Early Check-out and Early Dismissal:
There are no check outs after 3:45pm.  We adhere to this time strictly. Please be in the front office no later than 3:45 pm. Your name must be included in the computer system as someone the student can be released-to. You will also need a valid photo ID to enter the school and check-out your student.. 

Please have your student bring an early check-out note to the front office, upon arrival.

The note needs to include the following information:
-Student’s legal first, last name
-Homeroom teacher
-Date, specific time of pick-up
-Reason for leaving
-Signature of enrolling adult
-Name of person picking up student
**Please check your “Release to” contacts in ParentVUE.  As the enrolling adult, you manage your student contacts.  A person must be listed as a student contact with “release to” rights to pick up your student. You can find instructions on how to do so in the Resource tab of the menu on our Dickerson website, http://www.cobbk12.org/Dickerson. Look for Updating Student Contacts on ParentVUE. **

IS YOUR STUDENT COMING IN LATE?

-Please write a note explaining their tardy. Your student will bring their note to front office and sign-in. (Notes should include: date, student’s full legal name, reason for tardy, and parent signature.) Students cannot excuse themselves.  Without a note, their tardy will go unexcused.
-Bring medical appointment note, if applicable.
-Parents do not need to walk students in. 
If they forget a note, you have 3 days to email a tardy excuse to our school attendance inbox at dickersonmssupport@cobbk12.org.

LUNCH REMINDERS:
Lunches (by 11am) and eyewear are the only items accepted in the front office. Fast food is not permitted.  The lunch cart sits outside the front entrance of the school until 11 am, then brought into the cafeteria.  Students will not be notified of lunches on the cart. Make sure they know to check it if they forget their lunch.

MEDICATION DROP OFF
Please contact Nurse Vanessa at vanessa.moulthrop@cobbk12.org to schedule an appointment with her.

ATTENDANCE

Per Cobb County District Attendance Policy, attendance excuses need to be provided to the school within 3 days of the absence.  You have choices in how you do this. You can:

• respond to the automated absence notification from CTLS
• email or school attendance inbox at dickersonmssupport@cobbk12.org
• bring a handwritten not to the front office of the school

The absence remains unexcused unless we receive some kind of communication from you. Teachers are unable to code attendance. Do not email them about attendance issues.

If there are any attendance issues (maybe your student was marked absent when they were in class), please enter your message into the automated notification link you receive OR email dickersonmssupport@cobbk12.org. These go directly to Ms. Helsel and she can then tend to your issue.  Do not email the teachers about this, as they are unable to code attendance.

For medical appointments, ask for an excuse note for school, and have your student bring it into the front office when they return.