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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 408533" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>My son was in 8th grade and managed to miss 88 days. I would literally either put him on the Special Education bus. You know, the short one, which should have been able to keep an eye on him. Or I would physically drive him to school where he was in a self contained classroom. At the school I would get out of my car, walk him into the school, physically hand him to the teacher by placing his hand into the MALE teachers hand and tell them "Here, he is yours and I am leaving him in your custody." Then I would go back to my car, drive to my job. He had to be at school by 7:30 or so. I would be in my office and some of my co-workers didnt have to be in until 8:30 and I would have them tell me that they saw my son walking someplace in town!</p><p></p><p>I would wait about an hour and call the school. Yep...he wasnt there. How pray tell can a kid who is in a self-contained classroom go missing after the first couple of times? And why didnt they call me? I couldnt leave work all those days to go look for him either. He would wander all over my small town finally showing up either at home or back at school to get a ride home. I wanted them to fail him for 8th grade due to absences but they wouldnt. I had been telling him all year long that if you miss over so many days (as it says in the handbook) that you will fail. Again...they made a liar out of me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 408533, member: 1514"] My son was in 8th grade and managed to miss 88 days. I would literally either put him on the Special Education bus. You know, the short one, which should have been able to keep an eye on him. Or I would physically drive him to school where he was in a self contained classroom. At the school I would get out of my car, walk him into the school, physically hand him to the teacher by placing his hand into the MALE teachers hand and tell them "Here, he is yours and I am leaving him in your custody." Then I would go back to my car, drive to my job. He had to be at school by 7:30 or so. I would be in my office and some of my co-workers didnt have to be in until 8:30 and I would have them tell me that they saw my son walking someplace in town! I would wait about an hour and call the school. Yep...he wasnt there. How pray tell can a kid who is in a self-contained classroom go missing after the first couple of times? And why didnt they call me? I couldnt leave work all those days to go look for him either. He would wander all over my small town finally showing up either at home or back at school to get a ride home. I wanted them to fail him for 8th grade due to absences but they wouldnt. I had been telling him all year long that if you miss over so many days (as it says in the handbook) that you will fail. Again...they made a liar out of me. [/QUOTE]
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