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[quote=Anonymous][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. [b]Old teacher never formally removed her from the class roster. [/b]  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.

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Teachers can't remove students from rosters. Only the counselors can. And there are a lot of suspicious shenanigans going on with attendance: now that HS are cracking down on unexcused absences, some students are being excused absent at an alarmingly high rate. There's really no way for an office staffer to know who is who in schools that are this large.

If students are excused for field trips, somebody in the office needs to mark them excused ahead of time. It's just not possible for teachers to keep track of 140 students' individual schedules with all the other things we have to do.

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