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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, it's a huge problem, and growing. Mostly school avoidance and mental health issues. No one is sure exactly what the cause is. I think the rolling gradebook and the required 7 assignments and 2 tests per quarter might have something to do with it - work just piles up and up and quickly becomes overwhelming.[/quote]

7 assignments and 2 tests per quarter is not a lot of work.  It's very little work.

The attendance is bad because of the crappy schedule and residual effects of how FCPS implemented covid computer learning and post covid computer learning and grading scales.

Ask any parent of teens

Fcps made consistent in person school and deadlines irrelevant for the current crop of kids. It will be like this for a few more years.[/quote]

I’m a parent of two teens. You don’t speak for me. My children attend school consistently and they take their work seriously.

The home sets the tone.

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False. Our home consists of one college professor and one public school teacher, and I assure you we have always taken school seriously. And yet we have one child who will not go anymore. We have friends with the same problem. Have fun patting yourself on the back for what is basically luck. Hope your children never have any mental health problems that your "tone" can't solve.[/quote]

I'm curious what you think are the reasons for the school refusal and if any are valid.  My older child did fine but my younger one wants to go to Vo Tech for Robotics for half a day during senior year.  He has Physics PhDs and National Merit high scorers in his family - smart people who love school on both sides.  Until this quarter he had a 3.8 unweighted in top rigor classes.  He hates being in class with low motivation students and it seems to be too late for his parents (us) to turn his bad attitude around.  We are constantly hearing stories of personal issues that teachers and other students are having that impact the class environment.  It is very disappointing.  We have loosely considered private school but it just gets access to richer kids, not better students, in our area.  He refused to try for the grind magnet in our area because it's notorious for hours of homework only to place kids in the same colleges as our regular high school.[/quote]

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