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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From what I heard parents were told that schools with more than 10% of kids on track to be considered chronically absent were being required to implement measures like these. I've heard of at least one school springing a surprise lecture about attendance on parents who thought they were there for a chance to see their kids' classrooms in action.[/quote]Yep, that happened at Chesterbrook.  Parents took time off from work to ‘see’ what ‘morning meeting was like’ and instead were told to go in the library.  There, the principal gave a lecture on how absenteeism has grown since Covid and how it can impact learning later on, blah blah, blah.  This left very little time to experience morning meeting in the kids’ classrooms.  Sorry, I took time off from work![/quote]

PP here. I heard about this from a different ES, which means this was clearly an idea Gatehouse passed around.

The ridiculous thing was that the kids whose parents were likely to show up are the ones who academically are fine (even if they might have missed 5 days for a family vacation).[/quote]Yes, AND there were literally parents and families still away on family trips on that VERY day!  It was like she was preaching to the wrong crowd.  Everyone was annoyed.  No one even asked one question after her slides.  We couldn’t wait to get to anything left of the morning meeting which wasn’t much at that point!  The principal scored low on satisfaction that day. [/quote]

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