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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP-  This happened to me in another school system. I got a note saying my child had too many unexcused absences with a threat to involve the courts. I called the school and they demanded I get medical notes for the days my child saw a doctor. I think we had 11 unexcused days - one full week for confirmed flu and then strep twice. It was a rough year. Plus I pulled them out when their older brother returned from Afghanistan.

Here's the thing - We have five kids and this was our youngest.  School threats don't rattle me like they do a lot of parents. I called the school's bluff. I wasn't about to go through the hassle of finding old medical records. My child was a straight A student in the gifted program. I told the school to escalate it if they felt it was important enough, otherwise I didn't want to hear another word about it.

They dropped it. I feel very strongly that schools overstep their boundaries. If I say my kids are sick, they are sick. If I want to pull them out of school for an overseas trip, I will. I'm not asking permission.  Once I made it clear that I wasn't at all concerned, the school backed off. I was polite, but firm.[/quote]

I like your attitude! After years overseas and in private (American) schools, I find the nanny-state aspect of DCPS to be so oppressive. Don't get me wrong, I understand that schools need to play this role in ensuring children are not being neglected or worse, but personally I find it hard to deal with. [/quote]

I think the reason why DCPS does this is because we have many children that missed tons of days, come in the last week of an advisory begging for work to make up and then when they fail due to absences, their parents try to take the school to court. This happens a lot more than DCPS would like to admit. [/quote]

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