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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You drove her to school, but just couldn't bother to walk to the main office with her to get a late pass.[/quote]

Stop it. High schoolers don't want their parents in the building, and at our high school in particular, parents are not very welcome, unless there's an appointment in the books. They just can't deal with more people.

OP, it should be excused, but maybe your kid will have to let them know or something. During all our years in MCPS, I've noticed that absences are not well documented by schools: sometimes my kids are marked absent when they're not, sometimes they're not marked absent when they are, and there's been frequent confusion over what's excused and what's not. I ended up not caring AT ALL, because guess what? It doesn't affect their grades. So now, when my youngest, who is my only kid left in MCPS, has a doctor's appointment or is sick or something, I sometimes forget to jump through all the hoops required by her high school. It's just too much bother for no consequences.
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Unfortunately I’ve found that it can affect their grades. My kid was penalized for an absence that was not marked as excused and got a zero for an attendance based grade that could not be made up. Since then I always make sure to provide paperwork.[/quote]

+1 Some teachers are really strict and will 0s for unexcused absences and they will mark a kid totally absent the whole period if they are more than a certain number of minutes late. Happened to DD. It took many hours and an appeal to the admin to get it sorted out. (It was an excused absence just marked wrong.) I don't recommend chancing it.[/quote]

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