Tardies and absences

How did your school, high school or other, treat attendance? I've only gone to schools where people couldn't care less. In high school I used to have a friend with 250 absences and I was sitting at 50 or 60 myself. All we ever got was a little slap on the wrist. But as long as our parents excused the absence, they couldn't do anything. Parents didn't even need to call in, it was all done online. For the record, my mom excused everything because I had good grades anyway and my friend's parents didn't know she was cutting class because she found out their password and logged into their account to excuse her own absences lol