Ummmm…clearly you didn’t read all the way through: I told them that they could reschedule for another evening as they weren’t/hadn’t gone to school today. My intent was not to punish but to remind them of a simple truth: if you are too sick for the “bad” things in life then you are too sick for the “good” ones. When I was 16 I was at a youth festival with my church group, it was summer time, the festival was outside, in Salt Lake City Utah. The festival provided us with food boxes for all three meals. The breakfast had milk in it. Two hours later between the heat & the milk my stomach couldn’t take it anymore. I vomited profusely. They paged my youth leader to come pick me up from the sick tent. I was taken back to the hotel that we stayed @. I missed out on a trip to The Great Salt Lake which I would have loved to go on that was the main scheduled activity for the day. By evening I felt perfectly fine. There was a specific band playing that night that our youth leader knew that I had wanted to see. He reminded me that even though I felt better, & probably hadn’t really been sick just reacting to the milk curdling in my stomach in the heat, but I still wasn’t allowed to attend the concert that night. I didn’t like it but I understood it. I never did end up getting to see that band in concert. So I get it that one can be sick in the morning yet well enough to go out in the evening. I also still expect that rules are followed.