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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you miss 1st period at Wilson you are marked absent for the day.

Makes no sense to me.[/quote]

Which would mean every time you have a doctor or dentist appointment, you are marked absent. So I guess we can't really accept these statistics as a valid picture of attendance at any school. I'm skeptical just based on the errors on my own kids attendance records. Between 2 kids in K-8, no tone year has been accurate, and according to neighbors, the high school record keeping is significantly less organized.[/quote]

And we wonder about the students, we are talking about UNEXCUSED ABSENCES, provide a note from a parent, they don't even ask for a doctor note and it is excused. So if a child is sick in bed it means that the parent despite being contacted can not be bothered to write a note to say their child is sick. And yes, they accept notes in any language! That's all they have to do, heck no one is even checking the handwriting, but no one is sending any kind of notification - yes that is a big problem![/quote]

The absenteeism goals and stats in this thread don’t distinguish between excuses and unexcused. Missing less than 5% of school days is the goal. [/quote]

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