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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The kids are absent in the lower grades because their parents don’t make them go to school. They oversleep or it’s raining or it’s cold. These are reasons I’ve heard from PARENTS when we are able to get in touch with them. The social worker bends over backwards to call the parents to make sure they don’t oversleep (I’m not kidding). She gets coats and umbrellas for the kids even though most of them already have them.

The kids in the middle school are often absent because they are babysitting their younger siblings. Ridiculous. Mom can’t get the 5 yr old out of bed because he stayed up half the night on his tablet so she makes the middle school sibling stay home to babysit. [/quote]

Yup. There are the reasons we here at our school. I think I mentioned earlier in this thread (or another one) that once it starts getting cold our absences increase because parents refuse to send their kid. [/quote]

Why is that problem so much worse post-pandemic? [/quote]

Why? Virtual learning gave students an excuse for not attending school. We had to pass everyone. I had to pass students I never saw online. I wouldn't know them if I saw them standing right in front of me. We were told to pass them. So now they know they don't need to come to school and chances are, they will still pass. [/quote]

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