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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
Start by demanding that family vacations are not excused regardless of the socioeconomic status of the family. Write letters to the BOE and Smith on this issue specifically. Ask why a week at Disney is an educational experience, but attending the funeral of a cousin is an excused absence.

Stop deflecting. Neither a funeral or a week at Disney would add up to 47 unexcused absences.

47 days is 9 weeks. 9 weeks. Who goes on vacation or goes to a funeral for 9 weeks?

47 unexcused absences is 47 classes. My kid's high school has 7 classes per day. So 7 days of school. Not 9 weeks of school.[/quote]

The article HEADLINE is [b]missing 47 DAYS OF ENGLISH[/b]. This is 9 weeks of a core class. Do you really think that these kids are hustling it in for math on those days? No.

This isn't about trips and it isn't happening at wealthy schools. It isn't a front office staff typing something in incorrectly. Einstein is failing large numbers of kids and hiding it to keep their numbers up. [/quote]

1 student missed 47 days of English.

Here's what the piece says:

[i]Records from Einstein High provide telling details about what students miss: One senior skipped algebra 36 times last spring. Another racked up 47 unexcused absences in English. Still another was gone for more than half a semester of chemistry.

Roughly 40 percent of Einstein’s Class of 2018 missed large chunks of instruction last school year, not showing up for some classes 10 to more than 50 times in a semester, documents show.[/i]

It would be useful if they told us how many students missed how many classes, but they don't. Nonetheless, I infer that if lots of students had missed that many classes, the article would say so, rather than singling out the 1 student on the extreme end.[/quote]

Good headlines come from the extreme end, not the average.[/quote]

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