September is Attendance Awareness Month!

RTE will be observing Attendance Awareness month in an effort to increase attendance...which will increase student performance!

Did you know?

• Students with good attendance do better in school than those with poor attendance, beginning in elementary school and all the way through high school.
• Preschool and Kindergarten students with high absences are more likely to struggle reading on grade level by the 3rd grade.
• Too many absences in one classroom can slow down instruction for other students, who must wait for the teacher to repeat lessons for students who have missed school.
• Excessive excused and unexcused absences - including late arrivals and early dismissals - can add up to lost instructional time from the classroom.