Today is the last day students can make up attendance for any courses in which they have missed too many days.

“People have been scrambling,” said Claudia Barthuly, ASL teacher and coordinator for after school detention. “(Today) a student can receive 5 hours worth of credit recovery time if they decide to attend the 4-Todahour detention session.”

Every day, students are registered into the school database, and every day, at least 18% of the student body is labeled as absent from school.

“Usually it’s tracked by your teacher,” academic and career center counselor Lauren Keisling said. “Every period, your teacher will take attendance, than he or she will either email the sheet directly to the front office, or have a student run it down there.”

While chronic absenteeism deals with the student having both excused and unexcused absences, chronic truancy is usually registered when a student fails to attend school without an excuse for 10 days or more, and usually leads to court cases.

If a student wants to regain credit they have lost, they must attend after-school detention, which typically last about 1 hours Monday-Thursday and 4 hours on Friday.

“If the student loses credit for a class, then they’ll be placed in credit recovery,” assistant principal Matthew Sutherland said. “Upfront, most kids have done a great job this year in making sure they show up to class, or making up for their absences by going to detention, so we’re not sure how many are not going to get credit.”