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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One factor that the state rates schools on is attendance. They don’t distinguish between excused and unexcused absences. The state is concerned about the high rate of absenteeism across the state and it requires the school systems to send these types of notices and to work to connect with parents and resolve issues in order to get kids to attend school. Ultimately, MCPS doesn’t control whether or not a kid attends consistently, yet is expected to solve the problem. It’s no win.

These notices just aren’t worth complaining about.

Side note, the state changed requirements around withdrawals from school so that kids who are unexcused absent for 10 days are supposed to be withdrawn. For some reason some parents who didn’t care if their HS kid attended at all during a quarter cared a lot if the kid was withdrawn. It’s weird. Admin would finally tell the parent they were withdrawing the kid, and suddenly the kid would be in class. Still wouldn’t get work done. Would attend regularly for a couple weeks, then occasionally, then gone again. Rinse and repeat. Happened with several kids last year, and I can see it’s going to happen again this year.[/quote]

I just love these stories![/quote]

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