[thunderbear]

I had to go to court today. The county attorney said that my son missed 9 unexcused absenses. Well my husband and I went. Apperantly the absenses were from back in Oct. 09. I told my husband those absenses were excused because I remember when my son missed and why. He missed 3 days at the beginning of the month because of strep throat. I turned in the doctor's excuse the 2nd day he was out to cover him for that day, the day before and a 3rd day. Then around the 18th me and him passed the stomach flu around. He was out 6 days and I gave them 3 excuses for it each covering a couple of days. Handed them to the secratary myself. I don't know what she did with them, if she lost them or what, but now I am facing a year in jail and I have to pay a $366.00 fine. This is making me physicaly ill. I can't deal with it. On top of it my husband is sick with his Crohn's. The county attorney treated us like crap. Talked down to us. And nothing but roll his eyes and cut into us while we were trying to talk. This was our first court apperance over this kind of thing but he had us down as being there 3 times. And when I tried to correct him he cut me off and said "I can give you that year right now if I wanted to" I'm sick of this town I can't stand it. I stay depressed all the time here. I have no friends here. Or anything. Now all this. My anxiety is through the roof. I can't hardly function because I have a mix of depression, anxiety and really bad anger at this school for doing this. ANd the city for funking up the record and saying this is my 3rd offense when it's not. That's why they want to give me and my husband a year in jail because in the attorney's words "Let someone else look after our child because we can't" I hate this place. And now our names are going to appear in the paper with "Unlawful transaction w/a minor" under it. Normally I wouldn't care what people think of me but I don't want no one thinking we did something to harm a kid. I'm going to go to that school tomarrow to talk to the secratary. I want to know what happened to those 4 excuses for those days. The hell with this place. It's killing me to be here. I gotta move away from here.

thunderbear, call here to see if you are eligible for an attorney: http://www.kybar.org/418

Notice there are three different places to call. Always ask if they know of someone else to call if they cannot help.

Go to your doctor's office and find out if there is a note about the doctor's excuse for strep throat in the medical records. Did your son see the doctor for the stomach flu? If so check the medical records for notes on the visit. Get copies of the records for court. If you can, ask the doctor if he recalls the excuse and stomach flu.

Did he get any prescriptions for the strep or flu. Maybe the druggist has a record you can copy.

You should see if you can get a lawyer first. The lawyer may have something different to look for.

Was there a judge there when you were taking with the county attorney? Or were you there to pick up the papers accusing you of a crime? A judge should not allow the county attorney to interrupt you.

Let us know what is going on.

Sorry about this, thunder.

[thunderbear]

thunderbear, call here to see if you are eligible for an attorney: http://www.kybar.org/418
Thanks Byz.
Notice there are three different places to call. Always ask if they know of someone else to call if they cannot help.

Go to your doctor's office and find out if there is a note about the doctor's excuse for strep throat in the medical records. Did your son see the doctor for the stomach flu? If so check the medical records for notes on the visit. Get copies of the records for court. If you can, ask the doctor if he recalls the excuse and stomach flu.

Did he get any prescriptions for the strep or flu. Maybe the druggist has a record you can copy.
He did'nt go to the doc over the flu I just kept him at home and treated t there. But he went to the docs and he got scripts for his throat. And the excuse. Our doc keeps copies of everything from scripts to notes for work/school in the patients files. So it won't be too had to get that.

You should see if you can get a lawyer first. The lawyer may have something different to look for.

Was there a judge there when you were taking with the county attorney? Or were you there to pick up the papers accusing you of a crime? A judge should not allow the county attorney to interrupt you.
Yes. The judge was right there but he had about 20 other defendants in there so he was dealing with some of them. The attorney, my husband and I were talking at a table right next to the judge's stand.
Let us know what is going on.

Sorry about this, thunder.
Another thign that was going on at that time was back in Oct, our principle was retiring and there were 2 interim principles taking her place until they hired a permanent replacement. And I know that school excuses go to the principle and she sends them to the truant officer. Mabye the exccuses got mixed up among all the stuff that was going on at that time. I don't know I'm oing to figure it all out tomarrow. Hopefully anyway. Thakns Byz

Anytime thunder. This stinks!!