a children cannot miss school without an acceptable excuse there are laws about this illness a death in the family or an emergency is an acceptable excuse for missing a class or class or a whole day schools are very serious about school attendence there are laws that make the parents accountable if their children miss school parents can go to jail or pay a fine in colorado a fifteen-year-old girl went to jail for month because she missed forty-three days of school and was late nineteen times her parents also went to jail for ten days and paid a fine of $300