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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools can (and are supposed to) refer you to cps after 10 unexcused absences. They rarely do, though, and even more rarely does cps do anything when it's only 10 non-consecutive days.

[b]But I don't know why your child's absences are any more justified than other people's, just because you're not poor.[/b][/quote]

This is the key point.

Your child is missing school for reasons that are not excused. This means you get the same communications and deal with the same consequences as every other family whose child misses that much school.

You aren’t special; you’re making a choice to pull your child out for reasons that DCPS doesn’t consider valid. If you don’t want to deal with it, don’t take your kid out of school so much. It’s pretty simple.[/quote]

Sure. I guess I am just wondering what the actual, real consequences are, realistically, for 10 days of non-consecutive unexcused absences. Like could I lose my OOB spot?

Also, what are some good excuses to use to get some days excused after the fact of missing a few days. I know that’s a morally ambiguous inquiry, but I’m okay with that. A doctor’s note excusing a few days would be great, but I wonder if I could even use the religious observance excuse, which seems like it would be a pretty broadly accepted excuse, especially since we’re in the US with so much religiosity. Pretty hard, legally, to argue with “firmly held beliefs”.[/quote]

I think you're being kind of gross and would think less of you for it if I knew you. You need to understand that what happens is CPS may call you and tell you that school is important, but close out the case because your child is not actually being neglected or abused.

I think you could technically lose your OOB spot but probably they wouldn't bother. However if you act like an entitled PITA in other ways, that can subtly affect your experience. It seems like you're treating school like a daycare where you can come and go as you please, and teachers resent that because it's disrespectful and it's more work for them to catch your kid up.[/quote]

I’m sorry but with a chance for my kid to see Bratislava for 4 days vs. miss a few days of school, I think it’s okay. You can pass moral judgments. It’s not as they matter to me because you have no impact on my life.[/quote]

Bratislava FFS?

Look, you asked and people are answering. The consequences of making the school staff think you're an entitled liar are subtle but real. That's the consequence. You may care, you may not, you may not even connect the dots when it happens. But it's real. That is the answer to the question you asked. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

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