{"id":18377,"date":"2019-08-12T10:10:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T14:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=18377"},"modified":"2019-08-14T10:23:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T14:23:53","slug":"unexcused-absences-for-504-mental-health-appointments-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/unexcused-absences-for-504-mental-health-appointments-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Absences: UNEXCUSED ABSENCES FOR 504 MENTAL HEALTH APPOINTMENTS &#8211; DISCRIMINATION?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Absences%3A%20UNEXCUSED%20ABSENCES%20FOR%20504%20MENTAL%20HEALTH%20APPOINTMENTS%20-%20DISCRIMINATION%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Karen:&nbsp; My question is can I have that my daughter be given excused absences for attending her psychiatric appointments? My superintendent and high school principal say they are unexcused and that they count toward absences that will assist in determining if she will have to take her finals at the end of the semester. Students in our district are given a &#8220;free \/ excused&#8221; day if they go to an IHSA finals event as long as they check-in with the teacher in charge. In many instances, these students check in and then leave for the day to do whatever they want, but my child can&#8217;t go to a psychiatric appointment or counseling appointment without it counting against her. The school has written medical documentation of her anxiety disorder and sleep disorder, but still will not excuse her. They say the finals rule is an incentive and that they aren&#8217;t discriminating against her, but it sure doesn&#8217;t feel fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen:&nbsp; My question is can I have that my daughter be given excused absences for attending her psychiatric appointments? My superintendent and high school principal say they are unexcused and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/unexcused-absences-for-504-mental-health-appointments-discrimination\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1342],"tags":[1346],"class_list":["post-18377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","tag-a"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24894,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18377\/revisions\/24894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}