To think this attendance mark is a bit harsh

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Got DCs reports home today

Our attendance and punctuality are marked red amber and green according to percentages, we went on holiday in September (authorised but obvs still count towards absences) so I knew our attendance wouldn’t be green but was expecting amber as the DC have only had maybe 2 days off each all year

Anyway DSs attendance is ‘red’ - he missed being in amber by half a percent so 1 school session which is annoying in itself, but then looking through the breakdown of the year the odd session that took him over the threshold was 1 afternoon where school sent him home because of an injury that happened during one of their lessons

Now I know I know they have to draw the line somewhere lalala
But it’s so frustrating that it’s happened like this and now DS won’t get the attendance/punctuality treat as a result

He was absent. That's how it works!

Seems fair to me I’m afraid. He wouldn’t have been on red if you hadn’t gone on holiday.

Well... he got injured. Things happen. That’s life.

Yabu. Children needing to be sent home with the odd injury or illness is something that can reasonably be expected to happen at some point over the school year. It's not that that took him over the threshold for absence, it was going on holiday. You can't expect to take a term time holiday and still have your child receive attendance awards.

Yes, I hate rewards for attendance, because the boy whose parents worked so hard to get him inti school whenever possible between appointments at teaching hospital centre of excellence and more routine but still important ones at the local hospital, will never get that kind of award. Even though his family had the best attitude to attendance and achieved marvels in really difficult circumstances.

I'd like to see the back of the whole damned concept.

He wasn’t in school for the afternoon register so they can’t mark him as being in.

The bar is not at 100% to allow for the very common childhood activities of getting sick and injured once in a while. You denied them the treat when you booked a term time holiday. Hope it was worth it!

Meh. I hate rewards for attendance too but can understand why it is monitored for safeguarding purposes. You knew when he was absent and why, the school were aware, he's only just over the threshold. It's fine.

If you hadn’t gone on holiday it wouldn’t have been red!!
God give me strength.
Can’t wait for my six-week holiday away from complaints like this.

He won't get the treat because you took him on holiday.

At least he got a holiday instead, unlike the poor children with chronic medical needs.

It's because you took them on holiday. HTH

Attendance treats are a load of crap. Ds1's has been below standard this year because he had the audacity to have flu. As in proper, can't walk, hallucinating flu. Thankfully our school pays lip service to incentives by giving them a certificate for 100% but that's it. None of mine will get it this year as all 3 have had a bug at some point, a broken limb or hospital appointments.

But you can't exactly complain if you took them out for a holiday.

He wasn’t in school so he was absent. And that absence isn’t what caused him to be red. That was the holiday you took.

Oh god I’d missed the last line of the OP

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You took him on holiday. That's why his attendance is red. It's hardly rocket science.

You get a cheaper holiday, he doesn't get an attendance reward. It's the obvious result.

Well DD went on the same holiday and wasn’t in the red so we can’t solely blame the holiday - and yes it was worth it thanks - so was the £3k we saved by taking it in term time

I never said I was going to complain (!)
And you may all be taking this slightly more serious than I thought

It’s just the injustice of half a bloody percent, not even a full percent!!
and if they were supervising properly he wouldn’t have been injured and sent home
But still - half a percent!!

The afternoon seems irrelevant to his attendance award when he had a term time holiday. Yabu.

Do you not know how attendance works? If you're not there, you're absent. DS wasn't there.

There were 48.6% of people who voted for sense in the Brexit referendum but the outcome was still to Leave. A consistent level on all school reports is perfectly fair, and even 0.1% below is below.

Ah yes, the injustice of it...

You took him on holiday in term time - your choice but I can’t believe you choose to believe that him being sent home for an injury was what took him over the threshold and not the holiday.

You are hilarious OP.

No it wasn’t just the holiday, but childhood illnesses and injuries are to be expected and the holiday is the part that you had control over.

You chose a holiday for sensible reasons, that means he misses out on a treat for attendance because his attendance wasn’t good enough because in addition to childhood illnesses and injuries, you took him on holiday. Surely the holiday is way better than the treat anyway?

Well sometimes kids miss out

Plenty will in your child's school - so you feel for them as well?

DD will miss out due to 3 stints in hospital this year - I'm grateful she's alive.

Both my kids don't get the attendance prize but they had more fun on holiday. Your ds is more likely to remember the holiday in 10 years than he is to remember getting or not getting the attendance prize.

Find more important things to care about!