At the end of the semester, when I would make out final grades, I noticed the absences listed on the computer rosters were far different from the ones I kept in my roll book - meaning someone who had access to supposedly secure attendance rosters and was “cooking the books” - students I hadn’t seen for weeks, if not months, were mysteriously counted as present almost every single day.
I was being overridden somewhere.
You just witnessed some administrators earning their pay.
Cooking the books is mandatory in many professions in 2021.