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Reply to "Roughly 25% of MCPS students are chronically absent, and absenteeism response plan delayed "
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[quote=Anonymous]When one of my brothers was in middle school, he developed school refusal. He wasn’t a bad kid, but we were in a really bad home life situation, he had severe LDs and anxiety, and he was dealing with the fear that being a six foot tall 11 year old black boy invoked in white teachers. So he stopped attending school. We didn’t know this term school refusal. No school official or therapist used it in reference to my brother. If it was used in the 1980s, it wasn’t applied to poor black kids. Probably not poor kids of any color. He was declared truant. My parents were told they would go to jail if he continued. This threat didn’t stop his panic attacks at the door. In the end, he made himself so physically sick that he got Home and Hospital for the rest of the school year. Then, he bounced around a few private religious schools for two years, where attendance wasn’t enforced, but LDs were not acknowledged, let alone accommodated.[/quote]
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