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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most are dropouts, or their parents never put them back in school (not home schooling).

There was a news report about DCPS officials doing wellness checks on some of the missing students when they didn't return after Covid closures ended.  It's a difficult job, and I'm sure not every district in the US has the personnel to do direct contacts. [/quote]

I agree that many are drop outs.  My niece is one of them. My sister enrolled her in online high school and paid the tuition for 2 years but never bothered to make sure she did any of the work. For what should have been her senior year my sister didn't even bother to pay tuition. No one from the public school district ever checked up on her. In the spring the online school contacted my sister and made an offer of my niece taking final exams for a fee. If she passed the exams they would give her a full high school diploma. She passed. I'm sure there are variations of stories like this as well as the more typical stories of parents working and kids not going to school and the system not noticing.[/quote]

That's a good advertisement for the online school - not sure why you think the public school district should have checked on her when she was enrolled in a different school though.[/quote]

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