Alright. If someone's got a fever of over 100, feels like she swallowed an acid-soaked cotton ball that got stuck in her gullet halfway down, has vertigo like a very vertigo-y thing, and has puked up her last three meals, should she be forcibly sent to school, yelled at the whole way in about how she's just trying to skive off education by feigning illness, and then told that 'you're sticking it out the entire day because i'm working and so's your mother so we can't pick you up, so don't bother calling us "convinced" that you're ill?

The obvious answer is no, that's the whole reason they LET people stay home when they're sick, and you'd be correct.

Somebody should tell Richard and Patricia Judd this little factoid.