What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
Montana
OK....I'm asking because my lovely Ex-husband is accusing me of allowing our son to miss 144 days of school.
My math is as follows: 37 weeks (approx) x 5 day/wk=185 days of school (give or take a few days).
The child has missed 23 days this year. He has battled ear infections this year. And battled Doctors who didn't want to treat the infections aggressively or at all (after four rounds of amoxicillin *sp* over a 4 month period--FINALLY got a referral to an ENT and a prescription for augmentin *sp* and some steroids to reduce the swelling and irritation! Voila ear infection was gone...kid is 14 so they really didn't and don't want to put tubes in his ears---at least until this next visit and I have to insist they do something because he's since had another one!) And 3 of the days he missed were because we all had the Noro virus which resulted in a trip to the ER because of dehydration.
23 days is excessive without illness. I get that. Even with illness it's still a lot. I'm not thrilled that the kid missed that much school. I would have much preferred he feel like going to school and not be laying on the couch or bed! He's always made up the work, and kept his grades up.
I do believe had he missed 144 days I'd be a "bad" parent. I would not deserve to be raising him and his brother!!! 144 days would mean he only attended school 31 days!!!!!!
Is my math screwy? Have I made a serious error in my math? If I'm wrong in my math, please tell me. My math skills have been known to be sketchy at times! Obviously, I'm not that objective to too much information my ex feels I'm wrong about. I did divorce him for a reason!
Montana
OK....I'm asking because my lovely Ex-husband is accusing me of allowing our son to miss 144 days of school.
My math is as follows: 37 weeks (approx) x 5 day/wk=185 days of school (give or take a few days).
The child has missed 23 days this year. He has battled ear infections this year. And battled Doctors who didn't want to treat the infections aggressively or at all (after four rounds of amoxicillin *sp* over a 4 month period--FINALLY got a referral to an ENT and a prescription for augmentin *sp* and some steroids to reduce the swelling and irritation! Voila ear infection was gone...kid is 14 so they really didn't and don't want to put tubes in his ears---at least until this next visit and I have to insist they do something because he's since had another one!) And 3 of the days he missed were because we all had the Noro virus which resulted in a trip to the ER because of dehydration.
23 days is excessive without illness. I get that. Even with illness it's still a lot. I'm not thrilled that the kid missed that much school. I would have much preferred he feel like going to school and not be laying on the couch or bed! He's always made up the work, and kept his grades up.
I do believe had he missed 144 days I'd be a "bad" parent. I would not deserve to be raising him and his brother!!! 144 days would mean he only attended school 31 days!!!!!!
Is my math screwy? Have I made a serious error in my math? If I'm wrong in my math, please tell me. My math skills have been known to be sketchy at times! Obviously, I'm not that objective to too much information my ex feels I'm wrong about. I did divorce him for a reason!
