This is about Middle School and Absenteeism

greenbutton
Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:35:53 +0000

Ymmv…one of my sons missed nearly an entire year of elementary school due to an illness that nearly killed him. When he was hospitalized and well enough to do some work, they faxed it to us. When he was home, but too weak to be at school, they arranged an at-home tutor (who was a former teacher) – no cost – who arrived twice a week to go through his lessons with him. When he returned to school, they ran him through his standardized tests to check his learning (you can’t make them up, so it did the school no good). He was promoted to the next grade just as if he had been there all along, and is none the worse for it, educationally. Although his cursive is really awful!!

Small schools can and do buttonhole parents to see what the deal is. But to do more than that really is judging people’s parenting and life, and that’s not going to be either helpful or effective.