I agree with other re: let it be unexcused. We all have precious little time with our doctors and that time is for getting medical care.

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Anonymous wrote:You don’t have to comply simply because they ask you for it. If you or your child is not comfortable with the school having the information such as the name of the doctor, don’t do it. “No” is a complete sentence. You don’t have to put up with this BS.

You're the problem. No wonder kids are out of control and refuse to follow directions or act like functioning members of society...they have parents like you.

DP. There’s no reason that the kid has to know. It’s between the attendance secretary and the parent.

Some schools require a doctors note for medical appointments and some don’t. The OP is in an unrelated with her DD’s school and now has to provide doctors notes for medical appointments, suggesting that sometimes doctors notes are only required as a punitive measure. There doesn’t seem to be a policy, at least not a consistently applied one.

OP is not the problem. MCPS is the problem.

Stop blaming MCPS! You are the problem!

Schools are cracking down on this.

I think someone needs to file a lawsuit. Seriously.

The reality is good parents don’t send sick kids to school…and we also don’t take sick kids to the doctor for each and every ailment. If my kid is vomiting/has diarrhea and a fever for 3 days, sorry, but I’m not sending them to school—and I’m not taking them to the doctor *just* so I can produce a doctor’s note.

If my kid is sidelined with a migraine for two days, I’m not taking them to the doctor for a note. As if!

Positive covid test at home? Why on earth would I go to the doctor?

If they want to make sure teens who drive to school aren’t ditching, then call the parents for verification. Problem solved!

I think attendance records matter if there is a custody issue. If your ex is suing you for more time -- they can use the attendance records against you. Like if every time you bring the kid to school they are late. Or you take them out of school a lot.

Otherwise it really doesn't matter.

But if you are a parent having a "long battle" with the school -- the front office might have been instructed to follow/enforce all rules to the T

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Anonymous wrote:If the school puts the doctor’s name in Google it’s going to find out what the doctor’s specialty is. Don’t trust them with that information.

A PEDIATRICIAN!!! I think they have better things to do..

Fine if it’s a pediatrician. If it’s a specialist it reveals information and it’s a mental health specialist they will gossip about it.

I’m all for privacy but give the attendence secretary a little credit. She’s not going to gossip about a student’s therapy appointment. Also, this type of mindset is exactly why there is a stigma around mental health. Talking about mental health and normalizing caring for it is the best way to fight stigma and get more teens (and adults) into treatment. My child recognizes that he is not alone in his struggles. He has many friends who also see therapists and they discuss it with one another without shame or embarrassment. And these are all kids you would neber know struggle because they are honors/AP students, well behaved, and many are successful athletes.

I’ve been around MCPS too long to give the attendance secretary any credit or the benefit of the doubt. Don’t trust MCPS with your kids’ private medical information.

There’s no private medical info on the note DS brings. It’s a form letter.

It says “________ had an appointment with __________ on ___/___/___. Please excuse their absence. They can return to school on on ___/___/___ with _________ restrictions.”

Do you really think the attendance secretary in a huge MCPS school like Blair (or any MCPS school) has the time or inclination to Google who Dr. Granola is to find out if he shrinks tumors or he’s a shrink?

Not worth taking the chance that it ends up in the hands of one of the perverts looking for the most vulnerable kids who no one will believe or one of the antisemites.

Loosing up the tin foil hat.

No tin foil needed. Just a clear-eyed assessment of the system’s integrity and safety in light of the repeated misconduct at senior levels and the repeated assertions that the system has no duty to protect students. MCPS is not to be trusted.

Then I trust you don’t send your kids there, as that would make you a terrible parent.

So how is homeschooling going?

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Anonymous wrote:If the school puts the doctor’s name in Google it’s going to find out what the doctor’s specialty is. Don’t trust them with that information.

A PEDIATRICIAN!!! I think they have better things to do..

Fine if it’s a pediatrician. If it’s a specialist it reveals information and it’s a mental health specialist they will gossip about it.

I’m all for privacy but give the attendence secretary a little credit. She’s not going to gossip about a student’s therapy appointment. Also, this type of mindset is exactly why there is a stigma around mental health. Talking about mental health and normalizing caring for it is the best way to fight stigma and get more teens (and adults) into treatment. My child recognizes that he is not alone in his struggles. He has many friends who also see therapists and they discuss it with one another without shame or embarrassment. And these are all kids you would neber know struggle because they are honors/AP students, well behaved, and many are successful athletes.

