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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Boo hoo. “Push back” all you want but attendance is in literal crisis right now at all levels so they’re doing what they need to do to address it. I had a student come up to me the Friday before Thanksgiving break and say she was going to her family’s country Monday and could I give her the work for the next 8 weeks. I said no. She’s going to end up failing Q2 and having to revive her grade for Q3 and Q4 but she is not the only student who will be gone for 6+ weeks this year and teachers cannot just accommodate that or other frequent absences because people think school is optional. [/quote]

5-8 weeks of absence for travel outside of scheduled breaks is *insane*. They’d have to repeat the entire grade with that in another country and risk police visits.  School is mandatory already in the DMV, or is it not?!  Honest question. [/quote]

Yes it’s mandatory. However, the courts will not take up truancy cases anymore. There’s actually no “teeth” for schools to enforce attendance anymore despite accreditation being tied to attendance. It used to be the truancy officer would get up from an attendance meeting and go TO the house to visit the parents and tell them to get their kid to school. Now there’s no mechanism to do anything when parents don’t make their kids come as required. [/quote]

How about simply a policy that you have to repeat the grade (as is the case in other countries) with 6 weeks of non-medical absence? [/quote]

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