Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students who miss eight or more days under the new policy can be referred to juvenile court, regardless of whether they were out ...

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, ...

Young children get sick far more often than adults, and it is completely normal. Most healthy kids come down with about six viral illnesses a year—and preschoolers and early elementary-aged children ...