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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 155545" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I was thinking the same thing, Susie - if the judge had to actually give it a go himself. If only someone could say to him, "Your Honour, I'm not quite sure exactly what methods I am permitted to use, not how to implement them, in order to get my child to attend school AND actually make progress academically. Could you please take her for a week with me observing, so you can show me how I should be doing my job?"</p><p></p><p>It's a technique mentioned in a book I read years ago, "The Art of Coarse Acting", where an actor who is not too keen to try a director's brilliant idea can say, "Um, Cyril, I'm not quite sure exactly how I should 'ride the blow' when Fred hits me in the fact with the broken bottle. Could you please demonstrate this for us?"</p><p></p><p>I also agree - the idea of having to get a medical certificate for each absence is bad enough if you live in a place like Australia where our medical costs are heavily subsidised. But where you have to pay a fortune, PLUS have to travel great distances, PLUS as you said, try to get a squeeze in appointment at zero notice, PLUS what you didn't mention which is, how do you get a kid with migraine sufficiently vertical for long enough to achieve this?</p><p></p><p>We were fortunate with difficult child 3, that we had some semblance of a local GP at the time he was missing so much school, plus the school themselves held the truant officers at bay for us because they knew it wasn't malingering.</p><p></p><p>Here, they are slightly more reasonable with medical (at least to begin with) - you get three days' grace; after three days' illness you MUST have a medical certificate. This is not only for school, this is also for work. However, they can at any time give you a 'show cause' letter requiring you to get a certificate for every absence.</p><p></p><p>It really isn't fair.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 155545, member: 1991"] I was thinking the same thing, Susie - if the judge had to actually give it a go himself. If only someone could say to him, "Your Honour, I'm not quite sure exactly what methods I am permitted to use, not how to implement them, in order to get my child to attend school AND actually make progress academically. Could you please take her for a week with me observing, so you can show me how I should be doing my job?" It's a technique mentioned in a book I read years ago, "The Art of Coarse Acting", where an actor who is not too keen to try a director's brilliant idea can say, "Um, Cyril, I'm not quite sure exactly how I should 'ride the blow' when Fred hits me in the fact with the broken bottle. Could you please demonstrate this for us?" I also agree - the idea of having to get a medical certificate for each absence is bad enough if you live in a place like Australia where our medical costs are heavily subsidised. But where you have to pay a fortune, PLUS have to travel great distances, PLUS as you said, try to get a squeeze in appointment at zero notice, PLUS what you didn't mention which is, how do you get a kid with migraine sufficiently vertical for long enough to achieve this? We were fortunate with difficult child 3, that we had some semblance of a local GP at the time he was missing so much school, plus the school themselves held the truant officers at bay for us because they knew it wasn't malingering. Here, they are slightly more reasonable with medical (at least to begin with) - you get three days' grace; after three days' illness you MUST have a medical certificate. This is not only for school, this is also for work. However, they can at any time give you a 'show cause' letter requiring you to get a certificate for every absence. It really isn't fair. Marg [/QUOTE]
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