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Originally Posted by wednesday
As well as the issues with NCLB, most schools' funding is based on attendance. For example say the school has 100 kids, but on any given day only about 95 kids are there--well then the school only gets money for 95 kids. So that makes schools want to be really tough about absences. I'll bet that if the child shows up and then is sent home, it is not counted as an absence.
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Hmm, well attendance policies like those make me even more determined to hs my future children, no $$ for them :LOL
I'm currently in college and they've got similarly idiotic policies here, I've already decided that if I'm really sick on a day when I have a test or something, I'll take the bus into school and ask the professor if I can take the test at a later time in person because it'd be easier than getting to the doctor without a car and paying for a checkup. Of course, my university has another spiffy aspect to the attendance policy, notes from the on campus health center don't count.
Thank goodness I only get sick once a year if that.
