Student gets fined by school for going hunting

[Purebred Redneck]

She didn't get fined for hunting. She got fined for an unexcused absence - going to the baseball game, sleeping in too late, visiting your grandma when she's in town - they are "unexcused" absences. The only real excused absences are funerals, sick, or a school sponcered function.

Fabs is right - when we went to school all a parent had to do is call it in. Hell if the parents didn't call it in the school would call home.

I've worked with 2 schools the last 3 years. They are REALLY cracking down on school absences.
#1. there are public stats (at least in MO) that shows a school's attendence rate - and if it falls the school loses funding.
#2. Parents don't care if a kid misses school anymore. It has got to the point that if a kid tells his mom he just doesn't feel like going to school today - the mom will call the kid in sick. That's no joke.

Most of the time schools have a flat scale that if you miss X# of days you fail, you get the paddle for an unexcused, detention, etc. This is the first time I've heard of a fine.
I don't know about that school district - could be school board politics, could be because funding is cut by the gov, or could be a major crackdown on absentees.


Most of the time all you have to do is throw a fit and threaten action. Because I promice you there are minority or athletic students that are getting away with it.