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Reply to "Roughly 25% of MCPS students are chronically absent, and absenteeism response plan delayed "
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alas, mcps will never be able to adequately address the problem if they refuse to admit the underlying issues. ICYMI: we have a big and growing immigrant population that includes teens who need to/prefer to work rather than go to school. Some of these teen boys don’t live with their parents who arent even in this country. Some are involved in criminal activity. Newsflash: they will never come to school everyday…which I believe is why you are opting for the unenroll policy…to get them off your books. Fair. But that problem is different from when families yank their kids out to travel to another country to visit relatives/go to funerals/whatever. And it isn’t the same as when we travel for fun when it’s affordable. And ICYMI: good parents keep their sick kids at home. Do you really want us sending sick kids to school? It should be rather obvious who wants an education and who doesn’t. Start there, and don’t be daft. [/quote] It is multifactorial. One problem contributing to chronic absenteeism applies to what you said within the hispanic community. But the second largest group with chronic absenteeism is not immigrant based, it's black and African-American. In that community, we have an absolute failure of parenting. Either with the absence of fathers or the enabling of mothers who refuse to believe their "little angels" aren't little angels. And with white parents, you also have enablers who feel like anything their kids do is justifiable, so they'll complain to admin and the school board when their children don't get special treatment. They'll write fake notes to excuse their child for skipping etc. Lastly, MCPS bears responsibility because they became lax in enforcing attendance policies either in the name of being "forgiving" post-pandemic or to avoid being labeled racist, because the kids with the highest rates of chronic absenteeism are black and brown. Everyone has blood on their hands in this system when it comes to this problem. [/quote]
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