So I just got my high school's paper. Once again, our teachers are rewriting the attendance policy. And parts of it are perfectly reasonable, but the majority of the new policy displays no logic whatsoever.

Basically, the New Attendance policy is like this: The number of unexcused absences allowed is 20 per year instead of 12 per semester (basically, 4 days have been cut off). This makes perfect sense because the previous amount of allowed days was a bit much. Here's the part that makes no sense whatsoever:

What counts as an excused abscence:
- You're absent for religious reasons.

What's not excused:
- You're sick.
- You're taking your driving test.
- You're at guidance or the nurse.
- You're on a field trip.
- You're taking a vacation. (this makes sense to some extent)
- You're in court.
- You're visiting a college.
- You're out of a period for a performance. (Gamespot for some reason won't allow me towrite the letters c, l, a, s, and s together)
- You're absent because a family member died or is sick.

Almost all of these are pretty logical reasons to miss a day of school. So that is where logic dies. I can see this new policy is going to work out just fine. :p