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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What, you don't want to pay $100 to sit in a waiting room with a bunch of even sicker people for 4 hours? Where is your sense of adventure?[/quote]

Urgent care is like $20-$25 with most insurance. And if you make an appointment,  you won’t wait 4 hours. [/quote]

DP. That it costs $25 and might be faster is there is still no reason to be there, except MCPS’s excessively fastidious administrative BS. That’s a fairly terrible basis for any additional use pressure on the health care system we have going in this country rn.[/quote]

I thought the email said it was a STATE law in which case your argument is with MD not MCPS.[/quote]
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Came here to say this. At the state level they have reduced the number of days absent to unenroll a student (10) and made that mandatory. They are also pressuring school systems to enforce existing laws around absences. Statewide, absences and truancy are up significantly and it’s a concern.

Some parents have their kids out of school for many days in a row when they should be in school, and then just say the child was sick. Vacations are a big issue. But also parents having their own issues and wanting the kid to stay home even when they are not sick. Not every family is as functional as yours, OP. You are complaining about a scenario that hasn’t even happened to you yet. When it does, either get your note with a telehealth visit or be prepared for the school to want to talk to you about it. Honestly, they aren’t going to care when it’s the one time all year you kid was out. But when you’ve racked up 20 absences before winter break, they are legally required to have a conversation with you about it.[/quote]

The requirement to be in school is not too high in Maryland. We were told that a student is marked ¨present¨ if they are in class for at least 6 minutes.[/quote]

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