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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get that this is an issue, but not the highest priority for the district. I agree with a poster above that if you crack down on this you would just get more dropouts. Honestly, kids who don’t want to be in class are better off not being there. We have enough disruptive students already.[/quote]

It is frustrating. One class period I teach (MS) has never had 100% attendance. Never. Not out of 178 days of school. Always at least one student absent. Often 4-5. Some students are absent at least once a week. Some miss two or more days each week. They do not connect school attendance to success in the course, let alone success in the future. One stays home every week on her mom’s day off. The mom is very young (late 20s). They sleep late, watch movies, get their nails or hair done, and make TikTok videos. The mom’s position is that she’s got this one day a week to be a mom since she works multiple jobs and her kid is with grandma the other six days. She says that when she was in MS, she stayed home to watch her siblings.

Kids don’t always miss class because they don’t value education or feel bored. Kids miss class because they are embarrassed to not read well or not know the answers. Or because they feel unsafe in class due to racism, sexism, and bullying. Or they have somatic illnesses due to stress and depression.

They are not better off not being there because the less schooling they get the more likely they will be stuck in low wage jobs and unable to help their own kids with school some day. [/quote]

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