This is about Middle School and Absenteeism

bajamm
Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:15:40 +0000

I had to deal with the same issues for 3 years while my D was in high school. She missed 25-30 days every year for 9th, 10th, and 11th grades while pulling a 4.0 GPA in all honors and AP classes. She was hospitalized 2x in 9th grade and once in 10th for a week or more each time. She had doctor’s excuses for 95% of those abscenses.

We still received the truancy letters. I called the school to make sure they had the doctor’s notes, they did and didn’t seem to care. She was still told that her open campus priveleges were being revoked, even with the doctor’s excuses.

We all were glad to be done with the high school scene and move on to the college scene.

Yes, it is something that the school has to do for the I don’t care kids and they need to at least appear to not be playing favorites. But can’t they still make a distinction between those with doctor’s notes and those without the notes without playing favorites?