Do schools provide suport or at least give students breaks when students have to deal with family issue?

This question got me thinking. Most jellies answering the question agreed that the OP needs a break to deal with the family issue, and that the school has to do something about it, or at least gives the OP time off from school.

Something like that is unheard of where I live. Students are only allowed day off when they themselves are sick, and that pretty much the only reason they can be absent. Some teachers even go so far and ask students to provide doctor’s evidence. Other than that, you miss the class and you are done. And pretty much every school here work this way I even saw a teacher tease a student that she was the bride because she asked for permission to attend a wedding.

With that in mind, I was surprised that people here claimed that schools had to help students in situation like that. Is that a must, or does it depend on the school?