to think that if the school bus is late - don't penalise my child

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My teenager goes to school on the school bus, provided by the local council, run by a private firm.

My child has just bought home half yearly result card and their attendance is 81.8%, I thought this was odd, as I was only aware of 2 days off (1 day in the Autumn term ill and 1 day in the Spring term ill). Therefore I was concerned.

And contacted the school, all the other occurances have been due to them arriving late at school because the school bus arrives at school after registration. It is even timetabled to arrive after registration, therefore it is not mine nor my child's fault that they are late.

The bus collects them at 7am, the school is 25 minutes away by car, but because of the convoluted drive to get there, they arrive at school at 8.35am, registration is 8.30am, lessons begin at 9am.

AIBU to think this should not be marked as absence???

Sounds like "teenager" is missing registration and going straight to assembly.

Thank you for raising this OP, I've just become aware my ds is also late regularly even though he shouldn't be due to council bus running late.

He leaves at 7.30 already and there are no other buses :(

Ok spoken to school. Bus arrivals no longer going to be included, snow days are included.

Puts absence to 96.4 much better.

I'm glad the school is proactive to parents responses. Thank you for all letting me know that I was NBU.