Would you challenge a school if they marked a child down as 'sick' even if they were at school that day?

[Meglet]

DS didn't have any days off last term. I know this as I took him there and picked him up, he wasn't late and no sick days. He's in reception so he's hardly old enough to get there under his own steam or bunk off.

We've just had last terms attendance report and he was marked down sick for 2 days so according to them he only has 96% attendance.

I'm out-of-proportionally annoyed about this . I hope he hasn't missed out on any certificates and don't know how I can prove he was there everyday.

I hope you've got it sorted by now but I would definitely say something. Absence reporting is important for lots of reasons and it would concern me if it wasn't being done properly.

But why"challenge" and "rant" and "annoyed" and all these other strong words?

Somebody made a clerical error- put the little cross on the wrong line or something. The boxes on most registers are tiny. Or the class busy-body ( aka my dd) said "No, Miss, little Meglet's not in today" when he was actually in the loo and Miss forgot to check.

Point it out to the school and they will put it right. No big deal.

All sorted .

I spoke to his teacher (nicely) after school. The office staff called me on my mobile before we'd even left the playground, apologised and corrected it. It was just a typo after all and the actual register had him marked as 'present'. So he has 100% for last term now.

Hurrah :)