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At Eastview high school there is an attendance policy. The attendance policy is that you can only have eight maximum absences a quarter. Most students don’t agree with the policy but everyone attending Eastview has to apply by the rules. Many students have got sick and missed school and had too many absences and failed or got no credit for a class. And to students that is not fair after all the hard work and effort they put in the class is gone after they reach eight absences. I feel that as long as students are attending school and not failing they should be able to pass the class if they are over the eight absences. Many students would agree with this so I interviewed three Eastview students Ribka, Sam, Sarah to see what they had to say.
The first question I asked them was do you think that the eight absence policy is fair? And they all kind of agreed that it wasn’t because you shouldn’t have to worry about failing a class or getting no credit if you miss school. Also they stated that when you are sick you miss school a lot and that not fair because you can’t always make it to school when you’re not feeling good. The policy doesn’t always excuse your absences when you’re sick because it is not a reasonable excuse to be gone and it is to parents and students. I also agreed with the student. Missing school isn’t something high school students should do on regular bases but if sick you should be able to miss school and not be held accountable for it. You can’t really control how sick or how long you will be ill because it is not known. The only way you can possibly do that is if you go to the doctor they can tell you what is wrong and possibly give you medication so that illness can go away. Besides being sick and missing school it’s still not fair to put a limit on missing school for students who actually have a legit reason to and still don’t get excused so it doesn’t affect their grade for the class that they have missing day’s in. students also think eight is not enough. Mostly students think that eight isn’t enough it should be ten they would say when I asked. But I think the policy will help because students do abuse the policy by skipping school for no reason at all and still expect to get credit in a class that they have been missing more than eight days and that’s why I think the policy stands were it does because of students who do this.