Missing class to attend the adoption hearing for his younger sister is a lousy excuse?
Yeah, what's family, in the face of the scheduling needs of the state education machine?
:: spit ::
I believe that California socialist-entitlement schools are paid each day a child attends. When a child misses school, the socialist school Moloch is not fed his daily ration of tax dollars.
The government socialist-entitlement school priests and priestesses get testy.