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[quote=Anonymous]This is standard DCPS policy.  A prior year our school admin folks messed up and failed to record a few absences due to illness correctly (we had documented them at the time), plus my child had missed a few days over the year due to travel.  We didn't hit our 10 unexcused, but when we got to what they mistakenly documented as 9 unexcused absences, social workers began calling us non-stop.  (That "9th unexcused absence" was actually because my child had a chance to meet President Obama and VP Biden, but DCPS counted that as an unexcused absence -- I must have received six or seven phone calls from social workers warning me that I would soon be referred to the police.  I said but my child met the President and I have a photo to prove it, and they literally said that meeting the President wasn't considered excused and if it happened again they would open a police investigation -- FYI, my child was in kindergarten.)

Eventually I forwarded enough old emails showing that I had properly informed the school of illness at the time, that after a few more stern lectures they cleared us.

Good luck. It's quite a major drag, not to mention stressful.  [/quote]

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