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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haven't read all of these pages, but can one of the pro-legislation people help me understand how the law would handle this scenario?

A parent has a kid who didn't log in or participate in school at all last year. They're sadly uninvested in their child's education, and they don't send their kid to school or participate in virtual. How does the legislation prevent this type of neglect?[/quote]

I'm not pro-"this portion of the legislation" but they'd tell you that the school could just say no to those parents.  So the onus is still on the school to decide who is good or bad.  With some mystery rubric.[/quote]

Oh, is there a mechanism for that? I'm not being like a "citation please" person, but I would like to read that part of the legislation. [/quote]

Read the first post of this thread.[/quote]

I did look through it but didn't see that part. Admittedly, I am not great at reading legal-ese, so maybe it just didn't jump out at me.[/quote]

"Further, students whose families who have made the choice to keep them home due to concerns around the safety of the school environment and school buildings [b]should be able to receive an excused absence from their school[/b]. The bill grants the school the ability to provide this excused absence through January 15, 2022."[/quote]

The school can grant the excused absence or not.[/quote]

this quote doesn't establish a rubric or even provide grounds through which the school could say no.[/quote]

If the linked document is actually the legislation, it's totally incoherent and standardless.  Doesn't the council have any legislative drafters? [/quote]

Have you read the amendment? It's even worse (see the reference to "COVID-10"). The justification included with the new paragraph suggests that DCPS wasn't consulted until after the original legislation was drafted.[/quote]

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