Okay, I'll set the scene.
In my city, the school board has hired a thug from Central Casting to pose as a Deputy District Attorney, and gathered up several "community" figureheads and a few receptionists and secretaries on their lunch break, and one or two janitorial and facilities management staff to form an imposing and intimidating-looking panel of "board members" aimed at scaring ME into understanding that THEY will control my 3rd grader's life; THEY will determine if she's sick and needs to stay home; and THEY will have me ARRESTED if my dd is tardy or absent for any reason without a doctor's note.
The Dep DA was the speaker/interrogator/bad cop, while the others sat there as backdrop, more than a few nodding in understanding and agreement with my "defense" and explanations of how my dd's medical condition is treated, etc.. He came on accusing me of disobeying the law, yelled at me, told me I was essentially a liar and that I had no credibility as a parent based on my "record" from dd's second, first grade and Kindergarten years, of keeping my dd home from school when she is sick, repeatedly. He told me I had lost the right to determine myself if my child needs to stay home sick, that now they were assuming that right. He implied that just because my dd may SAY she is sick does not mean she is sick and she cannot be the one determining if she is sick. *&%#@!!! I respond that, hello, I am her MOTHER, I am in the house with her, and I determine if she is well enough to go to school...
Currently, the infraction that brought me before this attendance review board is that MY dd has three excused absences, including one for bereavement the second week of school, and one unexcused absence (home sick, but no doctor's excuse), three tardies and three lates. One more TARDY, and the dep DA orders me to be arrested, which the No Child Left Behind Act allows them to do, and actually for as little as ONLY three tardies in one school year. They want me to sign a medical release so they can get all of dd's medical records, which I sign so I can get the hmmff out of there, and immediately contact the medical records dept., her doctors and revoke the release, and ask for a letter, instead, from her dr. explaining the medical condition that makes her sick a little more often than some (restrictive airways). I don't want to give the school district carte blanche on my dd's medical records, on principle.
Okay, so I get out of that meeting and tell my dd we are taking her to school no matter how sick she is and if the nurse decides she not sick enough, I will sit in class with her, and that's just how it's going to have to be for the rest of the year. She doesn't want to do homeschooling; she has her friends, doesn't want to change anything about her social life with them.
WTF.
VF
In my city, the school board has hired a thug from Central Casting to pose as a Deputy District Attorney, and gathered up several "community" figureheads and a few receptionists and secretaries on their lunch break, and one or two janitorial and facilities management staff to form an imposing and intimidating-looking panel of "board members" aimed at scaring ME into understanding that THEY will control my 3rd grader's life; THEY will determine if she's sick and needs to stay home; and THEY will have me ARRESTED if my dd is tardy or absent for any reason without a doctor's note.
The Dep DA was the speaker/interrogator/bad cop, while the others sat there as backdrop, more than a few nodding in understanding and agreement with my "defense" and explanations of how my dd's medical condition is treated, etc.. He came on accusing me of disobeying the law, yelled at me, told me I was essentially a liar and that I had no credibility as a parent based on my "record" from dd's second, first grade and Kindergarten years, of keeping my dd home from school when she is sick, repeatedly. He told me I had lost the right to determine myself if my child needs to stay home sick, that now they were assuming that right. He implied that just because my dd may SAY she is sick does not mean she is sick and she cannot be the one determining if she is sick. *&%#@!!! I respond that, hello, I am her MOTHER, I am in the house with her, and I determine if she is well enough to go to school...
Currently, the infraction that brought me before this attendance review board is that MY dd has three excused absences, including one for bereavement the second week of school, and one unexcused absence (home sick, but no doctor's excuse), three tardies and three lates. One more TARDY, and the dep DA orders me to be arrested, which the No Child Left Behind Act allows them to do, and actually for as little as ONLY three tardies in one school year. They want me to sign a medical release so they can get all of dd's medical records, which I sign so I can get the hmmff out of there, and immediately contact the medical records dept., her doctors and revoke the release, and ask for a letter, instead, from her dr. explaining the medical condition that makes her sick a little more often than some (restrictive airways). I don't want to give the school district carte blanche on my dd's medical records, on principle.
Okay, so I get out of that meeting and tell my dd we are taking her to school no matter how sick she is and if the nurse decides she not sick enough, I will sit in class with her, and that's just how it's going to have to be for the rest of the year. She doesn't want to do homeschooling; she has her friends, doesn't want to change anything about her social life with them.
WTF.
VF
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