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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][QUOTE]Attendance: Absences from skipping class disqualify for make-up work.[/QUOTE]

How on earth does MCPS plan on identifying, assessing and discerning which absences are legitimately due to skipping and not errors on their part due to subs not knowing how to take attendance, teachers forgetting to do attendance, or tardies being mistakenly marked as absences?

There's no way they have the scale and manpower to do this.[/quote]

It’s actually pretty easy to identify. Either we mark them as unexcused absent or the system already shows the absence as “excused.” If the absence isn’t planned, parents can submit a note if the child was really sick or another legitimate reason identified by the student handbook to the attendance office. The teachers can then see it’s excused, and voila, the kid can make up the work.

This was actually policy and it DID work for many years until we got too soft with COVID.

I bet this PP is just a 17 year old who’s pissed they can’t skip to get McDonalds anymore.

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You did not address the staff errors. I’m not a kid and I have firsthand experience with subs not knowing how to take attendance and marking my kid absent, or teachers making a mistake. I know it was a mistake because when I emailed teachers to inquire about the absences they would apologize and correct it.[/quote]

As a regular sub at high schools, one thing we can do is take attendance. Many kids try to use “I had a sub” when they skip class. I always repeat several times the names of kids marked absent, so there are no mistakes. Now, if a kid says they need to go to the bathroom at the start of class and then are gone for the rest of the period - he/she is marked absent. I let the attendance secretary know the circumstances.[/quote]

Are you arguing with me about my lived experience? I literally said I emailed to inquire and a few times, it turned out the sub messed. And a couple times, it was teacher error.

I’m not just going off of what my kid said. I followed up with the school.[/quote]

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