attendance officer
School presence monitor
An attendance officer is a school official responsible for monitoring student absences and enforcing compulsory education laws.
They investigate truancy, contact families of chronically absent students, and may initiate legal proceedings against parents who fail to ensure their children attend school.
Also called a truant officer.
- truancy lawsStatutes mandating school presence
- home visitsService delivered at residence
- welfare checkVisit to confirm someone's okay
- compulsory educationLaw-required learning for minors
- school boardLocal education governing body
teacher · legal notices · social worker · principal · school counselor · skip class · missing school · chronic absence · family counseling · parent-teacher conferences · community resources · phone calls · school policies · knock on door · at-risk youth · after-school programs · peer mentoring · mental health services
- schoolingelementary school, school, middle school, high school, primary schools
- school attendanceabsence, absences, truancy, tardy, excused
- school staffteacher, teachers, principal, professor, librarian
- School Administrationprincipals, vice principal, school boards, assistant principal, headmaster
- school administratorsschool principal, headmaster, headmistress, superintendent, principal
- school personnelteacher, principal, vice principal, superintendent, headmaster
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