Laws in Ohio appear to be about the same as TX. I am curious to know how KHK and Ohio schools dealt with this.
Current and former KHK prisoners, try requesting a copy of your school record. What is on your record regarding your absence from school during your time in KHK?
[The paragraphs below are excerpted from:
ยง 3321.04. Scope of parent's duty; excuses from attendance, from the Ohio Revised Code. For the Ohio Revised Code go to :
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/laws.cfm and click on Ohio Revised Code, then on TITLE XXXIII EDUCATION - LIBRARIES to get to the education code.]
"...Excuses from future attendance at or past absence from school or a special education program may be granted for the causes, by the authorities, and under the following conditions:
(A) The superintendent of the city or exempted village school district or the educational service center in which the child resides may excuse the child from attendance for any part of the remainder of the current school year upon satisfactory showing of either of the following facts:
(1) That the child's bodily or mental condition does not permit attendance at school or a special education program during such period; this fact is certified in writing by a licensed physician or, in the case of a mental condition, by a licensed physician, a licensed psychologist, licensed school psychologist or a certificated school psychologist; and provision is made for appropriate instruction of the child, in accordance with Chapter 3323. of the Revised Code;
(2) That the child is being instructed at home by a person qualified to teach the branches in which instruction is required, and such additional branches, as the advancement and needs of the child may, in the opinion of such superintendent, require. In each such case the issuing superintendent shall file in his office, with a copy of the excuse, papers showing how the inability of the child to attend school or a special education program or the qualifications of the person instructing the child at home were determined. All such excuses shall become void and subject to recall upon the removal of the disability of the child or the cessation of proper home instruction; and thereupon the child or the child's parents may be proceeded against after due notice whether such excuse be recalled or not.
(B) [irrelevant]
All excuses provided for in divisions (A) and (B) of this section shall be in writing and shall show the reason for excusing the child. A copy thereof shall be sent to the person in charge of the child.
(C) The board of education of the city or exempted village school district or the governing board of the educational service center in which a public school is located or the governing authorities of a private or parochial school may in the rules governing the discipline in such schools, prescribe the authority by which and the manner in which any child may be excused for absence from such school for good and sufficient reasons.
The state board of education may by rule prescribe conditions governing the issuance of excuses, which shall be binding upon the authorities empowered to issue them."
