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What do teachers write in an attendance sheet ...?
Please, bear in mind it's a monolingual question, and it would be great to know answers from the aforementioned countries, and even other native English countries.
Thank you very much in adavance :).
5 +1 | All students present/ no students absent etc. | Yvonne Gallagher |
5 | No answer | Zheng Ma |
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All students present/ no students absent etc.
Present/ absent used in all versions of English I know. And I was a teacher for years.
The attendance sheets usually just have narrow columns for each day with enough space for a tick ( present) or x or abs for absent.
And a note can be made at the bottom if needed
All students are/ were present etc.
Students absent: ....
Also note that younger children often called "pupils'" rather than "students"
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Note added at 52 days (2022-12-05 14:31:59 GMT) Post-grading
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No problem. Glad to have helped
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Daniela Miranda
14 days
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Many thanks. Yes, I used to be a teacher so sure about this one
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Discussion
Now to answer your question anyway I don't think there's a standard answer either way.
The most common way to indicate attendance, which covers all situations, is with a scale going from 0 to N (total number of students enrolled). So if x students attended, the teacher would write ATTENDANCE: x (and of course it can be x=0 in case no-one showed up)
How about "all students were absent"?