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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are PPs on this thread really role playing as parents of chronically absent kids? [/quote]

I've been defending the position that absenteeism is a symptom of a larger problem (low-value classes) rather than a problem in itself. No, my kid is not chronically absent and I never claimed as much. However, I don't see the big deal if they were, especially if it was for something else high value such as travel, which I suspect is a pretty common source of "chronic absenteeism".

I also trust my kid to make good judgement about how to spend their time. They do well in challenging classes and are not social media or video games addicts. So if they also skip here and there to get coffee instead of going to class, I just don't understand the problem. If they started skipping a ton, I would look into the possibility that they might have a problem but I would also keep an open mind to the possibility that school is not a good use of their time and they have found more efficient ways of learning the material on their own.[/quote]

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