Faking sickness

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How do they manage to enforce that? You cannot just call your kid in sick? I'm sure my mother never said, "My son won't be in school today because he's really sick of you tedious f*ers," but claimed I had a mild cold.

If I remember it right, I didn't get one a month. Fewer, but I got them in little stacks at the start of the school-terms, probably in response to me saying something like, "Oh god, how can I possibly make it 'til summer?" and they seemed almost like a lot. Enough to make the time seem doable, anyway. Probably it was some excellent life-skills lesson, because the limited number of tickets meant I had to choose my, uh, retreats wisely.

Funny bit: 'Mental Health Days' were not to be used to avoid tests or complete assignments that were due that day. Doing schoolwork while out of school on such a ticket expressly forbidden.

LoL, man that's how I felt about the people at my school. People do not give enough understanding towards how stressful our schools have become. A lot of schools cruelly punish students for having illnesses, by either asking them to do homework while sick. Or adding that students sick days, to how many days they are allowed to have off of school, like altogether.

I understand the schools need students to attend, but how is someone who is making it through the day puking in the bathroom, going to be able to learn anything. It also, at least for me, instilled a sense that I was guilty and responsible for my own illnesses. Which may have led to my self-harming, if I was sick self-harming would release serotonin and help me feel relived of my suffering.

I really am starting to wonder what the point of public schooling is anymore, other than to warehouse children. Blaming someone for something out of their control, is just being cruel. There is no other word for it. If there is a problem with students faking sick, it's not the student's fault, the schools need to take a look at themselves and see what they're doing wrong to make a child fearful of going to the school.

That's an incredible step for a parent to take - you are fortunate.

As a child, I had frequent stomach discomfort/pain and headaches. It was largely ignored.


M.

I would LOVE to be able to offer Allaura mental health days where I'd call her in sick without question. She needs them sometimes. Unfortunately, our school dist, has unbelievably strict attendence policy. Parents are only allowed to call a child in sick-or take family time off(as in a funeral or other important family events) 10 days a year. Anything over that number has to be verified with a doctor's note. In my town that grew way too fast for infrastructure to keep up, it's impossible to get appointments with the Ped unless it's serious. I wouldn't want to take my kid in tos ee the Dr. and expose them to even more sicky kid germs when they've just got a virus, a cold, whatever. It's a dumb policy. My Dr. office policy is that they will not write notes unless they actually do an exam on the child. If a kid misses more than 10 days, they call a SARB (School Attendance REview Board) meeting where they make the student and parents get up in front of school officials and plead their case before them- or they will report the parents to the police. I am serious.

unfortunately, our district was really into enforcement of their attendance policy last year- had to get son a dr's note every time he was out ( well, after the 1st 5 times).......the district put into place that , what they determined to be excessive absences, would result in a failing grade for his classes.........UGH!! !! !! !! !! !!

he's already had 1 absence this year, and he's only been in school for 1 1/2 weeks