Before I go on, I want to say its nice to get perspectives from both parents and teachers as far as school policy goes and notifications of absences and such. I can totally understand teaching children responsibility and making sure they can take care of themselves. However, bottom line they are still children. In the case of absences I am trying very hard to understand why an absence would not be noted as something important to confirm/follow-up on, or handled in such a 'matter of fact' manner at some schools these days. I understand the policy that the teacher must call the office and the office takes it from there. Its then the employee's in the office who have the responsibility of confirming a child's absence with the parent. Should this be more of a priority for the office employees, especially in this day and age where unfortunately, missing children/abductions are increasing? Just a thought, is all.
