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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not an FCPS calendar issue. It’s a problem all over. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA956-34.html[/quote]

Several hypotheses but I favor this one:

[i]One hypothesis is that families and students became accustomed to districts’ relaxed expectations and revised instructional practices that were implemented during the pandemic; for example, schools might still be providing more-generous makeup windows or allowing students to make up more missed schoolwork online, relative to their prepandemic practices. Specifically, the availability of online materials to replace in-person instruction may have shifted at least some parents’ perceptions about the importance of their children being physically present in school (Diliberti et al., 2024; Saavedra, Polikoff, and Silver, 2024). [/i]

School systems said, "F school, face to face interaction isn't that big of a deal."  Years later, parents and the children who were in school during that time agree.

The question is, does the increased absenteeism occur to the same degree in the areas that had drastically shorter "lockdown" periods and opened school as normal or near normal in Fall 2020?[/quote]

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