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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid has been in title one schools since the beginning (5th grade now) and has NEVER had classmates show up for the first time after labor day. Who are these kids not showing up at the beginning of the year??[/quote]

Things get much worse once you get to high school, unfortunately. I've only been at this for three years, but I remember being really optimistic at the end of my first week. My assistant principal cautioned me to not get too excited. "The ones you're gonna have problems with won't show up until after Labor Day." She was so right. All of the kids on my roster who I assumed got into charters and never came off the list magically showed up after Labor Day. It had to be at least 20% of ninth grade class.

Since I started, I've learned that they don't come to school until after Labor Day, they don't come to school when it rains, and they rack up at least 20-30 absences apiece. Some consistently come to school around second period as if they have a special schedule. All of those SIG grants go to making school more attractive than whatever is out there in the streets, hence all of the field trips, parties, and gifts. Nine times out of ten, when you call home the parents say that they thought the kid was at school. I've had some come up to the school just to make sure we weren't lying about them disappearing for weeks at a time.

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And no "prize" is going to change that behavior.  Waste of money.[/quote]

Oh, you get no argument from me. I was just explaining that the late arrivals are real. DCPS hasn't changed much from when I was a kid. We went a whole year without a Math textbook one year. The teacher just kept making copies of the teacher's guide chapter by chapter. That was the same year they bought us all Newsweek subscriptions to supposedly help our reading scores on the Stanford 9. [/quote]

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