Attendance policy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think the crackdown is in response to families who travel abroad for long trips to visit family.

Curious how this will play out.

This isn’t new.

Sigh.

The travel and absences aren’t new, but mcps is taking a hardline on absences this year…which is new.

Literally every teacher at back to school night had talking points on it. Plus a video from the principal.

There’s a long thread in this forum foreshadowing this hardline. Remember the chronic absenteeism discussion?

Another new bit: if you have 10 unexcused absences, you will unenrolled.

Like a pp said: this hardline isn’t for the “good” people. But I think it’s bizarre to take a hardline with good students when the real issue is immigrant families or others who disappear for weeks/months on end to travel abroad and the very real issue of unaccompanied Latinos or other boys who aren’t interested in school.

I think/hope? It’s a tactic to unenroll troublemakers.

It’s just frustrating that if my kid tests positive for covid I’ll need to take them to the doctor and essentially pay for a note to excuse their absence.

Doctor's notes for extended absences has always been the case in my experience in MCPS. Why are people acting like this policy of expecting a doctor's note for extended absences is brand new and therefore unreasonable?

If MCPS announces it parents can't plead ignorance when the take Larla on vacation any more!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the crackdown is in response to families who travel abroad for long trips to visit family.

Curious how this will play out.

This isn’t new.

Sigh.

The travel and absences aren’t new, but mcps is taking a hardline on absences this year…which is new.

Literally every teacher at back to school night had talking points on it. Plus a video from the principal.

There’s a long thread in this forum foreshadowing this hardline. Remember the chronic absenteeism discussion?

Another new bit: if you have 10 unexcused absences, you will unenrolled.

Like a pp said: this hardline isn’t for the “good” people. But I think it’s bizarre to take a hardline with good students when the real issue is immigrant families or others who disappear for weeks/months on end to travel abroad and the very real issue of unaccompanied Latinos or other boys who aren’t interested in school.

I think/hope? It’s a tactic to unenroll troublemakers.

It’s just frustrating that if my kid tests positive for covid I’ll need to take them to the doctor and essentially pay for a note to excuse their absence.

Doctor's notes for extended absences has always been the case in my experience in MCPS. Why are people acting like this policy of expecting a doctor's note for extended absences is brand new and therefore unreasonable?

Agree this has always been the case. My child was injured in the first week of school and missed 6 days (so far). I had no problem providing a note from the doctor. My other child had an injury a few years back and I did the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the crackdown is in response to families who travel abroad for long trips to visit family.

Curious how this will play out.

This isn’t new.

Sigh.

The travel and absences aren’t new, but mcps is taking a hardline on absences this year…which is new.

Literally every teacher at back to school night had talking points on it. Plus a video from the principal.

There’s a long thread in this forum foreshadowing this hardline. Remember the chronic absenteeism discussion?

Another new bit: if you have 10 unexcused absences, you will unenrolled.

Like a pp said: this hardline isn’t for the “good” people. But I think it’s bizarre to take a hardline with good students when the real issue is immigrant families or others who disappear for weeks/months on end to travel abroad and the very real issue of unaccompanied Latinos or other boys who aren’t interested in school.

I think/hope? It’s a tactic to unenroll troublemakers.

It’s just frustrating that if my kid tests positive for covid I’ll need to take them to the doctor and essentially pay for a note to excuse their absence.

I for one am glad that MCPS doesn't have one policy for the "good kids" and another for the immigrants.

[Anonymous]

So what’s the consequences? They actually will arrest you if the kids is absent for more than 5 days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what’s the consequences? They actually will arrest you if the kids is absent for more than 5 days?

If absent for 10 consecutive days, your kid can be unenrolled from MCPS. Which means you'll have to go through all of the paperwork of reenrolling them again if that happens.

It also means if you don't reenroll them or enroll them either in homeschool or private school, you could get in trouble with the state and then yes, get arrested for child neglect.

[Anonymous]

It’s always been the policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what’s the consequences? They actually will arrest you if the kids is absent for more than 5 days?

Unexcused absence; may not be able to make up work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:You do understand that this isn't about your child that is truly sick. This is about the parents who allow their children to stay home for weeks without any sort of notification to the school. This is about the parents that take their children out of the country for weeks at a time to visit their native country. It is about the children who are actually truant. There are parents who never notify the school of why their child is not in school. They don't call, they don't sent in a note. They just ghost the school. You can understand how this can have a negative impact on the child who is not receiving an education. You can see how this is going to impact your child because when the student does return for a prolonged absence the teacher has to catch that student up.

If this was about a concern for children actually getting an education, they would have some meaningful oversight for homeschoolers, which they don't.

You think MCPS should expending more of its resources and energy on oversight of people who've chosen to pull their kids out of the school system and teach them on their own?

Why?

No I think they should be expending less of its resources and energy on oversight on the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

Unpopular opinion but I think it's incredibly valuable for immigrant children to get a chance to visit their home country and practice a different language than English. They will learn far more doing that than they will sitting in a classroom. It's an actively good thing when that happens imo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what’s the consequences? They actually will arrest you if the kids is absent for more than 5 days?

If absent for 10 consecutive days, your kid can be unenrolled from MCPS. Which means you'll have to go through all of the paperwork of reenrolling them again if that happens.

It also means if you don't reenroll them or enroll them either in homeschool or private school, you could get in trouble with the state and then yes, get arrested for child neglect.

Not always. We did this a few times for vacation in elementary and it was never an issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what’s the consequences? They actually will arrest you if the kids is absent for more than 5 days?

If absent for 10 consecutive days, your kid can be unenrolled from MCPS. Which means you'll have to go through all of the paperwork of reenrolling them again if that happens.

It also means if you don't reenroll them or enroll them either in homeschool or private school, you could get in trouble with the state and then yes, get arrested for child neglect.

It's 15 consecutive days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion but I think it's incredibly valuable for immigrant children to get a chance to visit their home country and practice a different language than English. They will learn far more doing that than they will sitting in a classroom. It's an actively good thing when that happens imo.

They have 2 and half months to do that during the summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what’s the consequences? They actually will arrest you if the kids is absent for more than 5 days?

If absent for 10 consecutive days, your kid can be unenrolled from MCPS. Which means you'll have to go through all of the paperwork of reenrolling them again if that happens.

It also means if you don't reenroll them or enroll them either in homeschool or private school, you could get in trouble with the state and then yes, get arrested for child neglect.

Not always. We did this a few times for vacation in elementary and it was never an issue.

It's a new day. MCPS is cracking down this year because of the chronic absenteeism problems. Keep up with the news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what’s the consequences? They actually will arrest you if the kids is absent for more than 5 days?

If absent for 10 consecutive days, your kid can be unenrolled from MCPS. Which means you'll have to go through all of the paperwork of reenrolling them again if that happens.

It also means if you don't reenroll them or enroll them either in homeschool or private school, you could get in trouble with the state and then yes, get arrested for child neglect.

You aren’t going to get arrested for child neglect. B

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what’s the consequences? They actually will arrest you if the kids is absent for more than 5 days?

If absent for 10 consecutive days, your kid can be unenrolled from MCPS. Which means you'll have to go through all of the paperwork of reenrolling them again if that happens.

It also means if you don't reenroll them or enroll them either in homeschool or private school, you could get in trouble with the state and then yes, get arrested for child neglect.

Not always. We did this a few times for vacation in elementary and it was never an issue.

It's a new day. MCPS is cracking down this year because of the chronic absenteeism problems. Keep up with the news.

No one really cares.