What is the name of your state? Iowa
My DH called me today and is livid. His DD was late to school again today. This is the 6th tardy this school year. (Last year she had 5 total.) She's in 1st grade.
He called mom about it (woke her up at 9:40 a.m.) and basically got a "well, she was late so what".
On one hand, he thinks oh well, she's only a "little" late to school, but on the other the hand: Mom cuts hair (self-employed), she makes her own hours and chooses to work about 2 in the afternoon or later until 7 or 8 at night if not later. She is on welfare (I think mom is proud of this as she doesn't hide that face but yet wears $100 jeans), has a b/f that has lived there for a couple years/doesn't work and she stays up all night (she sends ME email forwards all the time and many are after midnight). Mom doesn't have to get herself ready for work - only DD in the mornings. They also live about 6 blocks from the school so why is DD late this much. WE live 2 miles from school and have several stop lights/signs the entire way, we both work and have a DS who just turned 1 that we also have to get ready with MY DD who goes to the same school. She has never been late. Can you understand where he gets frustrated?
I only wanted to give a bit of a backstory on why Dad is wanting to make this stuff stop happening but mom doesn't think it's a big deal at all. I bend over backwards to get along with mom and Dad usually does too. However, if he doesn't agree with something that mom "wants" she is extremely difficult (yelling/screaming/cussing, threatens to cut off the "extra" time, etc. Although dad has finally figured out he doesn't have to give in because mom's "Thirsty Thursday" or whatever else always wins out
So there is a little of dad's rant. He wants to know what he could possibly do, legally or otherwise, to get the point across that school is mandatory and being late is not to be tolerated. He would understand if it happened once or even twice a whole school year but 6 times and she just finished 2nd qtr????
Here is his DD's attendance report so far:
Parent Access Attendance Report
Thu 08/23/07 through Thu 03/13/08
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Student # 220 DDs NAME HERE
Periods
Date 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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Wed 09/12/07 T U 0
Mon 11/12/07 T U 0
Thu 12/13/07 T U 0
Mon 02/04/08 T U 0
Thu 02/07/08 T U 0
Thu 03/13/08 A U 0
Totals
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Abs Ex . . . . . . . . . .
Abs Unex . 1 . . . . . . . .
Tdy Ex . . . . . . . . . .
Tdy Unex . 5 . . . . . . . .
My DH called me today and is livid. His DD was late to school again today. This is the 6th tardy this school year. (Last year she had 5 total.) She's in 1st grade.
He called mom about it (woke her up at 9:40 a.m.) and basically got a "well, she was late so what".
On one hand, he thinks oh well, she's only a "little" late to school, but on the other the hand: Mom cuts hair (self-employed), she makes her own hours and chooses to work about 2 in the afternoon or later until 7 or 8 at night if not later. She is on welfare (I think mom is proud of this as she doesn't hide that face but yet wears $100 jeans), has a b/f that has lived there for a couple years/doesn't work and she stays up all night (she sends ME email forwards all the time and many are after midnight). Mom doesn't have to get herself ready for work - only DD in the mornings. They also live about 6 blocks from the school so why is DD late this much. WE live 2 miles from school and have several stop lights/signs the entire way, we both work and have a DS who just turned 1 that we also have to get ready with MY DD who goes to the same school. She has never been late. Can you understand where he gets frustrated?
I only wanted to give a bit of a backstory on why Dad is wanting to make this stuff stop happening but mom doesn't think it's a big deal at all. I bend over backwards to get along with mom and Dad usually does too. However, if he doesn't agree with something that mom "wants" she is extremely difficult (yelling/screaming/cussing, threatens to cut off the "extra" time, etc. Although dad has finally figured out he doesn't have to give in because mom's "Thirsty Thursday" or whatever else always wins out
So there is a little of dad's rant. He wants to know what he could possibly do, legally or otherwise, to get the point across that school is mandatory and being late is not to be tolerated. He would understand if it happened once or even twice a whole school year but 6 times and she just finished 2nd qtr????
Here is his DD's attendance report so far:
Parent Access Attendance Report
Thu 08/23/07 through Thu 03/13/08
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Student # 220 DDs NAME HERE
Periods
Date 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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Wed 09/12/07 T U 0
Mon 11/12/07 T U 0
Thu 12/13/07 T U 0
Mon 02/04/08 T U 0
Thu 02/07/08 T U 0
Thu 03/13/08 A U 0
Totals
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Abs Ex . . . . . . . . . .
Abs Unex . 1 . . . . . . . .
Tdy Ex . . . . . . . . . .
Tdy Unex . 5 . . . . . . . .
I was terribly moody during that stage! 