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Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Code.

Section EDU.02.06 — Definitions

For the purpose of this code the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed below:

(a) "Adult" means any person 18 years of age or older who is not enrolled in the Bowler or Shawano/Gresham School Districts.

(b) "Child" means any person who is less than 18 years of age.

(c) "Member" means a person enrolled with the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.

(d) "Trust Lands" means any lands held as proclaimed reservation or in trust for the benefit of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.

(e) "School" means the Bowler Public School or the Shawano/Gresham Public School and includes any alternative sites on or near Trust Lands where instruction may occur.

(f) "School Attendance" means physical presence of a child in school, and includes attending scheduled classes during such hours and on such days as determined by the school or, for students enrolled in alternative education programs, attendance at the place and during hours scheduled by the school for the student, unless excused from such attendance by school policy or state law.

(g) "School Attendance Policy" means the current policy for school attendance duly adopted by the applicable school board.

(h) "Tribal Child" means a child who is either an enrolled member of the Tribe, or is eligible for enrollment in the Tribe.

(i) "Tribal Court" means the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Court.

(j) "Truancy" means any absence by any child of part or all of one or more days from school during which the school attendance officer, or his/her agent, has not been notified of the excused absence by the person having the absent pupil under his or her control during non-school hours. "Truancy" also means intermittent attendance carried on for the purpose of defeating the intent of the state and tribe's attendance laws. (Wis. Stat. Sec.118.15 and Section EDU.02.07.)

(k) "Habitual Truancy" means a pupil who is absent from school without an acceptable excuse under Wis. Stat. Sec 118.15 for all or part of 5 or more days on which school is held during a semester.

(l) "Student" means one who attends school.

(m) "School-age child" means a child age 6 to 18.

(n) "Custodian" means an adult person, other than a parent or guardian, who has been given temporary physical care, custody or control of a child, including the duty to provide food, clothing, shelter, medical care, education and supervision of the child.

(o) "Guardian" means a person other than the child's parent who is by tribal law or custom responsible for that child.