Make reporting lateness, absences, vacations, etc. more user-friendly

There is not an efficient user-friendly way to report that our child might be late, absent, or on vacation. Instead, we have to use either the Messages section (which has proven to be pretty useless, honestly). Or we have to try to put this into the "Drop Off Notes" section before checking our child in. This is also pretty counterintuitive and useless. Why can't there just be a section where you can literally click--day by day--on options like "Absent," "Late" "Early Pickup" etc. with the ability to also add our own notes/comments? Forcing parents to try to convey these things in the Messages section is silly and doesn't have the same smoothness that other apps like this do. I wish you'd actually consider the user/parent experience when designing these apps. We don't need more tabs and sections--we just need a single place to share information and communicate in REAL TIME with teachers and staff. This app is so disjointed.