Regular attendance is essential in providing District students with a high quality of instruction. First year preferred employees will have available eight (8) days of sick leave per school year.  Second year employees will have available nine (9) days of sick leave per school year.  Beginning with the third year all professional employees will have available ten (10) days of sick leave per school year.  Sick leave will accumulate to a maximum of ninety (90) days.  Three (3) days of the annual sick leave may be granted for personal use.

When employees are absent three (3) consecutive days (excluding prior approved personal days), more than five (5) days a month, twenty (20) days in any semester, or more than forty (40) days per school year, their absence is considered excessive. The Superintendent/designee will review each incident of excessive absence and shall require the employee to provide medical documentation or may consider disciplinary actions up to and including termination.

1. Any certified employee who will end the school year with more than ninety (90) sick leave days and has signed a contact for the following year in this district will be paid $35.00 for each sick leave day over ninety (90).
   
2. Any teacher with perfect attendance in a given year shall be offered the opportunity to work on (1) day in the summer.  The teacher duties on this day will be to conference with administration on a way to improve teacher attendance.  Pay for this day shall be $150.00.  FMLA-protected absences and leave granted as a reasonable accommodation to a qualified individual with a disability do not count against "perfect attendance."
   
3. Any teacher who is retiring will be entitled to a buyback of all leave accumulated up to 90 days at current Board of Education approved rate of pay. The Superintendent must receive written notification of the employee’s intent to retire by April 15th of the current school year. Failure to notify the Superintendent in writing by this date will result in no pay for accumulated days.
Extenuating circumstances will be reviewed through an appeals process. Circumstances deemed extraordinary or beyond the employee’s control will be considered on a case by case basis as presented to the Board for consideration. Requests for an appeal must be received in writing at least five (5) days prior to the next regularly scheduled Board of Education meeting. The decision of the Board will be final.