School attendance incorrect do I just let it go?

@lanthanum "If a pupil is taken off the school's roll, then their place should be offered to anyone on the waiting list for that year group. You really don't want to be taking them off the school roll as a temporary measure."

That may be true in the UK (or England) but the OP is not in the UK and refuses to say where she is, so we are throwing probably-incorrect advice into a vacuum.

If a pupil is taken off the school's roll, then their place should be offered to anyone on the waiting list for that year group. You really don't want to be taking them off the school roll as a temporary measure.

Usually something like this can go down as an educational trip, provided its worth is agreed by the school. I used to run an inter-school day trip (for pupils who had been nominated by their school to attend Saturday masterclasses), and I know one or two schools needed a bit of persuading to put it down as an authorised educational trip, but once they realised that's what other schools were doing, they were fine about it. It's usually best to do the negotiating in advance.

Although you mentioned him being on a national excellence training programme, you also said it was more of a "intercultural exchange". I wonder if the head doesn't see it as an essential part of their training. There might be a difference between a national under-16s skiing training camp, and going with some of the squad to watch the winter olympics, for instance.

"DC has a friend who is off to the states for 2 terms when their parent does a sabbatical according to head they are going to get 2 terms of unjustified absence."

In their case, they would be taken off roll, and there would be no guarantee that they get their place back on return.

"The ? Isnt country specific, I’m not asking about the code I’m asking about disagreeing with a head and pushing back and whether you found attendance had long term consequences."

You have captured the entire point in your question. It's country specific. I'm England, yes, increasingly, there are consequences. Fines, school attendance orders, etc. Possibly not in your country, but how would we know??

“Hence I am trying to ask people with experience”.

How on earth does anyone know if they have experience of the situation or not when you refuse to say what country you are in and which rules you are referring to?

“And whether you found attendance had long term consequences”

We don’t know what the specifics of the rule is.

we don’t know what country you’re in, nor the regulating body.

how on earth do you think anyone on MN will have the slightest clue what the long term impact of your how your child’s absence has been recorded is likely to be?

and we don’t know your Head. So we wouldn’t have a scooby how he/she is likely to respond to you pushing back in their decision.

It matters because your whole argument centres about the head being wrong. So that is the essential point. If the head is wrong, it might be worth fighting. But you'd be amazed how many posters say that something is wrong, provide the relevant rules, and they say the exact opposite of what they think they do.

So, if you won't say where you are, or what the codes should have been, etc., and what the consequences are in your area, how can anyone give a reasoned argument for whether to pursue it or not?

Maybe you missed the bit about the school not being in the UK? I have literally explained it to you

And you have clearly missed people asking which country you are in? Is there a MN equivalent in your country to ask?
Did other children go on the same intercultural exchange? What was their absence put down as?

And yet you still can’t apparently paste the very clear rule that applies to you so this is clearly pointless.

No point getting into gossip about other families, you have no idea what their situation is or what has been agreed with the school. That’s none of your business and not relevant.

Why do you take issue with explaining which piece of the guidance you feel applies?

Plus is there a reason you didn’t agree this with the school before he went? It seems like a given that any absence would have to be agreed by the school. If you had discussed it in advance you would have know about the 5 day rule.
Were you really just going to take your son out for 2 weeks initially and not inform the school in advance?

Did you contact the school to unenroll them. I would assume this would require you to sign some paperwork. Also to re-enroll them surely would also require a parent's signing something.

At the end of the day you took your child out of school for something not organised by the school and they weren't unwell. Maybe you should have recognised what the implications would be before you took them out? Rather than changing the 'coding' I would ask if there was another way your child could still take part on what they are going to miss out on. Volunteering within school or something similar?

It depends on your country again, I would think, as to how much school attendance is taken into account by other organisations.

I would want the attendance record to be correct, but especially if it meant my child was subject to sanctions that otherwise shouldn't apply. Like being prevented from attending year group events, or academic things like being granted extensions for school work that otherwise they would have been able to get.

Its just weird you’re claiming the wording is incredibly black and white, yet the school disagree with you and you haven’t incudes the specific rule you feel applies in your situation so ultimately I’m not sure what you want from anyone on here.
If you share the specific guidance you feel applies perhaps people could help but otherwise you say one thing, the school disagree.

I think that nobody here will be able to help unless you say which country you are referring to. In England, there is no code to account for these circumstances.

In what circumstances though?
Surely they don’t unenroll for every single absence or there wouldn’t be a series of other absence codes in the first place? So what specifically makes you feel that this absence needs to be unenrolled but the school feels differently?
If every child is unrolled for any absence why would there even be an official attendance record?