I hate 'perfect attendence" policies that do not include excused days. We had one at my job for a while, but it included excused absences (we had sick days and as long as you used those hours, it didn't count against you). With school, its kind of stupid because sometimes a kid is sick but not sick enough to go to the doctor, or impossible to get a same day Dr Appt. All those policies do is convince people to come to work sick. Another bad excample is, we had a ploicy that if you missed a day before or after a holiday you lose your holiday pay. One woman was out of sick time and actually came to work still recovering from Pneumonia..