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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would argue that determining an excused versus unexcused absence is not equal across the district.  And parents know how to game the system- more than 1.3% of Walls kids miss 20 days of school a year- their parents just know how to get those absences excused.[/quote]

20 days is a LOT. It takes a big effort to miss that much in HS and presumably most Walls families care about academics and won’t miss that much. Also DCPS is pretty strict about how they determine excused/unexcused. Are you seriously arguing that 50% of Walls students miss 4 weeks of school and their parents give fake dr notes?[/quote]

Nope not 50% but definitely more than 1.3%.  That is claiming that out of a school of 600 kids only like 7 are truant.  It’s not actually that hard to miss 20 days of school.  That’s about two days a month.  I said parents know how to play the system.  You only need a doctor’s note after five consecutive days.  And truancy is only ten unexcused days so way more than 1.3% meet that threshold.  You can incredulous but it’s definitely true.[/quote]

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