According to the school, they place an automated phone call every time the student is absent so, supposedly, they got 272 phone calls notifying them of absences.
Yeah, this never would have flown at my high school. My school's secretary personally called my parents the first time I ever missed a class with an unexcused absence, and that was a single class, not a full day. At the very least, after the first few unanswered automated phone call, a human follow-up should have been made.
Yeah well that seems like a beautiful cover your ass excuse "our robot contacted them 272 times, so our work was done" – ok well did anyone check to see what's going on with a kid who's missed that many days? did anyone check to see if the mom even picked up the phone? or if the number was valid?
