By law students must attend school daily. Washington County Schools will allow parent/guardian excuses to serve as documentation for five (5) personal illness days only. After five (5) parent/guardian excused personal illness days, parents must provide medical documentation for additional personal illnesses or family illness. To avoid student absences being recorded as unexcused, a written statement signed and dated by the parent/guardian and any medical documentation should be presented to the appropriate school official within five (5) days of the student returning to school.