Your missing out on participation that you cannot make up because you were not physically in class

Dumb, I know, but some teachers like to do that 🙁

Some college teachers will grade partially (or sometimes mostly) on attendance and participation. Most of the teachers at my college will allow you to bring in a doctor’s note saying that you were indeed sick and will not dock you points. However there are always the few that will be sticklers on attendance and this will not be enough and you are probably just out those points.

If you are in high school or below, I would talk to an administrator about what is allowed for attendance points. At my high school, we had to be called in sick by our parents and it was called an excused absence. Teachers would allow you time (usually 2 days for every day gone) to make up any work. If we were not called in or “excused” then it was called an “unexcused absence” which meant that we could not make up any points and also received discipline points.