Why would somebody stress about reporting their kid's absence from school? Or is that one of those Orwellian American things where you get arrested if you don't?
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2025
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Yes. An acquaintance had to answer to Child Protective Services because they had a family trip to their home country and their kids missed 4 days of school without warning.
Ok, a whole family with school aged children disappearing for 4 days without warning anyone is legitimately concerning for the school
It is. But only in the US this story ends with cops.
Nobody said anything about cops.
I don't know how it works in other places, but CPS was escorted by cops. Also, still missing the point.
Didn't you smell the bacon like odor of a Truant-Officer stalking behind the post trying to track down those kids?
This happened all the time in my home country and no one batted an eye. The homeroom teacher just wrote up the tally towards the maximum allowable absence days, and informed the student and their parents via the booklet about the remaining days, which when exceeded, would automatically result in repeat of the school grade or expulsion (past the age of 16).
Maybe I'm in the wrong here, but... why not call and let the school know?
You're missing the point. Why didn't the school call before calling CPS and the cops on them?
In America, not every school is staffed to the point where they can have someone sit on phones all day. Most schools around me are working on shoestring budgets, and I'm in a fairly cosmopolitan area of California. It's even worse if you're in a rural area because there's no incentive to get good teachers there through pay rates or bonuses or anything like that. God help your kids if you're in a red state. They are giving emergency teaching credentials to anyone with a pulse.
It’s called anxiety. A lot of people have it; even us Orwellian Americans. 🙄
for some stupid reason funding gets cut if kids have unexcused absences. if you have too many, there's a truancy board and shit.
I... I don't have a way to do it... I can never be like him. Because...
There's no Japanese bakery in this town. 😭
My pro tip for the dad and people wanting to be like the dad is to lead with the important information and then show the meme. Or even better, keep your partner in the loop regarding the stuff you're doing as you're doing it, at least when you're doing this kind of stuff that is on multiple peoples' radars. That way they don't even start freaking out.
My interpretation of the comic is that he had not done these things until after she had yelled at him, making him realize that the situation was really bad and he needed to take it over from her. Arguably he should have come to this realization sooner, but we all occasionally fail to see what is in front of us time to time, so I am willing to cut him slack given that he immediately jumped in without being asked once it became clear he was needed.
Oh, yeah, I could see that being the way it was intended. It's tough to convey the passage of time in pictures.
In the first panel of the second row the kid is still heads down, enough time didn’t pass to do all those things
Partner goals
What kind of food would that be? Genuinely asking, I've never tasted japanese baked/breakfast foods or seen any place that serves them.
The H-Mart near me has a Japanese bakery next to it. It's a lot of sweet/fluffy breads and pastries mixed with various sweet/savory fillings. For example, they have one that's kind of like a nice flaky croissant wrapped around a sausage that has lots of herb flavor. Or breads filled with custard, red bean paste, taro paste, and similar.
It's generally pretty rich for my tastebuds, but a lot of it is very tasty!
Oh so many things, from savory hotdogs in a fresh bun, curry bread, melon bread, cream filled puff balls, honey crisp Texas toast, you name it. It's a little pricey in the US but when I stayed in Japan, there was a tiny hole in the wall right next door that sold them for 150 yen a piece. It sustained us the whole month, every morning.
Yeah, when the school hoops they want you to jump through for whatever are too stupid, just ... don't. They will grouse at you about that. So what?
We have an app we use to notify and I am pretty sure it is only looked at by transportation so the bus driver knows.
If there's an actual issue the school will call and we sort it out then.
It looks like she has poo on her face in the bottom left panel. Is it supposed to be a shadow?
As parent, I suspect actually meant to be poo.
Her head is to the left; that's her bum with poo. Her legs are folded up in a diaper change position.
The mother, not the child.
Ah, yep, I see it now. Could well be poo, but it's a different shade, and would seem to suggest it's also on her kid's feet - I'd guess it's from the mess in the two panels prior.
This was basically my morning but with a mexican bakery for doughnuts.
Butter and sugar clearly the best choice cure for the common cold in toddlers.
I can think of some people who deserve a partner like him