(The below email was sent to all families on 11/8/21. Click here to read the entire message on our website.)
We are exceptionally grateful for your continued caution this year as you keep students home if they are not feeling well. One impact of this (in addition to keeping us all healthier) is that the attendance tracking workload is much heavier than it has ever been.
To manage this increased workload while still preserving the integrity of our communications around attendance, we are instituting a few changes effective Tuesday, November 9th.
Robo-Texts
At 9am, we will be sending robo-texts to caregivers of ALL students marked absent, whether or not we’ve heard from you. This notification will let you know if your child is not at school for attendance in the first hour.
If you have already reported your absence, you do not need to do anything.
If you haven’t reported the absence at this point, send an email to attendance@greatriverschool.org to let us know the reason for the absence.
Any student with an absence that was not reported by a caregiver will be marked as “Unexcused.”
Want to opt-out of all texts from the school? This video shows you how to manage your alert preferences. We want to hear from you if your student is absent. The reason for the absence is important so that we can help support your student if necessary.