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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I got this text yesterday, saying my kid missed 3 days of school this marking period, which wasn’t even accurate — he missed 5 consecutive days of school when he had the flu this marking period. They were excused — we provided a doctor’s note. MCPS apparently can’t even track attendance properly.

I think these texts should be about unexcused absences. But whatever — we are just going to ignore it. My kid is in school every day he is not sick. But I’m not going to make him go, and expose other kids to viruses, but because of condescending texts.  [/quote]

As has already been explained even large numbers of absences (excused or unexcused)have impact on learning success.  No one is expecting you to send in a sick kid.  In fact they hope you won’t .  However, they still have to deal with the problem of Chronic absenteeism and any parent can say their kid was out sick.  So short of requiring every student to get a doctor’s note everytime (which folks wouldn’t do and would also complain about) they have to start reaching out and ideally sooner than later.  For some people like you this will be something you can easily ignore, for others it’s a necessary first step.[/quote]

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