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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your attitude is the problem.  You didn't even know to write the note when your child was sick.  If the mandate is to have kids enrolled in school at 5 I have no idea why you would think they shouldn't enforced attendance rules.  Work trip or not, your kids should be in school.  You need to inform yourself of the rules.  I doubt anything serious will come out of this, but let this serve as a wake up call.[/quote]

[b]How should I have known I need to write a note? [/b]I always informed the teacher, as the person who would notice that she is not there during the day.[/quote]

Because when you were growing up and you weren't going to be in school, your mom either wrote a note or called the school.  How many countless movies and sitcoms have relied on this plot device?  Did you ever see Ferris Bueller's Day Off?  The Breakfast Club?  Or even Carol Brady or Claire Huxtable?  How could you possibly not know to inform the people who are responsible for attendance records that your child would be absent?

At first I felt sorry for you, but that's just inexcusably entitled, arrogant, and most of all stupid.[/quote]

Wow, what a lot of vitriol! sheesh. I guess I figured that now that I can text the teacher (she encourages communication this way), the need for a note was not the same as what it was in '80s TV and movies... [/quote]

The notes aren't for the teacher. They are for the attendance person who answers to someone DCPS and/or OSSE. Maybe there wasn't an attendance person when you were growing up but there is someone with this role now and he/she needs documentation.

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Didn't Ferris Bueller give the fake note to his principal? [/quote]

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