Ferris Bueller
we lived in South Texas and my daughter has asthma...she missed 3 or 4 days of school as of January one year in 3rd grade and we received a letter informing us that if she missed any more school we could be taken to court. A physician’s note is required for every day of every absence. There are many days when children are sick enough to stay home but not sick enough to need to see an MD. The schools in Texas do not trust parents to know when to let their kids stay home from school and it is all tied to school funding. It is outrageous. Incidentally my daughter has always been an A student.
And so it begins.... The destruction of Texan policies by the whinyass carpetbagger leftists from the commie states they ran like cowards from. Go back to kommifornia or new yuck commie pig carpetbaggers.
Government schools are prisons for children.
The Texas Education Code specifies that “ten or more” UNEXCUSED absences in a semester is in violation of the compulsory attendance statutes. This writer’s intuition is that the narrative in the story is BS. For a kid to go to court the DA has to find a violation of law and the TEC specifies those conditions, so under 10+ unexcused there’s no violation of law. Getting an absence excused is easy: a parent / guardian note within three days of the absence does it. If A kid is under the “must have a doctor’s note” condition he / she is a serial offender. One mom I knew stole a pad of excuses from a doc and was writing them herself. The benefits to a strict attendance policy: more kids in school; reduced daylight juvenile crime; fewer ignorant people in society.