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Reply to "MCPS has no idea what it's doing when it comes to chronic absenteeism"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Somebody from the 90s, correct me if I’m wrong. When I was in high school, I recall that after a certain amount of unexcused absences your grade would be docked. Meaning you could actually fail a class. Back then there was such a thing as failing classes and not graduating, so maybe bring that back? I could be wrong because I did not have unexcused absences.[/quote] If you watch the BOE meeting video (I know it's long) this was addressed by Damon Monteleone. Long story short, LC or E3 (which are the two policies you described that MCPS had in place) were inconsistently enforced in a way that was racist/inequitable. Black and brown kids were issued LCs or E3s disproportionately because their parents were less likely to write excuse notes for their absences compared to their white and Asian counterparts. So long story short: MCPS doesn't want to bring those policies back because they believe them to be racist.[/quote]
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