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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How come you can go across the river into Arlington and they don't have a high truancy problem? I wonder if it's because most of the kids in Arlington come from a two parent household. Most kids want to know that they're loved and are well taken care of. If you're being neglected it's hard to get motivated to go to school. It's starts in the home. Let's not place the blame 100% on the schools. [/quote] Arlington's rate of single-parent households is around 20 percent, which is akin to educational hotbeds like Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Arkansas. Arlington has a 13.5 percent truancy rate (missing more than 10 percent of school days). That is not a good number. Better than DC, sure, but far from ideal.[/quote]
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