We would like to include attendance on our report cards but unfortunately we can only include whole categories "Absent", "Absent - Unexcused" or "Tardy".  

The following are a few reasons that a student may not be physically present, but is not considered to be absent from an academic standpoint.

• Dismissed early for an away sporting event
• School sponsored academic field trip
• School sponsored community service trip
• In-house suspension
• Peer mentoring

In each of these cases a note excusing the absence is not required (parent would have filled out a permission form).  For various reasons the whereabouts of the student need to be tracked and recorded (accountability drill for example).  The ability to filter by excuse type would be one possible way to fix this.  The ability to add multiple attendance sections to the report card building combined with filtering by excuse type will give schools the option of showing absences and dismissals separately (which we would also like to do).  Applying this kind of flexibility to regular attendance reports would be a bonus.