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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]

Why couldn’t the attendance secretary and an intern make these calls and keep the spreadsheet everyday?[/quote]

What intern? Our secretary is busy all day long and wouldn't have time to make all of these calls.[/quote]

In our ES we have two secretaries.  One called the Administrative Secretary and the other the Attendance Secretary.  Now they are both busy all day, but if we are working on chronic absenteeism and making call a multiple times, it would make logical sense that the Attendance Secretary would be involved.

Similarly, at the HS, there are two-three secretaries, plus an Attendance secretary.  And there are kids that are in the office that will go get a student if the teacher doesn’t pick up the phone or the kid doesn’t come down on their on based on an agreed upon time.  Again, these folks all look busy (except the students)and I’m not sure what they are doing but would logically assume the attendance or someone would be involved in this process of tracking down kids/making parents aware.

This of course may not be the case, but may explain why parents are confused why this work is being placed on teachers alone.[/quote]

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