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[quote=Anonymous]County Council held a session on chronic absenteeism. Here's the full session if you have the patience to sit through it:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otl-YeERKkg[/youtube]

A few key takeaways:

- MCPS does everything in its power to ignore and lock the other way at absenteeism and truancy
- There's a cap on the number of kids who can be sent to State's Attorney Truancy Prevention Program and that number is 10
- MCPS does not feel like students bear responsibility or accountability for the increase in absenteeism and truancy. They are perpetual victims and teachers and the school system just have to work harder at forging relationships, especially antiracist ones
- MCPS completely avoided and skirted mentioning how their decision, post-pandemic, to not enforce attendance policies put fuel on the fire of the absenteeism crisis. Dawn went after them a little on this but Mr. Neff dodged and answered on a technicality by saying that there were referrals to the TRB post-pandemic, which wasn't the question she was asking.[/quote]

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