You have alot of faith in the school system.
vlv8vic, is it common practice to ring a parent if a child is away (can't remember if your primary school or high school)
I certainly can't speak for all primary schools but the handful i have worked at wouldn't know for sometime if a kid had wagged. We take a list of a morning in the class then send the list to the office at the school i teach at. It could be 9:15 by the time we mark the list, 9:20 by the time it gets to the office and anything up to 1pm by the time the office staff have entered this list into the computer. At 2pm we do it all again.... That leaves quite sometime before parents would be called even if this system was used (which it is some places, not others).
There are certain kids who for family reasons are away often, we tend to not think too much about it when they are away. Some families seem too thick to write a note or make a phonecall.
Well i know primary school are alot stricter and usually ring if a child is in school then is not? If he had been watched going into the school by mummy and daddy , im sure a teacher would have spotted him.
We have 700 kids walk through the gate anywhere between 8am and 930am.... yeah right!!! Once i mark names down it could be 11am before i have a break to get to the phone to ring a parent to see where the kid is - if i have to leave a message it is then almost 2pm before i have a chance to see if they have called me back. Little Johnny could have had a ball around town in that time.
I'm not saying i like that the system works like that, but that is how it is and while we have truants we will have problems.
OP - As mentioned above the Principal should be able to sign a stat dec to say your brother was in school .....if he was actually there.
