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It is relevant. So no one is saying that the school should not care about "why".

It can affect how effective a policy could be, but it is not the only factor that needs to be considered.

We are now talking about whether punishment would be useful, not trying to provide a full scope policy that works perfectly for MCPS.
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Whether punishment would be useful depends on why students are skipping. And on what the punishment is.[/quote]

Students are skipping for different reasons. Punishments are useful for some reasons. That is good enough. I am not talking about a "work-for-all" method.
If you want to pursue other ways to help students getting back to school, as long as it does not require significantly more resources, I think you can propose that to schools too. It is in no way contradicting to having a punishment system.

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Punishments might work if students have reasons for non-attendance that don’t put outweigh the punishment. [/quote]

True. And we have to realize: the punishments are there, not ONLY to BRING BACK students who skip school, but also to stop other students from doing the same thing for trivia reasons.
Punishments may not really work for those who frequently skip school since they don't care, but they would certainly work as a hold-back for other students.
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