Per Alpine School District policy, I have ten days to email the school to excuse any absences or the student will receive no credit for that class. An "NC" shows up on their report card immediately. I kind of hate it. Once the ten days have passed the NC will need to be made up by either going into the school early, staying late, or showing up on a Saturday. There is a fee for both the after school and Saturday sessions, but the early morning is free. There was this one time when Taylor missed a class due to an orthodontist appointment and the ten days allotted for excusing it closed its doors. I rarely went with him to his appointments this past year because he is a big boy and drives a car and so I didn't need to go. His appointment was on the calendar and he reminded me, probably a couple of times to make the excuse, but I never sent the email. He came to me feeling a bit testy, understandably, because now he would have to make an appearance at "attendance sch