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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS has had 2 bouts of illness. The first one resulted in 3 missed days in a row so we were contacted. They should be saving the messages for unexcused absences. It makes parents feel they should send sick kids to school. I know it made me hesitant to keep mine home for the 2nd illness.[/quote]

No they shouldn’t.  What they need is to be able to dig deeper into each cases and determine if they are generally spaced out and so likely more related to simple illness or school activities. They need to cross reference grades and other  social impacts.  But just assuming I excused absences is not correct.[/quote]

You're expecting MCPS to be thoughtful, accurate and rational and to apply effort. That's asking too much of them.[/quote]

I don’t think people are asking for an automatic message to be thoughtful. But it’s not too much to ask that it not be wrong.
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The message is not wrong.  OP's kid has missed 3 more more days of school.  The intent of the message is not to notify OP of unexcused absences.[/quote]

Sure, the message may be technically correct, but I like to find fault with MCPS regardless.[/quote]

It is not technically correct.[/quote]

How is it not?  The number of absences includes both excused and unexcused absences.  If OP kid has 3 excused and 0 unexcused, then that’s three absences. [/quote]

Because the message which was posted upthread says the child has 3 absences including BOTH excused and unexcused absences.  That implies the child has BOTH types of absences.

I complained about this to the school the first time I got this type of message and they said it was the MCPS central office way of writing and that they get parent calls about this all the time but that the school itself has nothing to do with it.   If they wanted to write it clearly, they could say the child has 3 absences including excused and/or unexcused absences.  Or they could actually differentiate between the excused and unexcused absences, but I guess that's asking too much from that bloated MCPS bureaucracy.   
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