> Is it possible that expectations around attendance have never been reasonable or even safe? When I read this, I thought you were making a more general point,

> Is it possible that expectations around attendance have never been reasonable or even safe? When I read this, I thought you were making a more general point, rather than about missing school on account of sickness. To the general point, I think schooling is entirely unreasonable, and a terrible way to bring up humans. Though, I obviously think it is valuable to learn to read and write, know maths and certain tools to get by in life. But the rest of it is terrible - institutionalising children, filling children up with government ideas as if no other interpretations are available, the insistence of deference to authority, leaving no space for individuality, the application of some sort of 'people metric' where you are a problem if you don't want to sit for hours or find the propaganda dull. And this is to say nothing of the impossible expectations teachers have on them, which make the lessons even more depersonalising and uninspiring. In the face of this, we will see perpetual ai teachers and the lifetime monitoring as a good thing. No wonder there are so many lost people - people who have been brought up by loveless institutions can't even conceive of what they have not experienced - the materialistic collectivised mindset seems 'normal', rather than being seen as an ultra-radicalised ideology itself. Most people have completely lost sight of what it means to bring up children. It's simply not about farming out the job to institutional structures.