Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lawrence County School System officials announced the new attendance policy during a June 26 board meeting, where Director of ...

(NewsNation) — One Tennessee school district will no longer accept doctors’ notes to excuse an absence despite objections from parents. Lawrence County School System officials said the school is ...

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Is your kid sick? One Tennessee school district says, Suck it up. The Lawrence County School System is under fire for a strict new attendance policy that refuses to excuse students for being sick, ...

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Tenn. (WJW) — A new school absence policy in one southern Tennessee county states that a doctor’s note is no longer efficient enough to excuse a student from missing school. “Absences ...