Some Mobile County parents say inaccurate attendance information placed their children on a list of some 15,000 students that the Mobile County Public School System considers truant.
this week ordering parents to attend mandatory intervention sessions next week with educators and representatives of the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office. According to the school system, these are students who had too many unexcused absences or tardies.
That is just what many parents have done, but some told FOX10 News they have not been able to get the mistakes corrected.“I was like, ‘He’s going to night school,’” she said. “And then the counselor called me, as well. And I told the counselor, ‘He’s been going to night school.’ And I guess there’s no communication there.”
After Pedraza spoke with FOX10 News, she said she finally got assurances that the school was sending corrected information to the DA’s Office. “The reason I’m upset – I got this from the state of Alabama,” she said. “They are suspending my daughter’s driver’s license effective July the 27th due to the attendance at the school.”
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