<p>I’m lost on why someone would have to register an ongoing illness in order to have a hospitalization excused. Is this required of someone with a physical illness? If I have chronic asthma that’s usually manageable, but suddenly I have a crisis requiring two weeks in the hospital, I would expect the school to excuse that absence whether I told them in advance about the asthma or not. What’s the difference? If the hospitalization were for a regularly scheduled treatment, then I would understand expecting the student to prepare extra work in advance, but an emergency hospitalization is just that. No one knows when or if an emergency is going to occur.</p>