heh i never had to worry about this in my school, you miss a day and they mark u absent, if you dont bring a letter they wait and add up those days and send a letter home, you then somehow misplace the letter and the days go missing as well, i apperently missed out 5 days in the year on my report, but in reality it was more like 25.
but yeh noobody will really care if u make the school look good, its in theirs interest to let it slide, but if ur bringing the school down they may use it against you so u dont count in their averages... then again if ur school is this small they may not care at all, i assume this is a tight friendly community u live in
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