Who's the Parent?

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Registered: 11-13-2004
Who's the Parent?
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Wed, 02-27-2008 - 12:05pm

I received a letter from DD's school yesterday advising me that her grades will be dropped one full letter grade because she has had 7 absences. Their cutoff is 4.


She had 4 from our snowboarding trip, and 3 last month due to illness. (Strep and severe cold / flu)

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 02-27-2008 - 12:16pm
Go get 'em, daddio! I hate when schools pull this kind of crapola.
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Registered: 02-14-2000
Wed, 02-27-2008 - 12:18pm
You go get them, daddioe!
Pam
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Registered: 02-25-2002
Wed, 02-27-2008 - 12:20pm
Good luck, Daddioe, here's hoping this is just one of those *formalities*...their policy is very strict even for non-parent sanctioned missed days. Jeesh...

 

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Registered: 03-06-2006
Wed, 02-27-2008 - 12:21pm

I'm so sorry daddio!

 

 

 

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Registered: 10-29-2003
Wed, 02-27-2008 - 12:26pm

You should've titled the post "who's her Daddioe"

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Registered: 10-25-2006
Wed, 02-27-2008 - 12:31pm

There were plenty of parents ranting about it at DSs' HS, also.

Last year one of DS18's friends, as a senior, wanted to take a calculus class at the community college and it started two weeks before school was over. Everyone knows that no significant learning goes on those last two weeks, especially for seniors. His mom had to go the the district administrators because neither the asst principal nor the principal would allow him to take 2.5 hours off from school each day those last two weeks, without counting the time away as absences. If that time away counted as absences, he would not have been able to graduate.

When DS was suspended his senior year, I was irate that the time he missed counted as absences--he did not choose to miss school; and I surely would not have let him miss school. Also, when he had to miss school to get the school-required eval by an addictions counselor, it was counted as an absence. After the asst superintendent ruled that the suspension should be removed from his record, the absences were still not removed--the type of absence was changed from OS (out-of-school susp.) to AE (administrative absence).

It's the whole zero-tolerance thing all over again. Setting hard-and-fast rules relieves the administrators of their decision-making responsibilities in these matters. Why then do we taxpayers pay them so much? Any admin asst could take care of that stuff. The schools should be able to get along with one, or two less administrators.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 02-27-2008 - 12:35pm

The one that blew me away was taking the kids to the doctor, coming in with them to sign them in and being told I had to have something from the doctor verifying that we were REALLY just at the doctor and I wasn't standing there lying to them face to face!!!

Thank you No Child Left Behind! They've got to have a certain amount of attendance by hook or by crook!

Good luck! They are hitting the parents where it hurts and they know it

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Registered: 07-19-2003
Wed, 02-27-2008 - 1:07pm

I'm sorry but this is total and complete BULLSH&&.

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Registered: 12-14-2006
Wed, 02-27-2008 - 1:07pm

Out on a limb as the dissenter here


Leah's school has a very strict and very clear attendance policy.

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Registered: 11-13-2004
Wed, 02-27-2008 - 1:28pm

WHAT!!

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