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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our former principal made teachers document one attempt per day per student who was absent even though there were automatic robocalls. So if 4 kids were absent on Monday and they didn't return on Tuesday, I had to call all 4 parents and then document each call in a spreadsheet that was shared with admin. You can imagine how time consuming this became when appr. 60-70% of my students were chronically absent. [/quote]

Bravo for your principal to try to do something to address the issue. I would agree though that probably the calls should be manned by the school administrators or secretarial staff including the attendance secretary.

When has anyone in MCPS listened to the generic robo call? It says the your child (doesn’t name the child if you have multiple children) was missing either part or all of a class. The call doesn’t differentiate between a tardy, an absence, or the number of classes impacted. The attendance data is also inaccurate, sometimes marking my child present for a class when absent. [/quote]
If you aren't following up on the robo-call, that's on you.[/quote]

I drop my children off at school and I pick them up. The attendance record keeping is atrocious. If there was a serious problem, I would expect the school or a teacher to reach out to me. A robo call is so generic that it doesn’t even differentiate between which child or which class was impacted or if a child was simply late to a class.[/quote]

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