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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As usual, the SMOB has the most sober and common sense take on the issue:

[twitter]https://twitter.com/SamitheSMOB/status/1788971042733469869[/twitter]

Contrary to popular beliefs, adolescent minds can be pretty binary. Either it's required or it's not. And if it's required but there's no consequence if they don't meet the requirement, kids pretty quickly figure it's not actually required.

Adults have decided to stop being adults and have decided kids, who developmentally lack the ability to grasp the long-term effects of their choices and decisions, are best suited to make decisions that limit their potential and development in the long-run.[/quote]

Sami is smart and eloquent (and by the way, he did compliment the work in progress to make school more accessible to students) but that doesn't mean he understands the situation of at-risk teens who might not be on college track and frankly might not even need what high school is offering them. [/quote]

There is a solution for at-risk teens: They're called PPWs. Those PPWs are why Steve Neff is there. And there's a host of wraparound services to help those at-risk teens.

But Sami was talking about the kids who aren't at-risk but just skip or don't go to school because there's no consequence. Those kids are the majority and they're the ones who are just below, above or at the chronically absent mark and he's telling they are absent because they know there's no consequence if they miss class. He was very clear about which subset of chronically absent students he was talking about.[/quote]

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