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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school doesn't call and I think it's kind of scary -what if I dropped off DC and then they weren't in class?  No one would know they had disappeared.[/quote]

[b]You don't notify the school when your young child will be out!?!?[/b]
I find that weird.....[/quote]

One school emails and robocalls.  The other school just robocalls.

It is easy to not call the school.  For example:

In one instance, the kid puked at school and had to be taken home.  Since the school policy is to keep the kid home the next day, and the nurse reminded me of the policy at least 3 times as I was leaving the office, I assumed that they would make note with the attendance people that the kid would be absent the next day.  Apparently, they did not.

In another instance, we were missing a day due to a late arrival flight from a family trip.  A note was sent in advance to the school and to the teacher, but it somehow did not make it to the attendance office, so we got the call.

In another instance, I was up the entire night with a puking child, so when they finally stopped throwing up around 4:00 AM I just crashed.  Planned to call the school when I woke up, but the attendance office robocall beat me to it.

It is not that weird to get the call before you actually contact the school.  Our robocalls go out when attendance is collected and entered, within an hour after the day begins.[/quote]

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