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[quote=Anonymous]Parent who generally bugged that it is nearly impossible to get from one end of Chantilly to the other and impossible to do so and pee.  And feels it’s a problem this may or may not solve. But, I do expect Chantilly to have a general clue where my kid is at any given point and they have 3000 kids in that school.

And I have had the school lose my kid. More than once.  As in, attendance calls and says she isn’t there. I check and her phone is. I ask attendance to please find her. They tell me one of her friends must have taken her phone to school while she played hooky and she’s unexcused absent.   I text DD who gets permission to take a picture of the clock in the classroom (small AP class) and text it to me. That teacher is now interested in the fact they think she’s absent, and gets involved.  The school still insists she’s gone but after it’s escalated to the AP, agrees to mark her “absence” excused. Kid leaves class and reports to the subschool to prove she is present, not absent. They accuse her of not being herself.   Seriously. And she’s a unique looking kid. She, the subschool AP and I talk again.  I assure them that’s my DD and they still don’t believe me (or probably think I’m a friend and not the mom) And…. It turns out that the first week of school she changed math classes. Old teacher never formally removed her from the class roster.   Sub came. The class insisted DD no longer attended this class and was next door with that teacher.  Sub assumed they were lying… and marked her absent.

Then there was the time I was called and it turns out she had been excused for a rehearsal for an orchestra performance. That also took 45 minutes to clear up.

None of this made me think my kid was “safe and secure”.

Since they are incapable of keeping track of 3000 kids despite seeing that the kid is physically in front of them, maybe this will help. At least they haven’t lost her this year. Yet.

Really, would be glad to avoid this type of inanity eating up 45 minutes of my day.

I like that, whether it is used or not, the software should have the ability to flag that Janice and John, who have different schedules, cut class at a different time each day to hook up under the stairs. And despite their being 10 teachers involved in a given week someone can be alerted to an issue, and that issue can be easily dealt with.  No passes for John while Janice is out of class.

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