My son is in lower sixth and due to anxiety and other issues he already has low attendance, I believe it is currently sitting at 80%. The school have agreed that he can stay at home and study in his free periods but must attend all his timetabled lessons.
All his frees are mostly in the afternoons straight after lunch which is when afternoon registration is done and he told me he signs himself on the sheet in the study centre so he gets himself marked present despite not being there, I doubt the school would allow that if they knew but they haven't said anything.
However, on Tuesday morning he had a free double first 2 periods and he usually goes in as normal if he has frees in the morning but on Tuesday he didn't go in for the free lessons and decided to go in after break. He said he emailed his form teacher and told her that he would be in late and would it be possible for them to record him as study leave for the morning as the home study was agreed, he then signed the late book as home study that was agreed. He then said he got one of his subject teachers to check the register to see what he was marked as for the morning and he told me they marked him using code N - no reason provided for absence.
I'm in NI so the study leave code counts as approved educational activity here which counts as a presence, although he isn't on study leave am I right In thinking that since he had a free period on Tuesday morning and it was agreed he could be at home that they should have recorded him as code S for study leave instead of code N?
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My son's school recorded his absence as unauthorised
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user400 · 17/03/2018 16:05
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