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[quote=Anonymous]This isn’t about kids staying home when they’re sick. I have taught at school like this where absences run rampant. Families schedule cruises in the middle of January because it’s cheaper than winter break, miss the entire month of December to visit out of country family, schedule a dentist appointment at 9:30 and miss the whole school day. They miss a week of school to play in an out of state soccer tournament, or come to school 2 hours late every day because they are out late at dance class and need to sleep. Staff members (in general) aren’t mad about unavoidable, excused absences for being sick or medical appointments, but the optional things.

The email gave me the ick too, but I get it. It is frustrating to be told we are responsible for teaching child X to do Y, but then X never comes to first period or missed 20/90 days of your class or whatever.

I wish we could give consequences to parents, but schools can’t. Instead we can try to incentivize being there—it’s really the only card we have.[/quote]

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