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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP- Teacher here and I suspect the rampant absenteeism will be a huge problem next year when students are expected to show up to school every day. So many of them took advantage of the lax rules last year. The attendance committee at our school worked their tails off last year trying to contact the parents whose kids just did nothing.[/quote]

Yes. This happened at our school way before Covid. The truancy officer basically threw up his hands and said there was nothing he could do. It’s almost impossible to retain students who fail and [b]you can’t track families down and force them to send their kids to school.[/b][/quote]

Why is this?

Homeschoolers doing a great job of raising their kids live in constant fear of not doing "enough" to show enough good work or progress at the end of the year, terrified of a trip from CPS. [b]Even though studies show that homeschoolers outperform traditionally schooled children in tests across the board.[/b]

I wonder why homeschoolers bother jumping through these hoops at all, when apparently the states don't care if kids aren't learning or even attending school. Why aren't those people getting visits from CPS and getting their kids taken away?

Such a double standard.
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Cite for this?  That sounds anecdotal.  And not my experience.[/quote]

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