POLICIES

A major factor contributing to quality education is continuous instruction. Please make sure your child attends school regularly and is absent only for illness or emergency reasons. If your child is absent, please telephone the school office the day of the absence or send a note upon your child’s return explaining the reason for the absence. For attendance records, we must know if the absence is excused or not excused. If your child has had a communicable disease, a serious injury, or medical reason that restricts activity, please have your child report to the nurse’s office before going to the classroom.

Regular school attendance is vital to student success. To report your child's absence, please email the Attendance Clerk by 9:00 a.m. the following information:€ student's full name, teacher's name, date of absence, reason for absence, caller's name and relationship to the student, a contact phone number. If you have any questions or comments, please call Ivett at (310) 725- 2136 or email the information to ivetta@wiseburn.k12.ca.us.

Dear Anza Families,

Welcome to the new school year! We are very fortunate hear at Anza to have a beautiful library filled with wonderful books. Our desire is that every student becomes a life long reader! Your student will have the opportunity to visit the Anza Library once a week with his/her class. During the classroom's library time, the students will hear a story, learn how to use the library and check out books each week. Your student is responsible for bringing these books back every week for their library time. These are times when students forget their books on their scheduled library time...please knwo that we do not have overdue fines. However, as a reminder, we will send home an overdue notice when a book has not been returned for several weeks.

If for any reason a library book is lost, damaged or stolen, you and your student are then responsible to replace that book. If your child does lose, damage, or have a book stolen, your family will be sent a bill to replace the lost book. In addition to the cost of the book, it has now become necessary to charge a processing fee of $5.00 to pay for the additional charges incurred form replacing the book. At this time, the library does not have funds available to purchase lost, damaged or stolen books.

We are now asking that parents and students sign a library agreement indicating that they will be responsible for the books checked out of the Anza Library. By signing the agreement, you and your student are agreeing to pay for any lost, damaged, or stolen books. If for any reason you do not sign the form, your child will be unable to chek out books this year. Forms have been sent home and can be picked up in front of the school office.

I look forward to sharing my love of reading and books with our students. I hope that we can work together to teach our students to be life long readers who take extra care of the books! If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to call me at (310) 725-2197

Kathy Pittluck
Anza Library

Dear Families,

We, at Anza, are fortunate in being able to offer split reading in grades K-3 as a means of helping your child attain academic success. This plan divides a classroom into two sessions whereby the teacher can work with one half of her class in order to better meet the individual language arts needs of the children. Many important factors are considered when the classroom teacher
establishes the schedule for your child. The teacher carefully studies your child's past academic history, emotional maturity, and special needs; and then places your child where these needs can best be met. Your child's educational growth is as important to us as we know it is to you. However, in order for this program to work, children must be placed in the appropriate early bird or late bird schedule. We thank you for understanding that the schedule has been developed in your child's best interest, and that constraints such as child care, work schedules and extracurricular activities should not be used as the basis for the scheduling. Therefore, as was stated in our Anza Parent/Student Handbook, we thank you for understanding that individual requests cannot be honored.

Sincerely,
Chris D. Jones, Ed.D
Principal

We need your HELP! We have parking lot procedures that are designed to provide a safe system for drop-off and pick-up for 700 students. By following these procedures, you can do your part to make sure that all our Anza students are safe.

1. Use only the Valet Line for drop-off and pick-up. The North side of the parking lot is not for drop-off or pick-up.
2. No students should be walking across the parking lot at any time, unless accompanies by an adult. Students may receive disciplinary action if they are not using proper sidewalks, walkways, and crosswalks.
3. Do not arrive early in the Valet Line, and expect that your child will be ready and waiting. Due to the size of our campus, students do not typically arrive at the line-up area until 5 minutes after their release time.
4. Allow for cars to alternate as they enter the Valet Line from Hindry. Cars making a left turn are never to block the flow of thru-traffic on Hindry.
5. Pull forward as far as possible in the Valet Line. All the way to the yellow posts. This is vital for keeping the line moving and allowing the maximum number of pick-ups at a time.
6. Do not block the Valet Line exit by trying to make a left turn onto Hindry. Please make a right turn and go around the block if traffic is backed up that far. Until you move -- nobody can move forward!
7. Remind your child to be watching for your car and ready to go at pick-up time. Ready students help keep the line moving forward.
8. Park only in assigned parking spaces. Do not block the fire lane.
9. If you are parking your car on the street, please use the pedestrian walkway to personally pic up your child. The only place to drive into the lot and pick up a student is through the Valet Line.
10. Kindergarten and TEDDE parents are asked to park and walk in the crosswalks to bring their student to the Kindergarten gate. This will allow our youngest students to become acclimated to our drop-off and pick-up process before using the valet system.

Our parking lot procedures have been created to work best for the drop-off and dismissal of hundreds of students at a time. The system is not designed to be the quickest way for one parent to drop-off/pick-up one child, but rather it is designed to be the safest way for all parents to drop-off/pick-up all children. Please remember that our staff members work very hard every day to ensure the safety of your child during drop-off and dismissal. It can be very disheartening for our teachers to have to argue with parents about parking lot rules, while trying to enforce procedures that are designed to protect all students from harm. In past isolated cases, this has escalated to verbal abuse directed towards our teachers, which is complete intolerable. We are always open to suggestions for improvement in our system, but not while we are on safety duty. Out Valet system has been lauded by many for its focus on student safety, but it only works if everyone is following the parking lot rules. We truly appreciate the vast majority of parents who patiently follow our parking lot rules, and greet the children and teachers each day with a smile on their face. Our students and staff deserve no less.

Sincerely,
Chris D. Jones, Ed.D
Principal

Please be aware that students are considered tardy if they are not in the blue doors (kindergarten in gate) by the time the bell rings. The door/gate opens ten minutes prior to the start of class. After students have accumulate five tardies, they will be expected to serve detention during their lunch recess. For the first couple of weeks of a new school year, we give all students a grace period in order to become familiar with the new routines.

Please allow time to have your child in school by the time the start bell rings. If your child is tardy, he/she will need to come to the office to receive a tardy slip to take to their class. Excused tardies will be given to any student who is late due to a doctor or dentist appointment only if they provide a note from the doctor/dentist at the time of the re-entry.

Thank you for your continued cooperation and support in this very important matter.