There are students in the Reading School District who accrue 10 absence excuses from a parent and 40 from doctors in one school year.
So health care officials were urged Friday to be on the lookout for such students and not to feel pressured to issue them absence excuses.
Students are allowed to return to school without such notices, but the absences will be recorded as unexcused, said Anne Fisher, supervisor of the school district’s nurses.
“They don’t need a note to come back,” she said.