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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always email my son's teacher in the morning when I know he is too sick to come to school.  [b]I doubt most public elementary schools call home.[/b]  I went to a private HS and if you didn't call in sick by a certain time, the nurse would call home.  I remember taking a few "Mental Health" holidays in HS and being ticked off by the nurse calling and waking me up.  She was ticked off that I had made the choice to stay home when my mother was at work.  I was like, "Hello.  I am 17 yrs old and I can decide for myself if I am too sick to come to school."[/quote]

[quote]I love my son's teachers and I'm not a public-school basher, but this level of disinterest in attendance monitoring/record-keeping seems problematic[/quote]

Let's not generalize about all public schools.  I think it's school specific policies rather than a public vs. private school issue.  My son's public ES calls first thing in the morning if he's not in class - real person and they call until they actually speak to DH or me directly (no leaving messages).  I've heard other public ES do this as well.  [/quote]

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