Please read my post #43.
I totally agree, wintertime. This is also about the school trying to intervene in the basic bond of child/parent(s). A parent knows when their child is sick. I can look at my kid’s eyes and coloring and I KNOW. If a child completes the work and testing... the issue with an exact attendance number is ridiculous. I don’t know how many times I have volunteered at school and seen feverish kids.. some with awful sounding, productive, barking coughs.