I did with my kids what my mom did with me. If I faked being sick, she faked thinking I was sick and made me spend the entire day in bed, trying to sleep, with nothing to eat but chicken soup and toast. I think I pulled that twice.Sure have. She doesn't like to be told what to do in an organized class, she'd rather they get out the equipment and she can choose what she does. That gets a big "too bad" from Mom.
Which is a given. But she really, really hates basketball and introductory gymnastics. I never liked basketball much either, and I understand she gets bored with scales and rolls when she's up to learning the bars in her regular gymnastics class, but it's a required class and she must do as she's told. End of story.
Unfortunately she still has 4 unnecessary absences on her transcript along with 2 necessary ones, so if she gets legitimately sick and has to miss several days for the flu or something I'm getting a knock on the door from the truancy officers.
They actually have truancy officers where you live? where were they when I was in school?