responsibility of the student to schedule a time with the teacher to make up the assessment.  Students may also need to attend tutorials with teachers when they return for additional instruction missed during the absence.  If the student was aware of an assignment deadline before the absence occurred, the assignment or project is due upon the student’s return to school. Special long-term student projects may be required to be turned in on the due date regardless of student attendance at school.

To receive credit in a class, a student must attend at least 90 percent of the days the class is offered. A student is in violation of the 90% attendance law if they accumulate 9 or more excused or unexcused absences in any given class per semester or 18 for the year. Students who are in violation of the attendance code and who fail to make up the time required to be in compliance with the law will be denied credit for that class for the semester.

When students reach three and seven days of unexcused absences (in any class period) they will receive a truancy warning letter and be placed on an Attendance Improvement Plan at seven days. Truancy will be filed for students who have 10 or more unexcused absences.

Regular and punctual attendance is the greatest single factor in school success; therefore, a student’s first concern should be to attend class regularly. Being unnecessarily absent from school impairs a student’s opportunity to succeed in studies and also indirectly encourages the development of poor attitudes toward schoolwork and other obligations. That being said, we do understand that there are extenuating circumstances that can cause a family to choose for their student to be absent. Some of those are unplanned, such as a death in the family. Others are planned, such as a trip or vacation. We strongly discourage students being absent for the purpose of vacations. A significant part of the learning process occurs in direct instruction from the teacher and the interaction between students and teachers within the classroom; worksheets and other assignments cannot take the place of these essential interactions in the classroom.

If, after considering the information above, a family deems it necessary for their student to be absent from school: