The problem here is the way the school is funded. The reason that the school put forward is that the school's funding is based on the number of kids marked as

The problem here is the way the school is funded. The reason that the school put forward is that the school's funding is based on the number of kids marked as in attendance in first period so they are using this system to increase those numbers by locating students already on campus but not in class. So root cause here is the funding model. That's what needs to be changed. Funding should not be based on a variable number of students that happen to be at school on a given day. There are a number of fixed costs in running a school that the current funding model doesn't take into account. So if you're pissed at this you should be more pissed at WHY they implemented it in the first place.