I’ve been around MCPS too long to give the attendance secretary any credit or the benefit of the doubt. Don’t trust MCPS with your kids’ private medical information.

There’s no private medical info on the note DS brings. It’s a form letter.

It says “________ had an appointment with __________ on ___/___/___. Please excuse their absence. They can return to school on on ___/___/___ with _________ restrictions.”

Do you really think the attendance secretary in a huge MCPS school like Blair (or any MCPS school) has the time or inclination to Google who Dr. Granola is to find out if he shrinks tumors or he’s a shrink?

Not worth taking the chance that it ends up in the hands of one of the perverts looking for the most vulnerable kids who no one will believe or one of the antisemites.

Please get some mental health help for your paranoia.

I remember my mother getting a doctor’s note for us in the 80s/90s. What’s the big deal? It’s just the doctor’s name. It’s not like they rent a plane and drag a message in the sky that says THIS CHILD HAD A MENTAL HEALTH APPOINTMENT.

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Anonymous wrote:You don’t have to comply simply because they ask you for it. If you or your child is not comfortable with the school having the information such as the name of the doctor, don’t do it. “No” is a complete sentence. You don’t have to put up with this BS.

You're the problem. No wonder kids are out of control and refuse to follow directions or act like functioning members of society...they have parents like you.

DP. There’s no reason that the kid has to know. It’s between the attendance secretary and the parent.

Some schools require a doctors note for medical appointments and some don’t. The OP is in an unrelated with her DD’s school and now has to provide doctors notes for medical appointments, suggesting that sometimes doctors notes are only required as a punitive measure. There doesn’t seem to be a policy, at least not a consistently applied one.

OP is not the problem. MCPS is the problem.

Anonymous wrote:You don’t have to comply simply because they ask you for it. If you or your child is not comfortable with the school having the information such as the name of the doctor, don’t do it. “No” is a complete sentence. You don’t have to put up with this BS.

You're the problem. No wonder kids are out of control and refuse to follow directions or act like functioning members of society...they have parents like you.

You don’t have to comply simply because they ask you for it. If you or your child is not comfortable with the school having the information such as the name of the doctor, don’t do it. “No” is a complete sentence. You don’t have to put up with this BS.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here- I told her I would send her the appointment reminder because I didn't have a note. It felt uncomfortable because the appointment was for a mental health professional

Oh hell no, they don't need to know what appointment it was. As PP above said, remind them of the rule. And so what if it's an unexcused absence? It doesn't matter.

+1 just let it be "unexcused." What are they going to do about it anyway?

Their policies are so unclear and they focus on the wrong things.

Exactly, what are they going to do about it? Unenroll your child?

This.

Nothing matters.

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Anonymous wrote:If the school puts the doctor’s name in Google it’s going to find out what the doctor’s specialty is. Don’t trust them with that information.

A PEDIATRICIAN!!! I think they have better things to do..

Fine if it’s a pediatrician. If it’s a specialist it reveals information and it’s a mental health specialist they will gossip about it.

I’m all for privacy but give the attendence secretary a little credit. She’s not going to gossip about a student’s therapy appointment. Also, this type of mindset is exactly why there is a stigma around mental health. Talking about mental health and normalizing caring for it is the best way to fight stigma and get more teens (and adults) into treatment. My child recognizes that he is not alone in his struggles. He has many friends who also see therapists and they discuss it with one another without shame or embarrassment. And these are all kids you would neber know struggle because they are honors/AP students, well behaved, and many are successful athletes.

I’ve been around MCPS too long to give the attendance secretary any credit or the benefit of the doubt. Don’t trust MCPS with your kids’ private medical information.

There’s no private medical info on the note DS brings. It’s a form letter.

It says “________ had an appointment with __________ on ___/___/___. Please excuse their absence. They can return to school on on ___/___/___ with _________ restrictions.”

Do you really think the attendance secretary in a huge MCPS school like Blair (or any MCPS school) has the time or inclination to Google who Dr. Granola is to find out if he shrinks tumors or he’s a shrink?

Not worth taking the chance that it ends up in the hands of one of the perverts looking for the most vulnerable kids who no one will believe or one of the antisemites.

Antisemite?

Anonymous wrote:Most of our child's doctors have a form note but it does list their name and the name of their practice. Others may write it on a piece of paper from one of their notepads but again it has their name, and name of practice. so it would say

Larlo Larla
Behavioral Health Associates

No one will care.

