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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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I'm so sorry daddio!
You should've titled the post "who's her Daddioe"
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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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
I'm sorry but this is total and complete BULLSH&&.
Out on a limb as the dissenter here
Leah's school has a very strict and very clear attendance policy.
WHAT!!
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