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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really think most of this is all the shuffling around going on. Kids moving in with grandparents, enrolling or unenrolling at private schools, kindergartners being pulled to redshirt or attend an in person day care etc.

Let's see how things look in October before panicking. [/quote]

moving in with grandparents? seriously? that is totally ridiculous. [b]it is exactly what it looks like: massive numbers of poor students dropping out of the school system altogether.[/b] it's happening in city after city. everyone should be panicking. [/quote]

But it's not what Perry presents it as. I'm at a high poverty school. Our students are enrolled and attending. I know staff at other high poverty schools and their students are there too. The issue is PAPERWORK and DC's strict requirement of enrolling and proving residency each year. The only grades that are truly under-enrolled are pre-school and pre-K. The city does need to address this, especially for at-risk kids. [/quote]

Nobody cares about the paperwork (and we know DC doesn't lift a finger to try to prove residency). [b]The issue is the number of kids logging into class. Last year there were 99,000 students in the system. According to the story, only 77,000 have actually logged in at least once. That's 20,000 who have never logged in -- not once. How many thousands more have only logged in once or twice?  [/b][/quote]

The city should release daily figures on how many students are logging in. [/quote]

As far as I can tell as a teacher the only ‘attendance’ data DCPS has is kids signing into Canvas at some point during the day.  There is no official class period attendance being recorded.  Teachers were told not to record attendance for class in Aspen.  So there is no way the percent of kids attending class is even close to the percent of kids signing into Canvas.  As an anecdote, my school was really proud of getting 97% attendance one day when I had at least 8 kids out of my classes (high school).  [/quote]

the city seems to have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy on children attending school. [/quote]

That is ridiculous.  What happens when school does return in person and [b]these kids are 2,3,4 years below grade level?[/b]  [/quote]

You just described every (except maybe Wilson) high school in the city. And many MS. Your faux concern would be cute if it wasn't so cravenly in furtherance of your agenda. Let's see if your concern survives school reopening. [/quote]

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