Unofficial visit an excused absence from school?

[fastpitchaddict]

Dad is taking an unofficial visit next week. She will miss a day of school. Is the absence excused for visiting a college before being a senior in high school? Her grades will suffer if she can't make up the work.

 

[fastpitchaddict]

DD is taking the visit, though I wish my dad could see her now. He's been gone since she was five. I hope he would be proud of her hard work.
Gotta love auto-correct on the iPad.

 

[riseball]

Depends on the school policy. However, most will excuse if arranged in advance. School administrators can be real jerks when it comes to athletes. I often had to escalate matters. The AD may advocate on your behalf with dolt teachers. Arrange the absence in advance and do not take no for an answer.

 

[quincy]

Why wouldn't a phone call to the school be an accused absence ? Is she missing a lot of school ?

 

[Greenmonsters]

High school administrators likely will be more receptive to the absence if you characterize it as a "college visit" rather than an unofficial visit with the softball coach.

 

[wichita]

At our school it is an excused absence but we had to ask a counselor because the first people we asked at the school didn't know so they just told us it wasn't excused

 

[fastpitchaddict]

Thank you. DD will miss a full dayof school. The college she is visiting is several states away. I'll call DD's counselor today.

 

[iMlearning]

Our school allows it and we've had no problems with a note from the college admissions office.

 

[JAD]

Every school district makes their own policies within state guidelines, but we were told that my DD had to be a junior or senior for a college visit to be considered an excused absence.

 

[SB23]

In our school district you have to get a note from the admissions department of the visiting school and once you have submitted the note to the attendance department you will then be granted an excused absence.