this website is clearly called FML where you share stories dumb ass

They probably informed the people in charge of the school, not each individual teacher. That's how it normally works for anything below college. If OP is in college though, they probably should have informed the teachers. I don't think that he is though.

This. Generally, unless you're in college, absences are called into the main office, and unfortunately they often don't bother to share this with teachers. In my senior year of high school my grandfather died suddenly and my whole family had to drive the 15 hours unexpectedly. My dad ended up having to stay to deal with legal stuff and I missed a week of school. My mother had called in every single day to update the school, but unfortunately they shared none of this with the teachers, so when I came back my sister and I were in exactly this position. Assuming that we'd simply been home with a cold screwing around for a week, they gave us almost no time to make-up work, dumped tests on us immediately, and were very rude about it. They shut up once they'd finally got around to asking the reasons, though, but by then my sister had already failed a test and the teacher wouldn't do anything. OP, I am so sorry for your loss. I know how much worse all of this made my grandfather's death--I can't even imagine how much worse it is to have lost your father. Try talking to the teacher (*privately*, because if you embarrass her you'll regret it), but if that won't work, saying something to the administration can't hurt.

Maybe the dumbass teacher didn't get the memo. Or just didn't care enough to remember. I agree there had to be some sort of communication, when my grandmother died in HS ******* everybody knew about it. Then again it was a private school where they at least pretend to care.

they were going through a tough time. who the **** would wanna call and say "well we missed school cause of a death in the fam." um im pretty sure dumbass was the least bit on their minds. look at it from their view