Absent days what counts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello, our first year in middle school. Before it was just full days reported in ES, once you have more than five, they call to ask.

In middle school we missed only one full day when child had fever, and then had multiple appointments where we would miss either first hour of school or last ( I try to schedule to avoid missing more than one period). I was surprised to see those are also tracked.

When should I be worried about consequences? The child is pulled only for appointments.
So far straight A grades.

What consequences? FCPS no longer cares, there are no consequences.

As a parent and teacher, I’m curious what you think the consequences should be? A kid misses a couple periods due to doctors’ appointments or gets pulled out 15 minutes early a couple times a quarter for appointments. Again, what consequences are you expecting?

The number of absences required to call the truancy officer hasn’t really changed. I think a few years ago they increased the number of absences required before they unenrolled the students, but those seem like normal consequences to me.

Should we be giving them detention? What were your thoughts?

I meant like bringing parents in for discussion, possibly failing grade, somewhere I read about having to do same grade one more year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello, our first year in middle school. Before it was just full days reported in ES, once you have more than five, they call to ask.

In middle school we missed only one full day when child had fever, and then had multiple appointments where we would miss either first hour of school or last ( I try to schedule to avoid missing more than one period). I was surprised to see those are also tracked.

When should I be worried about consequences? The child is pulled only for appointments.
So far straight A grades.

What consequences? FCPS no longer cares, there are no consequences.

As a parent and teacher, I’m curious what you think the consequences should be? A kid misses a couple periods due to doctors’ appointments or gets pulled out 15 minutes early a couple times a quarter for appointments. Again, what consequences are you expecting?

The number of absences required to call the truancy officer hasn’t really changed. I think a few years ago they increased the number of absences required before they unenrolled the students, but those seem like normal consequences to me.

Should we be giving them detention? What were your thoughts?

I meant like bringing parents in for discussion, possibly failing grade, somewhere I read about having to do same grade one more year.

Failing grades for lack of attendance is a natural consequence, IF the kid doesn't make up the work. It would make zero sense for a kid getting all As (as the OP mentioned) to fail anything or be held back because they missed classes for doctor's appointments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello, our first year in middle school. Before it was just full days reported in ES, once you have more than five, they call to ask.

In middle school we missed only one full day when child had fever, and then had multiple appointments where we would miss either first hour of school or last ( I try to schedule to avoid missing more than one period). I was surprised to see those are also tracked.

When should I be worried about consequences? The child is pulled only for appointments.
So far straight A grades.

What consequences? FCPS no longer cares, there are no consequences.

As a parent and teacher, I’m curious what you think the consequences should be? A kid misses a couple periods due to doctors’ appointments or gets pulled out 15 minutes early a couple times a quarter for appointments. Again, what consequences are you expecting?

The number of absences required to call the truancy officer hasn’t really changed. I think a few years ago they increased the number of absences required before they unenrolled the students, but those seem like normal consequences to me.

Should we be giving them detention? What were your thoughts?

I meant like bringing parents in for discussion, possibly failing grade, somewhere I read about having to do same grade one more year.

Failing grades for lack of attendance is a natural consequence, IF the kid doesn't make up the work. It would make zero sense for a kid getting all As (as the OP mentioned) to fail anything or be held back because they missed classes for doctor's appointments.

OP here. Thank you, I also feel we should be fine given he is straight A so far. Just wanted to check, this is our first year where I feel we had too many dr appts. Last year in elementary we had 8 days, probably about 5-6 due to travel, which I honestly stated ( I do not say sick if we are traveling for karma reasons), and I got a call from FCPS somebody. Though they had no problem, just advised to make sure teachers were ok. But with middle school I kind of got worried when I saw they count individual periods...

[Anonymous]

I think kids can miss somewhere around 12 days of school and then you get a letter that you’ll need a doctors note for an absence of more than 1 day. Once you hit 18 days then I think they might ask for a meeting. My experience is that they only counted full days towards that total. I had a chid with a chronic health condition and we eventually needed to get a 504 plan. You are not even close to needing that from my experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello, our first year in middle school. Before it was just full days reported in ES, once you have more than five, they call to ask.

In middle school we missed only one full day when child had fever, and then had multiple appointments where we would miss either first hour of school or last ( I try to schedule to avoid missing more than one period). I was surprised to see those are also tracked.

When should I be worried about consequences? The child is pulled only for appointments.
So far straight A grades.

What consequences? FCPS no longer cares, there are no consequences.

As a parent and teacher, I’m curious what you think the consequences should be? A kid misses a couple periods due to doctors’ appointments or gets pulled out 15 minutes early a couple times a quarter for appointments. Again, what consequences are you expecting?

The number of absences required to call the truancy officer hasn’t really changed. I think a few years ago they increased the number of absences required before they unenrolled the students, but those seem like normal consequences to me.

Should we be giving them detention? What were your thoughts?

Limited number of days to makeup after illness. No makeups for voluntary travel. Get rid of retakes.