Not Logging Absences

A kid gets sick and is taken out of school.
He goes to the doctor, gets medicine, gets better.
Mom takes a doctor's note to the school to show that kid went to the doctor.
Absence is, therefore, excused.
But the doctor note isn't logged properly.
Who knows why.
It just wasn't.
So kid gets sick again.  Doesn't go to school.  Because that's what you do when you're sick.
The school automatically generates a letter because he's had too many unexcused absences.
Mom calls the school, and finds out the doctor's notes weren't properly logged.
She needs to take them back.
She sends all this information to her ex-husband, who is suing her for sole custody of their children.
She sends all this information to her attorney, who has an intense conversation with her about this.
She anticipates this being used against her and her children.
She anticipates the ex will make an issue of it.
She anticipates the ex's attorney will make an issue of it.
They have in the past.
Why would they change now?

It's not about the kid's education and if he's doing well.
It's not about the kid's health and if he's feeling better.
It's about the failings of the mother and why the kid shouldn't be with her.
And the fight intensifies.
For the wrong reasons.
About the wrong issues.
And the kid gets sidelined again.

This.  Is.  Too.  Much.
It is wrong.