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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good luck trying to get families whose kids miss a lot of school to send theirkids to school. I have no idea what enforcement mechanism that State thinks exists to try and get parents to make their kids attend school or stay at school if they go. It sounds like a ridiculous measure since it is not one that any School or County is in a position to enforce.

Emails and phone calls have not done the trick. I doubt that we are going to see kids brought to school by Police or parents arrested for not sending kids to school. So does the VDOE have some suggestions on how to enforce attendance?[/quote]

We have 15 kids in our neighborhood who went through middle school pandemic "school"

The kids got As for doing nothing and simply logging in most of the time.

Those kids were feral when they started back to real school in 9th grade.

A couple, the ones who transfered to private school for 2020-21, and the ones with hyper parent enrichment, or kids with a personality well suited to distance learning seemed to fare ok.

Around half of them started to dial into school, kinda sorta, towards the end of sophomore year.  Many had huge gaps in math, science and writing compared to where high school students should be.  Many are addicted to social media.

Probably a quarter of them learned the lesson that school is an after thought and attendance really doesn't matter.  The unlimited retake policy and lax standards kept in place through the end of last year didn't help them recover from lost schooling.  For them, it just reinforced the idea that school is not important.  Social media addiction made things 1000x worse for them.

Several of them are still struggling with attendance and school.  Their parents are trying everything, and are besides themselves with frustration, anger, sadness and hopelessness

I am fortunate that my kid falls into that second group, thanks in large part to the year in private school and some amazing and dedicated high school teachers that enforced normal grading standards in spite of FCPS lax requirements.

I do not fault those parents from the last group.  Their kids are still a mess from pandemic, in spite of their parents trying to move heaven and earth to keep them on track.

Some of those kids know there is a problem, but trying to fix it as a junior or senior brings a whole new type of hopelessness for the teen that just perpetuates the bad behavior

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I know you said you don’t blame the parents, but they are partly to blame. A big part of being a parent is keeping your kid on track you use the phrase “move heaven and earth” But what did that actually entail?[/quote]

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