My son was late to school this morning. He’s in Y7. He gets a public bus as there is no school bus and it’s too far to walk.
Buses are frequent but he always gets the one a few buses earlier so he’s in school in time for breakfast club. He’s had perfect attendance so far.
Today no buses turned up. He was at the bus stop for 30 minutes. A bus finally did show up and he managed to get to school just 5 minutes late with about 20 other students who also use the same bus route.
Thankfully he wasn’t given a detention (as is standard for lates that are your own fault) but they’ve knocked 2% off his attendance score so now sitting at 98%.
They get ‘points’ at the end of the week for 100% attendance which they can spend in the school shop.
So through no fault of his own he won’t be getting his reward.
AIBU to call the school tomorrow and complain? I don’t see how this is helpful to a student when it clearly wasn’t his fault. There was nothing he could have done to get to school on time. He already leaves earlier than he needs to and gets the earlier bus.