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Originally Posted by electroken
We can only dream about these. Often the school affiliation feels like shackles.
We can't take home-schooled kids from within our own town.
Except for large distances where air travel is preferred/required we must travel by bus. This is complicated by the fact that our school system's buses cannot leave the state, so travel has become very expensive (sometimes prohibitively so).
The option of going rogue exists but means the students would have unexcused absences for weekday events.
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We actually get absence exemptions for our events, which was not true our rookie year in 2008 (my freshman year). Our BoE is quite happy letting us be on our own, but will give our kids the absence exceptions, provided a teacher travels with us. We usually have a student whose parent is a teacher, so this hasn't been a problem for us so far.
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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
We have a similar policy although its a little more forgiving.
You can only have 20 excused absences (excused meaning your parents called) per year in every day courses and only 10 excused absences in 1/2 year courses.
All of our robotics competition absences count as exempt absences so they do not count towards our 20. Exempts only happen with school endorsed trips.
However, if you have a specific medical condition that will keep you out of school for extended periods of time you have to call for home bound instruction where tutors will come to your house (2 hours per week each subject) and that counts as attendance.
My freshman year I fractured my skull and got an epidural hematoma keeping me our of school for a month but none of the time I spent in the hospital or at home after the injury counted towards my absences.
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Our students have a similar policy, but I can't recall exactly what it is (it has changed since I graduated). But I think it's something like 5 excused/unexcused absences allowed per semester, and unlimited exemptions. The attendance policies (at least at my alma mater, we pull from multiple schools) are based on periods, not on days. They have an odd-even block schedule, so 4 periods a day, switching every day ("odd" days and "even" days. For a regional where they miss Thursday and Friday, they only miss 8 periods. Students at our other high school don't have a block schedule, and have 8 periods a day, so they miss 16 periods for a regional. Luckily, they have exemptions now, so they don't count toward the 5 limit.