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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bowser/Ferabee said during a press conference that attendance is mandatory according to the same rules as normal. So I guess if you don’t log-in, it becomes an unexcused absence. [/quote]

Mandatory attendance for DL sounds good, but will prove completely unworkable.  Some poor kids don't have regular access to devices, and even some high SES kids are going to have technical issues that prevent them from logging in from time to time (e.g. Internet cuts out during a storm).  DCPS doesn't have anywhere near the truant officers and social workers to chase down those supposedly guilty of unexcused absences in this situation.
 
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There is no way the mandatory attendance policy will not be flexible.  You have high schoolers watching younger siblings,  multiple kids sharing devices, elderly relatives watching the kids who can’t necessarily guide them in DL, children with special needs who have a hard time with DL, etc.  If equity is the main goal,  they have to be very flexible.[/quote]

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