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That’s understandable, just a pet peeve of mine due to our situation.

We went through some years where we had the same problem with our kids. If we didn’t watch and check temperatures they would miss every day.

Found this on that school districts’ website.

Here is that schools attendance policy.
http://www.screven.k12.ga.us/Portals/Screven/District/docs/Compulsory%20Attendance.pdf

I have seen much worse stricter policies than this...

I do however believe these laws are ridiculous and are tied strictly to funding for the schools. Being arrested because your kids miss a few too many school days is just wrong though, no matter what their rules are.

I have to think that the situation you describe may have reflected your children not a general rule. Your kids may have had other issues like an unhappy atmosphere at school, homework undone, test not studied for etc if this was a chronic problem.

I had 4, one of whom homeschooled due to illness after grade 8. If my kids said they were sick they were, unless when young they were occasionally unprepared for an assignment or test, which was my first investigation when a forehead wasn’t hot to the touch.

However when a child had an issue with a teacher or clique dynamics it most frequently presented with a sudden repeated passionate tries to skip school until I uncovered the underlying issue and communicated with the school/helped work out interpersonal issues.

Like every other time bureaucrats are involved the rules get more and more convoluted and the lack of flexibility means that the rules are the king not the education or the student’s well being. Schools are trying to do an impossible job and are destructive while trying to convince themselves that they know what they are doing and its best for the children.

I went through a period like that. Always somewhat of a rebel and just bored outta my mind in school. I skipped...a lot. And to be honest, there was not much my mother (or father) could have done to keep me there. My school was way out in an rural area and we'd leave first thing in the morning and walk back into the town/city. She'd drop me off to ensure I would get there, I'd still leave.

To hold her responsible would have been pretty unfair to her. Was she responsible? Sure, partly in a much deeper sense but it was also just my nature to rebel.