I also heard of a school in Michigan where the kids were told they needed to have “0bama time.”
Where I went to school the funds that the schools received were based on attendance. Back in the late 80’s the rate was something crazy like $120 per student per day that the schools got funded and they lost that $120 per day each day the kid wasn’t in school.
This is why we could only miss 3 unexcused absences for half a year and a total of 5 unexcused absences for the year.
If it is still the same way they get funded I think the rate would be over $200 per day and if you had a school that had a few hundred students not showing up for a day it would impact the bottom line on the order of $xx,xxx or more.