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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even compared to pre-pandemic, absenteeism numbers are way up:

[twitter]https://twitter.com/KateRyanWTOP/status/1694005202540741002[/twitter][/quote]
Will they break down the absenteeism numbers by race?[/quote]

Or by school. I bet there's a pocket of consistent, serious offenders that need to be prioritized and dealt with most urgently.

And some of the absenteeism numbers have to do with failed admin leadership in those schools.[/quote]

I don't think that's true. This is a really really hard problem to manage. Our DC's school has staff visiting homes and making repeated calls to parents but there's only so much they can do. If a child is skipping school in HS sometimes things have wrong in earlier years - could be a bad teacher, awful curriculum they don't care about, an undiagnosed learning issue, bullying. My child had a terrible teacher experience one year where the teacher was the bully and it traumatized her. If she skips classes it's not the fault of the current admin. She's not skipping but I could see how if we didn't provide a middle class home, drilled in her the value of education and put her through years of expensive counseling she might have gotten to that point.[/quote]

I said [b]some[/b] of the problem is due to failed leadership. I say this specifically from the vantage point of an absent, lax, uncaring DCC high school principal who turned a blind eye to kids skipping.

I'm not discounting your experience nor am I saying it's [b]all[/b] on admin, but there are definitely [b]some admin[/b] who aren't doing their part to enforce attendance and security policies, allowing kids to leave the building and roam the hallways during class with little or no consequence.[/quote]

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