you must carefully follow its rules governing absences. For example, if any medical absence counts as an excused absence, you can't label those absences unexcused. You might also have to follow certain procedures, such as warning the employee...
In the long run, chronic absenteeism, or the overall absence from school for at least 2 weeks of school, can lead to a myriad of adverse life outcomes including poor health, poverty and an increased likelihood of interacting with the criminal justice system, with impacts on students as ...