DS6 came home with a school handbook today. Some of you might remember that SD22 had a horrific school skipping habit the year she lived with us, and FDH condoned it. If she said she was "sick", he believed her. Or if he didn't, he just didn't want to fight with her about it. He always takes the easy way out, even if it's the worst way.

So I'm reading through the handbook, and it says any student who has over 8 absences in a semester will be referred to the County Prosecutors office for educational neglect. Well SD missed 47 days of school her jr year, so that is way over 8 per semester. I warned FDH repeatedly that he was going to end up getting his ass in trouble if he didn't start making her go the full slave driving 5 days a week instead of letting her miss one or 2 days a week. He ignored me. She continued to skip. Nothing ever happened. I honestly don't even know how she graduated. I can't imagine she just stopped skipping during her sr year, but maybe the students were told they couldn't miss more than X days or they wouldn't graduate, so she only missed the most allowed. And she would miss the full amount allowed, I know this. Anyway, I've been baffled for years as to why the school never contacted FDH about SD's ridiculous amount of absences.

This handbook says it only applies to students under the mandatory attendance age of 16. So there I have it. She was 16-17 when she lived here. Had she pulled that shit just a year earlier (when she was with BM), someone would have been in deep shit. It never occurred to me that it was allowed because of her age, because to me, graduating isn't optional, you don't drop out. All this time I thought it was just another example of how nothing ever touches SD. She gets whatever she wants and rules don't apply to her. Oh well, I have no doubt that she only hurt herself, even if she did manage to graduate. Little Miss "I'm going to college and I'm gonna be a nurse" hasn't been inside a classroom in 2 years or more and probably never will again.