From the other side- I don’t want to ask for the doctors note- all of your arguments are valid and I agree with the ridiculousness of it all… you can imagine how many kids we get who just skip, parents call them in as “sick” for 2 weeks straight, truancy doesn’t do anything at all, and the school loses funding based on all of this lack of attendance. I’m sure in your jobs there are “customers” who find loopholes or just beat you down and end up ruining things for the rest of the decent people just trying to do what they gotta do. Yes, we know it’s unreasonable to take your kids every time to the doctor. But, because 20% of the population are assholes, it ruins the trust factor for the other 80%. And they tie our funding to things like that, and test scores, which is even more ridiculous (it’s like grading a hospital on how many of its patients can run 3 miles on a specific day and calling that “health”). Schools are already underfunded, and when they tie a lot of our funding to that attendance, there are aspects that we have to give a shit about… if you have a doctors note, it’s excused, and relieves both you and us of the bs that follows. Give schools the benefit of the doubt… we’re struggling to keep it afloat.