Newsflash - not all of us have jobs that allow us to take off at any time, even when medical appointments are scheduled months or weeks in advance. Things come up that necessitate rescheduling time out of the office. I guess perfect people like you don't have that, but some of us have less flexible work arrangements. |
I'm a DP, but am curious. If it's not important for teachers to have regular attendance, why should it be important for kids? Of course, the answer is that it's important for both, but people like you won't admit that. |
Are you serious? You can't see the difference between kids who need to learn how to read, write, and do basic math and adults who already demonstrate mastery? I have students in 3rd grade who are barely on a kindergarten level in terms of reading and it's entirely due to poor attendance. They will never recover from this academically. |
Next time you take off work to schedule something to take care of yourself, ask yourself isn’t it important that you’re at work? Shouldn’t you probably cancel? No adult does that. Teachers are adults. Time people like you realized that. |
Unless the teachers shut down their assignments in MyMCPS, it is easy for students to speed run the assignments. I have multiple students who only came to class
few times each quarter. Keeping tracking of late submissions can be very cumbersome due to all the different reasons kids might be turning things in late, so it is often easier not to take point off at all for lateness. My personal strategy is to not take off late points, but to not to accept assignments due before interims. I also dont take late assignments the last week of the semester. Students still try to run me down to turn in or retake assignments due over a month ago. I am tempted to hide in my room during lunch with the lights off... |
You know, if you were halfway competent at being a teacher, your admin would have had your back. They're struggling to find halfway competent teachers. Sucks to be you. |
Teachers do get leave time. They also get sucked into IEP meetings and other stuff keeping them out of classrooms. |
Chronic student absenteeism and the lack of a MCPS response is the purpose of this thread. If you want to start a different thread regarding teacher absenteeism then please have at it. However, just like any employer, MCPS has to honor legitimate reasons for teachers are absent. As a PP pointed out, just because a teacher is not in the classroom doesn’t mean they are not performing another job duty for MCPS.
Likewise, students are allowed excused absences. Doctor appointment or dental appointments would classify as an excused absence and would require a parental or provider note. For students who are considered chronically absent, is there data on the percentage of excused absences vs. not excused? How many students are considered to be habitually truant? Any word on when MCPS hopes to have a plan for addressing this problem? |
More excuses. Yawn. You’re a parent, just like all the rest of us. Suck it up and plan accordingly. |
You both sound like lazy, incompetent parents. Shrug. |
This has been covered. Go back and reread the thread, for comprehension this time. |
You set such a high standard, spending your free time insulting strangers online with irrational arguments. Why even try to compete with that? |
I did not read all the posts but if your kid is a Senior with most mandatory credits and is checked out; they can take an abbreviated schedule. My DD only had classes before noon then went to a job every afternoon.
She also took a once a week, self-paced online Pathways to graduation. This was a great option instead of skipping classes. |
Important advice here. ^^^ |
My daughter just graduated from MCPS, and hardly went to school. her pediatrician even understood why she did not want to be in that environment, with drugs, verbal assaults , requests to sext etc ......she basicaly taught herself. She refused to return to private school.
MCPS did nothing ! Other than the daily call from a robot telling me my kid was absent, yes, I already knew ......no attendance plan, no calls from the grade chair, absolutely nothing. And passed. The decline in MCPS is staggering. |