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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With younger kids it’s lack of child care/lack of job flexibility. With older kids (8th grade and up I’d say) it’s the teachers. They are so inflexible with making up work or helping kids get caught up. Kids who are at all serious about academics, or in any advanced classes at all with higher workloads, feel the pressure to show up sick or fall behind. [/quote]

This, have a 10th grader miss a week for a cold a couple of times in a semester and see what their grades look like [/quote]

+ they have a nervous breakdown making up all the work.[/quote]

That whole culture REALLY needs to change. Looking back on my life, I was never more stressed than I was in high school. College sometimes approached that level, but that was really on me for taking on too many EC activities and my college job along with regular classes. But my HS teachers 100% did not give even a single f*** about absences. I got a 0 on an in class assignment in 9th grade geometry for being at a funeral because it wasn’t an immediate family funeral, it was my great uncle and that wasn’t an excused absence.

Most adults in office jobs have the flexibility to work from home if they’re sick ... we should give kids that option if they’re sick too so they can get work done at home. Or create policies at schools so teachers don’t relish giving kids 0’s when they’re out sick. [/quote]

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