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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to clarify with the issue of parents saying they don't correct their kids being mistakenly being marked absent, the issue isn't that parents aren't making an effort to correct the records.

The issue is when showing that their school's attendance rates might not be where they would like it, they come with the excuse, "oh well, they make mistakes in taking attendance"

Same thing when showing low proficiency rates, "oh my kid had a bad day and is why they got a low test score..."[/quote]

I know my kid was at school yesterday taking a test all day.  Got an email saying they were absent.  Not fixing it.  [/quote]

Okay, so you're saying that the attendance numbers for MCPS isn't as bad due to inaccurate attendance taking.

So that means maybe chronic absenteeism isn't as big of an issue at MCPS as people make it out to be?

Then what is the reason for MCPS's declining proficiency rates, where it trails other local school systems?  Then what is the solution to help fix it?[/quote]

I agree it’s not as big an issue as the data makes it seem.  They should also knock out all the half days when lookkkg at the data.  I don’t think other local school systems use as many silly half days.  At least some of the data also doesn’t account for sick days — I do think sick days are increased post covid for a variety of reasons (parents being more sensitive to keeping kids home when sick, kids immune systems being generally messed up after the pandemic, some increases in chronic autoimmune type conditions that  maybe were covid triggered, etc.)

I think the declining proficiency rates are because the teachers are frustrated, exhausted and overwhelmed.  My kids have been in the system for 15 years and I’ve seen so many of the best teachers just give up and leave.  That combined with the fact that MoCo is increasingly a high needs county.  Things like poverty and ESL status are highly correlated with performance on standardized tests.  [/quote]

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