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How many days can you skip school without a certificate, according to the law not to drive to school
Here it is – the height of the season for colds and harmful ARVI. In the kindergarten, everything was simple: the teachers explain in detail when you can skip the kindergarten, when you can’t, when you can carry a certificate, and when you can do it. At school, things are a little different.
“Well, again, he poured something, complains about a headache, his eyes are sad,” says Irina, mother of seven-year-old Tima, sadly. The boy went to first grade this year. From habit, of course, it is difficult. Not because of a cold – Ira knows how to cope with it. Is it possible to skip school so as not to drag the child to the clinic again? There, after all, in the corridors, a weakened organism can pick up some other rubbish …
Reasons not to take your child to school
In the kindergarten, the child’s immunity is just being formed. A baby can get sick 15 times a year – and this is normal. But the child will get stronger by the school. However, all children are different, and while some easily get used to school, others take time to adapt. Sensitive babies can even get sick from an excess of impressions and worries. If the malaise is caused by emotional overwork and is expressed only in fatigue and fever, it is not a sin to rest at home for a day or two. Moreover, psychologists also advise sometimes to allow the child to relax and skip school for no good reason – and this also applies to adolescents.
Sometimes there is such a nuisance as a mild digestive upset, forcing you to skip classes. If the mother does not need a sick leave, and there is someone to look after the child, it is not necessary to take him to the clinic. There really are now full of sneezing and coughing children. The risk of catching an infection that will exclude a student from the educational process for a long time is absolutely not worth it.
Another reason not to take children to school is family circumstances. It happens that the parental leave does not coincide with the vacation, there is a holiday or an urgent departure. Children-athletes do not attend lessons during the competition period. In all these cases, the student will not be able to present a certificate to the teacher.
The law “On Education of the Russian Federation” does not say anything about how many days you can not attend school. There is a SanPiN for preschool institutions, where it is written that after 5 days of absence from the kindergarten, a certificate from a doctor is needed. There is no such condition in the sanitary standards for educational institutions. Schools themselves determine the allowable period of absence from class. There are internal rules of the educational organization that parents are required to follow. It is in them that the possibilities and consequences of skipping classes are prescribed.
In most cases, 3 days is considered the norm. For this period, schools easily release students. Usually, it is enough to call the homeroom teacher and warn that the child is sick or leaving, and then write a statement addressed to the director. In the text of the statement, the parent asks to allow the son or daughter to be absent from the classroom and takes responsibility for his health and the assimilation of educational material on the specified day. The school charter may also provide for the mandatory provision of a medical certificate after treatment in a hospital or stay abroad.
You can skip, but without prejudice to your studies
“At the beginning of the year, at the parent meeting, everyone receives a printed application form that the child will skip school for any reason. Parents just need to put down the dates, sign and bring the application to the school. There will be no sanctions for this, ”said Irina Voitova, head teacher of one of the St. Petersburg schools. This practice exists almost everywhere.
But in everything you need to know when to stop. If absenteeism is frequent, they will have to be worked out. And if you do not work out, then the prospect of remaining uncertified will loom before the students – then he will not go to the next class. So you can skip, but without sacrificing academic performance.