This is MoCo in 2023. Half the people you know, including kids, are/have been in therapy or on meds because life is so friggin stressful here. One reason life is stressful here is because people create worry where none need exist.

The attendance secretary does a lot of work beyond looking at notes from a kid who has been absent. She doesn’t have time to snoop and likely doesn’t care.

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Anonymous wrote:If the school puts the doctor’s name in Google it’s going to find out what the doctor’s specialty is. Don’t trust them with that information.

A PEDIATRICIAN!!! I think they have better things to do..

Fine if it’s a pediatrician. If it’s a specialist it reveals information and it’s a mental health specialist they will gossip about it.

I’m all for privacy but give the attendence secretary a little credit. She’s not going to gossip about a student’s therapy appointment. Also, this type of mindset is exactly why there is a stigma around mental health. Talking about mental health and normalizing caring for it is the best way to fight stigma and get more teens (and adults) into treatment. My child recognizes that he is not alone in his struggles. He has many friends who also see therapists and they discuss it with one another without shame or embarrassment. And these are all kids you would neber know struggle because they are honors/AP students, well behaved, and many are successful athletes.

I’ve been around MCPS too long to give the attendance secretary any credit or the benefit of the doubt. Don’t trust MCPS with your kids’ private medical information.

There’s no private medical info on the note DS brings. It’s a form letter.

It says “________ had an appointment with __________ on ___/___/___. Please excuse their absence. They can return to school on on ___/___/___ with _________ restrictions.”

Do you really think the attendance secretary in a huge MCPS school like Blair (or any MCPS school) has the time or inclination to Google who Dr. Granola is to find out if he shrinks tumors or he’s a shrink?

Not worth taking the chance that it ends up in the hands of one of the perverts looking for the most vulnerable kids who no one will believe or one of the antisemites.

Loosing up the tin foil hat.

No tin foil needed. Just a clear-eyed assessment of the system’s integrity and safety in light of the repeated misconduct at senior levels and the repeated assertions that the system has no duty to protect students. MCPS is not to be trusted.

As has been stated to you several times, no one cares if your kid is seeing a psychiatrist or mental health specialist in 2023. It's commonplace and hardly worthy of the kind of office gossip that you're frothing at the mouth about. Get a grip.

You seem awfully determined to maintain access to students' medical records.

DP but seriously !? You think some internet stranger wants access to your students' medical records ?
As a previous poster already said : loosen up that tin foil hat. It's definitely too tight.

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Anonymous wrote:If the school puts the doctor’s name in Google it’s going to find out what the doctor’s specialty is. Don’t trust them with that information.

A PEDIATRICIAN!!! I think they have better things to do..

Fine if it’s a pediatrician. If it’s a specialist it reveals information and it’s a mental health specialist they will gossip about it.

I’m all for privacy but give the attendence secretary a little credit. She’s not going to gossip about a student’s therapy appointment. Also, this type of mindset is exactly why there is a stigma around mental health. Talking about mental health and normalizing caring for it is the best way to fight stigma and get more teens (and adults) into treatment. My child recognizes that he is not alone in his struggles. He has many friends who also see therapists and they discuss it with one another without shame or embarrassment. And these are all kids you would neber know struggle because they are honors/AP students, well behaved, and many are successful athletes.

I’ve been around MCPS too long to give the attendance secretary any credit or the benefit of the doubt. Don’t trust MCPS with your kids’ private medical information.

There’s no private medical info on the note DS brings. It’s a form letter.

It says “________ had an appointment with __________ on ___/___/___. Please excuse their absence. They can return to school on on ___/___/___ with _________ restrictions.”

Do you really think the attendance secretary in a huge MCPS school like Blair (or any MCPS school) has the time or inclination to Google who Dr. Granola is to find out if he shrinks tumors or he’s a shrink?

Not worth taking the chance that it ends up in the hands of one of the perverts looking for the most vulnerable kids who no one will believe or one of the antisemites.

Loosing up the tin foil hat.

No tin foil needed. Just a clear-eyed assessment of the system’s integrity and safety in light of the repeated misconduct at senior levels and the repeated assertions that the system has no duty to protect students. MCPS is not to be trusted.

As has been stated to you several times, no one cares if your kid is seeing a psychiatrist or mental health specialist in 2023. It's commonplace and hardly worthy of the kind of office gossip that you're frothing at the mouth about. Get a grip.

You seem awfully determined to maintain access to students' medical records.