Effective: April 6, 2017
Latest Legislation: House Bill 410 - 131st General Assembly
(A) As used in this section, "extracurricular activity" means a pupil activity program that a school or school district operates and is not included in the school district's graded course of study, including an interscholastic extracurricular activity that a school or school district sponsors or participates in and that has participants from more than one school or school district.
(B) If a student enrolled in a school district is absent from school for the sole purpose of traveling out of the state to participate in an enrichment activity approved by the district board of education or in an extracurricular activity, the district shall count that absence as an excused absence, up to a maximum of twenty-four hours per school year that the student's school is open for instruction. The district shall require any such student to complete any classroom assignments that the student misses because of the absence.
(C) If a student will be absent from school for twenty-four or more consecutive hours that the student's school is open for instruction, for a purpose described in division (B) of this section, a classroom teacher employed by the school district shall accompany the student during the travel period to provide the student with instructional assistance.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 33 | Education-Libraries
Chapter 3321 | School Attendance
Section 3321.02 | Children Amenable to Compulsory Education Laws.
Section 3321.03 | Parent's Obligation to See That Child Receives Instruction.
Section 3321.04 | Scope of Obligation.
Section 3321.041 | Excused Absences for Certain Extracurricular Activities.
Section 3321.05 | All-Day or Extended Kindergarten.
Section 3321.07 | Requirements for Child Instructed at Other Than Public School.
Section 3321.08 | Part-Time School - Definition.
Section 3321.09 | Part-Time Schooling Not Provided by Board of Education.
Section 3321.10 | Supervision of Children Employed on Age and Schooling Certificates.
Section 3321.11 | Availability or Accessibility of Part-Time Schools.
Section 3321.12 | Report to Treasurer of Board.
Section 3321.14 | Attendance Officer - Pupil-Personnel Workers.
Section 3321.141 | Contacting Parent, Guardian, or Other Person Having Care of Any Absent Student.
Section 3321.15 | Educational Service Center Attendance Officer and Assistants.
Section 3321.16 | Investigation of Nonattendance; Complaint.
Section 3321.17 | Attendance Officer and Assistants - Powers.
Section 3321.18 | Enforcement Proceedings.
Section 3321.191 | Adoption of Policy Regarding Student Absences; Intervention Strategies.
Section 3321.20 | Warning of Legal Consequences of Truancy - Complaint.
Section 3321.22 | Juvenile Court Proceedings.
Section 3321.38 | Prohibiting Failure to Send Child to School.