1. (points #1 &2) “Please go back and read the original post, these girls have not been in school for weeks, not a few days”
sorry, my bad. But all it changes is that I would have written “a few weeks” instead of a few days (which I almost did. I actually wrote ” a few days” thinking that it might be a few weeks – a few weeks is also a few days). I think I agree with DY on this. Granted, I’m not sure what we mean by “a few weeks” but I was assuming something like 3 or 4 weeks and not 20 or 30.
2. (point #3): My main point is that there are few people in this situation.
3. “#4 is solved with a doctor’s note,”. No, only if the kids are really sick. After my parents got divorced and my mother had to go to work and I had to be in charge of getting the kids to school, they often pretended they were sick so they wouldn’t have to go to school, because they knew I couldn’t force them to go. I think my sister even admitted years later that she was just pretended.