How do North Carolina non-public schools deal with excessive student absence and tardiness issues?
G.S. 115C-554 and 562 exempt North Carolina non-public schools from the student attendance and tardiness requirements of North Carolina’s public schools. However, every North Carolina non-public school must operate on a regular schedule for at least nine calendar months each year and require its students to regularly attend classes. See G.S. 115C- 548 and 556. Each North Carolina non-public school establishes its own policies and procedures for handling excessive student absence and tardiness situations and usually distributes a published copy of them annually to each school family. The document specifies the maximum number of days (or times) a student may be absent (or tardy) during any given school year. The publication should also state what will happen to the student should he/she exceed the maximum number of absences or tardies allowed by the school. It would usually state that the student may be permanently expelled from the school once the maximum permissible number of days or t
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