I am told there is a city wide attend policy in place what is it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unexcused absences will not apply in DL. There are too many reasons you can list that the school can't prove:

-child is sick (and you don't go to get a doctor's note because you want to limit COVID exposure)
-kid spilled water on computer and it doesn't work
- computer charger broke, was chewed on by dog, etc. so the computer can't be charged
-younger sibling dropped and broke the computer
- power went out
- internet went out
- kid's device got a computer virus

Some of these are silly but all could happen, can't be proved and are excuses for not doing DL. So OSSE really can't hold people to strict attendance guidelines.

And last I knew dcps & charters can't kick kids at any grade leve out for attendance issues any more.

[Anonymous]

What about zearn and Lexia blended learning? It’s not marked as asynchronous but it seems like sometimes it’s on your own. Will that be face to face live teaching sometimes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS can kiss my ass with their “mandatory attendance policy.”

Mostly this is just so the schools know when they have to make mandatory reports to CFSA and what they need to do to get per-pupil funding. If you don't do it, you might get a phone call or visit to make sure you haven't murdered your kids (I think we can all agree this is something worth checking on--there are kids at legit risk of this) and your school might get less money. As long as you're ok with both of those things feel free to have your kid do nothing all year. As long as it's your IB school they have to take your back whenever you want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS can kiss my ass with their “mandatory attendance policy.”

Mostly this is just so the schools know when they have to make mandatory reports to CFSA and what they need to do to get per-pupil funding. If you don't do it, you might get a phone call or visit to make sure you haven't murdered your kids (I think we can all agree this is something worth checking on--there are kids at legit risk of this) and your school might get less money. As long as you're ok with both of those things feel free to have your kid do nothing all year. As long as it's your IB school they have to take your back whenever you want.

Or save CFSA the resources to focus on kids who are truly in danger and just log into Canvas once a day between 6 am and 11:59 pm. It's that simple.