text: It's not wholly uncommon to miss a couple of days of school. Whether it's for some sort of family emergency or simple sickness, missing one or two days of school isn't out of the ordinary by any stretch of imagination. What is out of the ordinary is missing weeks or even months of school at once. Whatever the reason, this will leave most students heavily behind in terms of curriculum. Arrangements can be made to either exempt them from this missed information or to assist them in learning it more quickly, but neither of these methods seem completely effective. If students were able to take their schoolwork with them over extended absences, even if only to avoid falling behind, it would remove the need for such measures entirely.