Governmental school administrations stressed the need to update the personal parents’ phone numbers, with the aim of ensuring that the notifications of school absence arrive in an immediate and reliable manner, in a way that contributes to enhancing communication between the school and the family, and following up the regularity of students in the daily attendance, and stressed through the circulars that the accuracy of the communication data is a prerequisite for documenting the justified and unjustified absence, according to what was stated in the procedural guide to attendance and the approved absence. School departments emphasized that the continuous update of the phone numbers contributes to the speedy notification of the guardian of any unjustified absence that may precede or track the official leave, pointing out that the evidence determined such cases as a double absence that is calculated by two days,
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