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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps DCPS should establish a magnet school for all students with attendance problems.  That way, they could deal with them all in one place, rather than in every school[/quote]

It certainly would be a huge school -- since "[b]75 percent of the 2,307 graduates systemwide[/b] missed more than 10 percent of the school days"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-schools-increasingly-graduating-chronically-absent-students-report-finds/2018/01/16/a1722404-bf01-44bc-a8c7-e9d9e3b3e9df_story.html?utm_term=.b60ce4514275[/quote]

I heard the FBI building will be vacant soon.

Or, why not focus graduation on GPA and not on attendance?  A little more flexibility with respect to absences would seem to be in order here.[/quote]

Because GPA and attendance are linked.

If you miss the majority of class sessions, DCPS policy is that you cannot pass the class. But students who were absent more than half the time were routinely allowed to pass, often by being allowed to take 'credit recovery' classes. Credit recovery classes require significantly less work than if they showed up to class.

What the students did actually makes sense -- why slog through a class every day when you can skip school, do a modest amount of work online, and graduate on time anyway?
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