{"id":19212,"date":"2016-10-13T12:21:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T16:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=19212"},"modified":"2016-10-13T12:21:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T16:21:26","slug":"absences-community-service-due-to-absence-even-with-dr-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/absences-community-service-due-to-absence-even-with-dr-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Absences: COMMUNITY SERVICE DUE TO ABSENCE EVEN WITH DR NOTE"},"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%20COMMUNITY%20SERVICE%20DUE%20TO%20ABSENCE%20EVEN%20WITH%20DR%20NOTE\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Cara:\u00a0 Is it really legal for a school to NOT accept a doctors note &#8211; of ANY kind, to be excused from absence \/ hours.. my children&#8217;s middle school has a policy of&#8230;<br \/>\nMISS 2 DAYS IN ONE QUARTER = COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS even with an excused note from the dr. what are children supposed to do when they need their BRACES checked or adjusted, etc. This is down right WRONG to me. Its intimidating to the children to even go to a dr when sick, bc they are scared of having to OWE community service. I need to know, before I contact the school. My daughter was threatened if she missed 1, yes 1 more hour, she would owe&#8230;WHAT?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cara:\u00a0 Is it really legal for a school to NOT accept a doctors note &#8211; of ANY kind, to be excused from absence \/ hours.. my children&#8217;s middle school has <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/absences-community-service-due-to-absence-even-with-dr-note\/\">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-19212","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\/19212","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=19212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19219,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212\/revisions\/19219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}