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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know someone asked why ATS is different from other option schools and someone else mentioned absenteeism.  For  reference. ATS has 1.7% of kids with chronic absenteeism. Claremont is 18.83% and Campbell is 19.94%.

Everyone can discuss this to death. But it is the makeup of the school. THAT is the difference. ATS doesn't have some magic solution. They haven't solved education. They have a very specific self selecting group of families who highly value education. And that is super wonderful.

It is just hard to fight against nearly 20% of the school being chronically absent. The population of the school is just different.

Also, this got me looking at absentee rates at schools.

Drew 23.66%
Randolph 21.76%
Barcroft 15.5%

Lets Compare to N. Arlington schools

Nottingham .51%
Taylor 4.02% 
Cardinal 2.14%

Chronic Absenteeism is probably the real problem we need to solve to help close the achievement gap.

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The Claremont and Campbell #s are surprising. Like ATS, these are families that know enough to get into a lottery and are choosing a particular school . So what’s going on that nearly 20% are chronically absent? [/quote]

I can't speak to Campbell as I don't go there, but I know at Claremont we have a lot of parents who refuse to send their kid to school in cold temperatures because they think it will make them get sick. But I don't know that it is that much and obviously last winter wasn't that bad! Honestly, I have no idea! The demographics of the absentee rate aren't broken down at all. I also am not sure if tardies play into that number at all (I think I heard somewhere that if kids are a certain number of time late it counts as an absence). [/quote]

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