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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is anyone else bothered by Jennifer Webster's quote by the post that attendance doesn't matter as long as the grade is good?  Her example was if a child can go to class 40% of the time and earn a B.

As a parent,  I wonder the value of the classroom instruction if a child can be absent 60% of the time and earn a B. Is the material challenging enough or is the problem children are skating through without merrit? Or both problems?

It's scary that Central Office staff doesn’t view the attendance numbers as a problem or something that needs addressing. [/quote]

This. school needs to be challenging enough that you will be impacted if you miss too many days. Also, my kids go to a title 1 school and none of the students are working at the family restaurant. It is usually the father with the job at night but in these cases, the mother is at home. There isnt the pressure to go to school, esp. since the end goal is to just graduate. and if you can do that and skip school all the time, then why show up? 
You should not be able to graduate if you don't meet attendance goals. showing up is a life skill and if you can't be bothered to do that, you fail. As a child of immigrant parents we would travel home during the summer. even though it was more expensive because my parents did not want us to miss.school. They worked crazy hours but took our education seriously. That seems to be lacking with many of today's families, rich, poor, immigrant, non immigrant.[/quote]

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