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request for a review of the school policy for unexcused absences. He said the present policy was too lenient and not lenient enough. As it now stands, a student with an unexcused absence on a test day automatically gets a zero which would drastically affect his whole six weeks grade. Another student might have three unexcused absences, not any on a test day, and this would have no great effect on the six week grade.
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