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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps attendance is a factor. OSSE says 42% of KIPP students are chronically absent. For many people, the COVID closures really broke the habit of school attendance. And you can’t learn if you’re not in school. [/quote]

That's not unique to KIPP at all.[/quote]

But maybe they were better before? I thought KIPP’s claim to fame was that they were hard core about things like behavior, attendance, and uniforms and would kick kids out for noncompliance. [/quote]

I do think attendance could be part of it. I’m too far out now, but they were very on top of attendance when my child attended pre-COVID. We moved out of DC at the tail end of COVID for other reasons, but had a good experience at the Shaw campus from pk3-5th. 6th was a struggle (height of COVID), and then moved.

When my child started there it was also more of a year round model, and I think they’ve changed their calendar to be closer to the DCPS calendar. This gave the additional school days to get kids up to grade level. [/quote]

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