Your son/daughter has seven absences.

[EgwaTlvdatsi]

This is what we just got back from our eldest sons school, and he's only a seventh grader...wth...

And it is written as to how the letters look, also...

Letter 1.

ABE HUBERT MIDDLE SCHOOL
1205 A STREET...GARDEN CITY, KANSAS...67846


DATE: 02/17/09

DEAR PARENT/GUARDIAN
THIS LETTER IS TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR SON/DAUGHTER HAS ACCUMMULATED SEVEN ABSENCES. TO HELP US AND YOUR CHILD FOR FUTURE ABSENCES WE WILL NEED A NOTE FROM YOUR DOCTOR TO VERIFY YOUR CHILD'S ABSENCE. THE NOTE WILL ALLOW US TO MODIFY YOUR SON'S/DAUGHTER'S ATTENDANCE RECORD.

wth is with all the capital letters? And wtf is with the doctors note? Are parents no longer competent to say if their child is sick or not?

Second letter

Attendance Information for Parents

Excused Absences:
Attendance is reported every period of the day. Parents/guardians are asked to call the school or send a note when their child will be absent from school. Excusable absences shall include medical or dental treatment, recuperation from illness, death or serious illness in the immediate family, unusual or unavoidable emergencies, or special situations deemed excusable by the administration. Excessive absences (more than 7 days during the school year) require a doctor's authorization or other form of verificatino in order to be excused.

Unexcused Absences:
For any absence not excused by the parent, the student's attendance shall be recorded as unexcused on attendance records.

Pre-Arranged absences;
Pre-arranged absences are discouraged. However, if necessary, a student in good standing in his/her classes with no prior attendance problems may make arrngements for a pre-arranged absence according to board policy JBD-R-2. Parents are responsible for notifying the schooll in advance if the absence will extend beyond the originally arranged days. Accumulation of more than 10 days will result in a reenrollment process and will require a TB skin test given.

The Kansas Truancy Law K.S.A. 721113 is stated below:
Whenever a child is required by law to attend school and is enrolled in school, and the child is inexcusably absent there from on either three consecutive school days or five school days in any semester or seven school days in any school year, whichever of the foregoing occurs first, the child shall be considered to be not attending school as required by law. A child is inexcusably absent from school if the child is absent there from all or significant part of a school day without a valid excuse acceptable to the school employee designated by the board of education to have responsibility for the school attendance of such a child.

Read through a bit of this, sheesh...http://usd262.net/modules/groups/hom...35d8f7e2074549

Am I wrong in thinking that this is really really wrong...?

[pinkmandy]

Yeah, they own your kids. Just ask them.

Homeschool. Private school. Something.

[torchbearer]

Are the truancy police after you ?

[LibertyEagle]

yeah, they own your kids. Just ask them.

Homeschool. Private school. Something.

qft

[MRoCkEd]

Dear Teacher,
I was indeed sick on all of those days.
Sincerely,
My Doctor

[tonesforjonesbones]

Yes do ANYTHING to get your kids out of indoctrination schools. They get money for every kid who attends...it's all about money. You could take your child to school until attendence is over and take them out that day and they wouldn't say a word as long as they get their dough. Tones

[heavenlyboy34]

Yes do ANYTHING to get your kids out of indoctrination schools. They get money for every kid who attends...it's all about money. You could take your child to school until attendence is over and take them out that day and they wouldn't say a word as long as they get their dough. Tones

I like that idea! I think I'll steal it if I ever have youngins and have to deal with this shit. Thanx, Tonesy! ~hugs~

[slothman]

Does anyone here think of required schooling as a form of slavery?
It's not just homeschooling that should be possible but no school at all if the parent wants it.

[coyote_sprit]

7 days? Serious? I skipped 3 months of school straight in 8th grade and they said nothing. They ended up sending a social worker bitch out though, so the next day I applied for home school.

[EgwaTlvdatsi]

My parents used to say that someone in my family died or some other problem and would take us on a vacation. I think that a family outing would be a "good" thing, but the way they state it,

Pre-arranged absences are discouraged.

, wth is that supposed to mean? If a family wants to go on vacation, the children aren't allowed to go? Or summer the only time of "freedom" a child has? Seems so damnable to me...

Also, I am 100% willing to do homeschooling, but my wife is one of those who believes that the school system is right I've tried so hard to convince her otherwise. I mean, hell, she was a straight A student, I was a droptout, yet I can out smart her 10 to 1...