This is about Middle School and Absenteeism

compmom
Thu, 23 Jan 2014 09:32:13 +0000

ps It’s not personal! Noone is calling into question your parenting judgments.

Public schools exert a certain amount of control over families, honestly. It’s hard for parents in situations like this, and just want to add that I sympathize.

In our house, we talk about “institutional behavior” and that the institution is like an organism that protects itself and often has agendas we don’t know about. In this case, there may be hidden agendas like loss of funding for excessive student absenteeism, for instance. The school often won’t share these agendas with parents. Some will bend the rules, others won’t, especially bigger schools.

So don’t make this personal and keep that institutional organism happy. You don’t want to deal with it if it gets riled and strikes back at you!