and this drives me nuts..... you see my wife has a severe disabling chronic illness. Because of these stupid policies about attendance people send their kids to school sick, which in turn makes everyone else sick. This happens over and over again kids bringing home illnesses because the other kids should have just stayed home when they where sick but can't.
Where we used to live they had a ridiculous attendance policy. They would only allow a kid to miss 3 days per quarter for anything. It didn't make a difference whether or not they had an legitimate excuse.
With all of that said there are times where we had to send our kids to school sick because of this policy. Also there are some times that they did get seriously sick and had to miss more than their allowed days. We kept the school updated with their condition, the school allowed it under their homebound sickness policy, we picked up their work and the school worked with us. We never where arrested for truancy court. If we hadn't been responsible and communicated with the school, we would have probably been arrested for truancy court.
I think there is more to this story. That school most likely had a homebound policy also for kids that are ill for long periods of time.
There is more to the First Amendment than freedom of speech. Free Assembly is also a right given to us by **GOD*** and is included in the First Amendment!
Yeah! I am shouting. I am exasperated!
When are conservatives going to wake up to the fact that government schooling trashes every First Amendment Right ( gifts from God)?
Solution: End compulsory education laws and begin the process of privatizing al schooling.
My point in my post was, we simply didn’t take our kids word they were sick... We actually checked their the temperature and for signs of illness...
90 % of the time, they were fine and dandy, just didn’t want to go to school...
Of course if they actually sick... They got to stay home in bed, no T.V. No telephone but reading...