School absence call — day off: Taking a Family Day Off

🇯🇵 [もしもし] is for phone calls, not face-to-face greetings. On a school absence call, it's the normal way to open before checking you reached the school.

💬 [ですか] turns a statement into a polite question: [学校です] = "It's the school," [学校ですか] = "Is it the school?" The [か] at the end does the question-mark job.

💬 Japanese often asks [Xですか] for "Is this X?" without a separate word for "this." You can reuse it with places and people too, like [保健室ですか。]

💬 [はい] is often used more like "yes" or "right" to show you're following, not only to answer a yes/no question. On the phone it can also simply mean "speaking" or "this is...

💬 [です] is the polite way to say "is/am/are." In self-introductions or phone calls, Japanese often leaves out "I" or "this," so [田中です] can mean "I'm Tanaka" or "This is Tanaka," depending on the situation.

🇯🇵 This is a fixed polite phrase used with schools, workplaces, and other ongoing relationships. It does not literally mean someone is currently "taking care of you" so much as "thank you for your continued help/support."