Anonymous
Post 12/21/2025 12:43     Subject: School marked my kid absent when she was in class—WWYD?
It happens all the time. I'm a teacher. But when the kid points it out, I have a specific person I am supposed to email to fix the attendance record. It's not a big deal. Very weird that your school makes it into one, unless the teacher legitimately doesn't think she was there.
Anonymous
Post 12/21/2025 09:32     Subject: School marked my kid absent when she was in class—WWYD?
Anonymous wrote:You all are nuts. It absolutely does matter because if it’s unexcused absence, the teacher does not have to let them make up the work they missed and they can receive 0s which affects their grade.

OP - make sure your daughter was actually in class and isn’t lying to you before you contact the admin.


In public school this does not matter. Work can still be made up, excused or not.
Anonymous
Post 12/21/2025 09:28     Subject: School marked my kid absent when she was in class—WWYD?
Anonymous wrote:You all are nuts. It absolutely does matter because if it’s unexcused absence, the teacher does not have to let them make up the work they missed and they can receive 0s which affects their grade.

OP - make sure your daughter was actually in class and isn’t lying to you before you contact the admin.


No you are nuts! I’ve got a kid in college and I can tell you no admissions officer ever cares about something this minor
Anonymous
Post 12/19/2025 20:40     Subject: School marked my kid absent when she was in class—WWYD?
You all are nuts. It absolutely does matter because if it’s unexcused absence, the teacher does not have to let them make up the work they missed and they can receive 0s which affects their grade.

OP - make sure your daughter was actually in class and isn’t lying to you before you contact the admin.
Anonymous
Post 12/19/2025 20:01     Subject: Re:School marked my kid absent when she was in class—WWYD?
This is why you don’t put your kids in public school
Anonymous
Post 12/19/2025 10:57     Subject: School marked my kid absent when she was in class—WWYD?
Anonymous wrote:My time is more valuable than this. I would not even bother to log in a mark it in the portal. Do you think there is some person or agency that is going to sit around thinking about this? Like, a college admissions officer has time to review the daily attendance records and be like “ah ha! Looks like this kid might have skipped third period 2 years ago! DENIED!”


+1

You've spent waaaaay too much time on this already. You let them know, you have the email if it ever comes up again (why??) and it doesn't matter. Just let it go!
Anonymous
Post 12/19/2025 10:11     Subject: School marked my kid absent when she was in class—WWYD?
DC middle Schooler had the same experience, as the teacher mixed up same last name kid absent that day. DC contacted both teacher and school but it was never corrected.