I was reading through my backlog of Raymond Chen’s The Old New Thing when I finally got to this article: Parents billed when kids miss school
The article reminded me of, I believe, Sophomore year high school, where I’d built up a small number of parental-excused absences. Near the end of the year, we received a notice from the school that if I had one or two more absences, excused or no, I would be sent to truancy court at the county seat (which is an annoying length away from the largest city in the county).
So, because I had some excused absences build up over the course of the school year (dentistry, orthodontia, a few other things) and was easily maintaining a grade average of B or more, I would be sent to truancy court.
Y’know, I wonder. Would they have made me ’skip’ school to go to truancy court for having too many excused absences? At least that one would be government excused, I suppose.