SeRioUsLY!!!

OK.....so it is beginning to feel like things just don't flow smoothly for us when times get a tad stressful.
I got a letter in the mail from Trenton's school a couple of days ago saying that he was "habitually truant" and that the school district would be contacting us. WHAT?!!!!! So I call the next day, and I am really bad with confrontation and keep telling myself that I need to stay calm and not say something stupid or cry if they give me any problems. At first they said that the counselor I need to speak to isn't there and then as they are getting my information and problem someone walks in that they say I can speak to. Well she was not really friendly sounding to start with, which raised my blood pressure a notch or two. I tell her what is going on and that I can account for the missing days and that I had sent in notes for those missing days, which might I add right now is ONLY 6 days!!! And that is over the entire year!! So she says that she doesn't have documentation and that those reasons are not excusable. I ask what constitutes an excused absence and she says ONLY if my child is ill or for a death in the family. Ok, I can understand that, BUT.... so I tell her our family situation, Travis is a very busy dental student and that Christmas break (4days missed) was later than his and that he had a job interview in Denver and that we hadn't seen family in almost 2 years and she says, "Not an excusable absence." So I point out that he is doing well in school, and is actually ahead of many of his classmates and that he is well behaved and ask why they don't take those things and our family situation into consideration. "That's just the law. Infact that is nation wide." Whatever. So she says that the half day that he missed is excused, well thank goodness for that one. That is the day he puked in the hall. She then says,"Well where was he on the 1st and 2nd of April?" To which I explain that Travis' break was the week before and we didn't feel like it was a problem if Trenton missed two days and Travis missed two days the following week so that we could get away and spend time as a family,and that Trenton had personally delivered a note explaining all of that. Still not excusable. So she then tells me that this is all for the well being of him and his education, and that I need to take this seriously. EXCUSE ME??? So I resolve to 12 yr. old behavior and tell her that the system is stupid and that their rules make NO SENSE and we were moving in 2 weeks and I just didn't care. So she then tells me that if we don't enroll him as soon as we get to Denver then those 5 days will go on his record, putting him way over the limit and CPS would be alerted and if they couldn't find us then the State of Kentucky would look for us until they "hunted" us down. (so not exaggerating here) I was pretty much in tears when I got off the phone. Travis said that I should call the school district that we are moving to and see what they say. They were WAY NICER and said that I should just pull him out here, but Kindergarten is required in Kentucky and I can't do that but it is not required there and it is only half day. So they suggested that I get his teacher to assess him and have the school release him when we move. I told Kim Courtright, our good friend/neighbor who used to work for this school district, and she told me that I should call the district here and tell them what is going on. So I did, and was transferred to several different people sharing my story until some one was like NO WAY and patched me through to the "LIAISON of Elementary Schools" and talked to her assistant who told me that she would file a complaint and the lady would call me later. She also suggest that I call the Principle. So I did and she apologized and said that she would find out who I spoke to and talk to her because she shouldn't have been rude, but that there was nothing she could do about the absences. I talked to the LIAISON today and she formally apologized and said that she understood our situation and it was obvious that we took Trenton's education seriously. She said that she too could do nothing about the absences, but that all would be ok. I guess we will just call the district in Colorado and see what they suggest, because KENTUCKY LAW will not allow the school to just release him.
So to all you here that are about to have your children enter school, BEWARE!! Don't you dare take your kid out unless he/she is on their death bed.
Maybe if I didn't feel like I had to be so honest and would have just called him in sick we wouldn't be dealing with this.
3 more weeks....that's what I keep telling myself.