Children left out of attendance treat due to illness, including medical.

[ralphlauren]

My DS has Asthma and another condition which sometimes stops him attending school (or school have called for him to he collected)

Do you think that he and other children with medical conditions be given any special allowance so they do not miss out on treats/special events because they have not reached the % required?

I teach and my school do not follow this reward system. I would just like another perspective on this.
TIA

Cruickshank, I completely agree, it is very poor and it doesn't address the real problem. I think schools do this to box tick for Ofsted. An awful lot of the things that schools do is driven by the need to box tick for Ofsted sometimes at the expense of the children. This issue is symptomatic of wider issues in the UK education system. Its awful.

We've worked a way round this by managing to arrange Sen dds appointments between 9.30am and 12.30. She starts school at 8.30am. We can't have appointments out of school as private patients get those so instead of having an 8/8.30am appointment and her missing form and maybe one lesson with us travelling before school starts, she has a mid morning appointment and misses two to three lessons but gets her morning and lunch mark making school happy

I realise not all people can work appointment a this way I just thought I'd point out the stupidity of them being happier she misses three lessons but getting a mark than one lesson...

Sounds like discrimination to me. My son's school award certificates and he didn't get one once because I did the right thing and got him an early appointment to miss the least amount of lesson time possible. He was 20 minutes late and I had let them know beforehand. 100% attendance all year bar 20 minutes!! He was gutted and I was flabbergasted. BTW, I don't agree with penalising kids for things beyond their control anyway, ridiculous idea.

I was going to say what about discrimination but assumed that the schools would have thought of this and addressed it, given that the practices are so widespread? Hope i was wrong and this gives parents an angle.

I had meningitis as a young teen. The school had the cheek to send the school attendance officer to the house...as I lay unconscious on the ITU ward. I lost 4 months of schooling.

I feel sorry for children with long term medical conditions.