Pretty much what I was going to say. Including the bit about false negatives.
Homeschooling pretty much negates the other big disadvantage of this tactic: the return of the false positive when the kid discovers "illness" as a way of skipping school and getting away with it.
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Date: 2005-12-12 06:31 pm (UTC)Homeschooling pretty much negates the other big disadvantage of this tactic: the return of the false positive when the kid discovers "illness" as a way of skipping school and getting away with it.