"H Schinske" wrote:

For example, this school district I live in allows
only ten excused absences a year or you are retained.

Oh, that's insane. You can be retained just because you had stomach flu
three
times, and didn't have the luck to have it over any weekends?? I can't
think of
too many things I would sue over, but a law as stupid as that, it would
almost
be fun.

--Helen

dh wants to get the law changed too. I am irate. The school board is
taking us out to dinner this week (for something else, of course,) and the
principal is bound to be there. She may have been required by law to send
the notice, but urghh, I'm not ready to talk with her calmly. I am so angry
about this. The more I think about it, the angrier I get. You know, you
think truant kid, and you think a kid that's in trouble, falling behind,
uninvolved parents, unsupervised, etc., etc. But no. A truant kid is now a
kid that had the flu, went for a doctor appt., and will be visiting her ill
relative... who reads/writes/comprehends/computes well above grade level,
takes after school piano lessons at the school, is a Girl Scout for G*d's
sake... with parents who volunteer in the school and community. Oh, my dd
is at risk. Better threaten us with fines. I am really irate. Who came up
with such a stupid law?