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State Board of Ed Defines Excused Absences

All Connecticut public schools will adhere to new policy.

 

 

You'll have to think twice the next time you decide to pull the kids out of school for a bit of fun outside the classroom - the Connecticut State Board of Education has laid down the law on what constitutes as an excused absence from school. 

According to a report from the Hartford Courant, the State Board of Education developed a new policy that states students with over nine absent days will only be excused in such cases as deaths in the family, illness, religious holidays and other emergencies. 

According to the Hartford Courant, this is the first time Connecticut's Board of Education has provided public schools throughout the state with a consistent definition for excused absences.

The policy is strict as even students missing class to spend time with military family before deployment would be penalized, according to the Hartford Courant. 

Read the full article on the Hartford Courant's website.

MC July 10, 2012 at 01:09 pm
When can we, as a local school community, and through our local school board, decide what's right and what works for our local school system? They rationalize by saying it "needs to be consistent" throughout the state, but has anyone asked why? There is no reason (other than more "top-down" control over our schools, thereby less control for parents). Fine if our local schools make this designation because we feel it's necessary. Boy, people better wake up, because while everyone's busy trying to earn a living, Democrats are busier working full time to dream up new laws, new regulations, new ways to place demands on us, and new ways to control our lives.
Tom July 10, 2012 at 01:15 pm
Welcome to the new world. People seem to want government to play a larger role in their lives. Obamacare is just the beginning. Just wait until the government starts telling you what services you can have. If the public continues to let government grow and grow, before you know it they will be telling you what you can and can't do, where you can and can't go. Hmmm where have we seen that before? Anyone?
Glen K Dunbar July 10, 2012 at 02:49 pm
True MC and Tom. I have been complaining about "the system" all along yet they tell me I am the one who is crazy... Go figure. People need to stand their ground and let the Govt know we pay the tax. We are the boss. We refuse to buckle and comply.
In a polite manner of course (I have to state it this way) for me...if someone tell me I have to do something. I shut down and try NOT to do it. If someone tell me I can't do/have something...I tend to want to go ahead and do it anyhow. Especially, since most of the laws and situations are a bunch of horse feathers/nonsense. GLEN
Drama Mama July 11, 2012 at 12:34 am
Totally agree with you on thisl We need to fight this "Edict" from the State Board of Ed. I see so many things wrong with this. Sick kids being sent to school when they should have been kept home...kids staying 1/2 day when they should be sent home sick....plus the loss of local control of our schools. Too many bureaucrats dreaming up new laws....
mary parker July 11, 2012 at 02:48 am
My daughter suffers from kidney infections and misses a lot each year due to her illness. I had to threaten a law suit against the school because the thought I was just keeping her home for no reason. Bring it on school board. I will sue them. She came close to dyining twice, I will not risk her life to attend school when she has 105 temperature and has be out for more than 9 days already. Even with her doctor signing a doctors medical note they still try to say she is not sick enough to miss school. So when I am forced to send her and she dies, whatch out school board.
Glen K Dunbar July 11, 2012 at 01:28 pm
Mary. That is too bad. I am sorry. Best to your daughter. Mary, I would just take what time Your child needs. If She is not feeling well then She needs to stay home and rest. It is NOT her fault or Your fault. Why do they try to tell you it is no reason? that is terrible. You showed them a Dr note too?? That is so unfair of them. I admire the fact you are putting your foot down and taking care of your child. That is the important thing. Good luck
GLEN
CONCERNED CITZIEN 3 July 11, 2012 at 02:14 pm
Drama Mama , doesn't it say in this very article , kids are allowed to go beyond the 9 in case of illness? If so your sick kid argument holds no water
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