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re: TN Lawrence County School System will no longer accept doctor's note for absences

Posted on 7/23/25 at 9:07 pm to
Posted by The Third Leg
Idiot Out Wandering Around
Member since May 2014
11555 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 9:07 pm to
Gen x parenting has been incredible and brought the rise of the tranny. Only a fool would question their parenting.
Posted by LSUFanHouston
NOLA
Member since Jul 2009
40134 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 9:18 pm to
80 percent of doc notes are faked. Maybe more now with AI

Tris policy is extreme but so is parents not forcing their kids to go to school.

Kids send BS Dr notes

Kids miss a lot of school

Kids fail testing

Parents want teachers and admins fired due to low scores.
This post was edited on 7/23/25 at 9:19 pm
Posted by LSUFanHouston
NOLA
Member since Jul 2009
40134 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 9:27 pm to
Last year my kid missed 3 days in a row (Thurs / Friday / Monday) because the school team she was on had a competition out of state.

The high school sent us a letter reminding us about the importance of daily attendance about the state truancy laws

The letter listed out the three days she missed.

Every kid on the team got the same letter.
Posted by Wabbit7
Member since Aug 2018
2265 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 9:38 pm to
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Your arse better be admitted to the hospital or dead.


So if you got a stomach virus or can’t get out of bed with the flu you want someone coming in? Hope they do and cough right in your mouth
Posted by LSU-MNCBABY
Knightsgate
Member since Jan 2004
25101 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 9:42 pm to
Kids are soft and should goto school but at the same time if I want to pull them for a trip frick the schools for trying to tell me I can’t.
Posted by Rebel
Graceland
Member since Jan 2005
141039 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 9:45 pm to
This is actually great in my opinion.

I have no idea what day to day life in Lawrence Cnty. But they elected a very firm school board.
If the citizens hate it, they can fire the board members.

Not to make this more political than it already is but this is what democracy looks like.
Posted by TigerintheNO
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2004
43969 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 9:46 pm to
17 absences is 10% of the 170 days of school, in Chicago over 40% of the students missed at least 10% of schools days.
Posted by dallastigers
Member since Dec 2003
9336 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 9:52 pm to
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The policy states that after just three absences, schools will start intervention. If the student misses school for eight or more days, they will be referred to juvenile court.


Probably should have set absences at 8 with a verified doctor’s note to make up work and avoid the first 8 absences with Dr notes being counted towards intervention and also towards being referred to juvenile court. Maybe a limit on how many of those 8 can be unexcused which should be treated differently.

Posted by Pedro
Geaux Hawks
Member since Jul 2008
37983 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 9:53 pm to
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100% chance a lawsuit comes from this. Especially if you have a kid that ends up with a communicable disease like whooping cough that the county’s health department requires them to stay home.
yea I did some research. There’s a few different federal guidelines you could argue against this with. Whether or not they’re successful idk but they’re lawsuits that will cost the district time/money.

Superintendent should’ve realized this probably wasn’t worth his job before coming up with this rule.
Posted by SquatchDawg
Cohutta Wilderness
Member since Sep 2012
18936 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 10:04 pm to
School Nazis.

If a kid is sick…or I want to take them out for a vacation….if they make up the work and pass the class WTF cares?

How about we cut back on the half days and work days and all that shite so the kids can have more excused absences?
Posted by Antonio Moss
The South
Member since Mar 2006
49034 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 10:06 pm to
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All this is gonna do is cost that district thousands in enrollment funds and cause a huge increase in home schooling



Net positive for society
Posted by spslayto
Member since Feb 2004
21528 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 10:10 pm to
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I may have missed 1 per year through all of high school


I had perfect attendance for the 4 years. Lol.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
71065 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 10:41 pm to
Someone bookmark this and bump it when they have to shut that schools down and go to virtual classes because of flu running rampant in the Winter.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
71065 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 10:43 pm to
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o problem here...just send your sick kid and let them deal with it. Winners all around!

By the way that is written the schools reserve the right to have their nurses then say your kid is too sick to be at school and send them home, marking the kid "tardy".

So, they're giving themselves an out to not have to deal with your sick, virus-riddled kid.
This post was edited on 7/23/25 at 10:44 pm
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
30777 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 10:50 pm to
Hire some Amish Mafia guys to do a drive by with a Mennonite driver through Lawrenceburg.
Posted by Coach72
Lafayette
Member since Dec 2009
1671 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 10:52 pm to
Here's the kicker - many parishes have an "Attendance Recovery" program where a student can stay after school and do some type of online work to erase those absences. It's a joke.
This post was edited on 7/24/25 at 7:43 am
Posted by Mouth
Member since Jan 2008
22758 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 10:53 pm to
As a parent this seems way extreme.

But if you ask my parents… this isn’t nothing. I was in elementary school in the 80s.

I remember the only award I used to get was the perfect attendance. I was a proud 8 yr old walking to the stage in front of the whole K-8 student body to that certificate.

Had to deal with just as much shite as the kids that made honor roll IMO.
This post was edited on 7/23/25 at 11:06 pm
Posted by Mouth
Member since Jan 2008
22758 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 11:05 pm to
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Here's the kicker - many parishes have an "Attendance Recovery" program where a student can stay after school and do some type on online work to erase those absences. It's a joke.


How is that a joke?

That’s a great compromise IMO.

Read my post above. I was forged with iron as a kid. But nowadays. If a kid misses school and makes up the days online… but still passes? What’s the big deal?

Parents will be outraged bc now they’re more responsible for their kid going to school. And if they can’t go to school you better tell them to turn off the screen time and help them make up the work for the missed days.

Parents are lazy asf now.

Posted by TutHillTiger
Mississippi Alabama
Member since Sep 2010
49797 posts
Posted on 7/23/25 at 11:18 pm to
So medical illness doesn’t exist in Tennessee, zero surprise.

Get ready for some serious mfering lawsuits rednecks, I could win these in my sleep. You will be writing some checks bitches
Posted by morganwadefan
TN
Member since May 2023
1410 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 5:41 am to
How are people even able to miss that many days?

Senior year of HS I had chicken pox. Pretty sure there is a several day window of being contagious. Also had knee surgery and was also in the hospital 5 days with an infection. Life happens.
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