I'm curious what other districts, especially those running Skyward, are doing with homebound students. For clarification, we are talking about students who are simply too ill to attend school. This can range from a broken bone (the student being out for an extended period of time) to severe handicaps (the student being out on an indefinite leave due to a disease like cancer or due to severe allergies). We are finding an increasing amount of students who are now homebound, and leaving them enrolled in our facilities seems to wreak havoc on many things, not the least of which is SIS and attendance.
For SIS, there isn't a withdrawal type for a student going to homebound status, but we have an internal withdrawal type. Unfortunately, this is not a state-recognized withdrawal, so the student is never really withdrawn on the State side. As a result, the student will kick back errors that need to be manually fixed on a constant basis. As far as attendance goes, these types of students shouldn't be included in the ADA reports, but their attendance still has to be reported (we report the attendance from our students via our Special Ed co-op). While they would be reasonably easy to filter out of ADA reports via student type, we are finding an issue with how their attendance is to be reported. Per State code, one hour of instructional time for a homebound student counts as a half-day of attendance. If they have four hours of instructional time, it counts as a full day of attendance. We considered putting them in a different 'school', but obviously the State wouldn't issue an RCDTS code strictly for this. We thought about just creating a new student code for these students, but that still leaves the attendance issue. Add to all this the fact that it's a person in our Special Ed co-op responsible for the maintaining of these students, and the issue gets further complicated (I don't want to give just ONE person access to all the students in all of our schools so she can maintain a couple hundred students out of the 4500+ in our district). Again, I'm just looking for some thoughts, or information on how other districts are handling these students. Thanks, Mike Mike Doney Software Support Specialist Galesburg CUSD #205 ________________________________ This electronic mail is copyrighted by Community Unit School District #205, Galesburg, Illinois USA. Unauthorized dissemination or duplication of it is prohibited. Violators of copyright/confidentiality laws may be prosecuted.
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