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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would love to see some more nuanced data on this.  Are they saying 18 full days?  What do the parents say when contacted?  How many can't be reached, versus how many say they didn't know, versus how many say that there was a good reason, versus how many say that their kid is out of control and there's nothing they can do?

At a lot of schools, the attendance records aren't accurate because subs don't keep them correctly or teachers can't correct them for tardies.  Also some parents don't bother to write notes when a kid is coming in late after an orthodontist appointment or similar appointment, because no one really cares about that.  [/quote]
At my HS we’ve been cracking down on better record keeping, and it really is astonishing how many kids are skipping school full or partial days. Parental excuses are all over the map. Some know their kid is home - actually sick, “doesn’t feel good”, school refusal, kid doesn’t want to get up. Some write excuses for anything, some don’t. Some send kid out the door but kid doesn’t arrive at school. Some kids arrive at school and then selectively attend classes. Leave early for lunch, arrive late from lunch, go to the portables for class but don’t actually go in, hide somewhere in the building - it’s crazy.

In 4th quarter alone I had 15/85 students in an _Honors_ course absent more than 10 days out of the first 30 (and not due to testing). 5 kids I saw at most 10 times. Most of them didn’t pass due to never turning in work. I spent a lot of time in both 3rd and 4th quarter with emails, phone calls, and student conferences to try to get them engaged, attending, and turning in work. Didn’t make a difference.[/quote]

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