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Student Absences
Absences Due to Quarantine
With the recently announced shortened quarantine and isolation periods, absences due to Covid-related illness or quarantine will be handled like other excused absences in Lower School. Please see the updated policies for missed work/classes for excused absences. (Criteria for excused and unexcused absences are listed below.) Lower School will not hold classes on Zoom when students are ill or placed in quarantine.
With the recently announced shortened quarantine and isolation periods, absences due to Covid-related illness or quarantine will be handled like other excused absences in Lower School. Please see the updated policies for missed work/classes for excused absences. (Criteria for excused and unexcused absences are listed below.) Lower School will not hold classes on Zoom when students are ill or placed in quarantine.
- Missed assignments will be collected daily (not in advance), and parents have the option to pick up this work for students to complete at home. iPads may be sent home for students to complete work on Seesaw or other apps.
- If you would like to pick up your daughter’s missed schoolwork, please contact her homeroom teacher. After you receive confirmation from her teacher, materials will be available for pick up after 4:00 pm in the LLARC lobby.
- If a student is unable to complete work during her absence, work can be completed upon return to School
Excused Absences
These are absences over which the student or her family has no control (illness, school-required quarantine, tragedy or death in the family, transportation breakdown, medical tests, and religious holidays).Unexcused Absences
The Hockaday School
Within the private school community, The Hockaday School is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls from grades PK–12 located in Dallas, Texas. Students realize their limitless potential through challenging academic curricula, arts, athletics, and extracurricular programs so that they are inspired to lead lives of purpose and impact.
The Hockaday School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial aid, athletic, and other policies and programs.
The Hockaday School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial aid, athletic, and other policies and programs.