Really bloody sick of schools going on about attendance.

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I have 4 kids. Eldest is in college.
We have NEVER been pulled up for attendance prior to 2020. Never. Always had over 97%, for each child every year.

2020 they were hardly in school alongside the whole coubtry. But attended when they were open.

2021. Well since September it's been an utter shit show. We had symptomless covid, which meant we had to isolate 10 days from PCR test.

They seem to have had every cold and stomach bug known to man.
One of DS's bust his knee and couldn't put any pressure on it for 3 days.

And I think the pressure of everything that's been going on really affected DD, who has SEN, and she's had a few days off when she's just been hysterical and so, so tired.

So I've had letters from 2 different schools about attendance. And I know DS college aren't happy with his.

But we've gone 12 years so far, with 4 different kids having constant attendance certificates awarded and it's not intentional!

What are we supposed to do if they have a temp/couch/have vomited when we are getting letters saying keep them home if they do?!

It pisses me off even more when they had the schools shut for half the year. They know things aren't normal right now.

Just fed up of worrying when someone gets a bug that I'm going to be threatened with another letter or even a fine!

Demanding medical evidence from a GP for your bog standard childhood illnesses is bonkers!!

Have you tried to get a GP appt pre-civil, let alone during covid. I spent 3 days hitting redial over 150 times each day to get a GP appt. I gave up in the end because, well, I already have a full time job I'm still suffering with really bad pain 6 weeks later but I wont try again. I'll just sit here and hope it'll resolve itself.

So no parent will relish the idea of trying to get a GP appt for evidence of a stomach bug or a cold

@bumblingbovine49 not good practice of your school to not have some sort of SENCO checking on welfare etc for EHCP students - an EHCP student with school refusal within my remit would mean that I’d be very worried needs weren’t being met, local authority would be roped in to actually act and we’d be trying to get things sorted