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[quote=Anonymous]The mindset of going to school is option got much much worse after COVID. Students stayed home for months so a lot of parents and kids mindset has become school is optional. It starts in kindergarten and first grade.

So many kids are absent when they stay up late watching YouTube, the weather is bad, the parents don't have to work so they don't want to get up to take them, etc. It used to be the kids would bug a lot so the parents wanted them at school, but now with phones kids will sit there watching videos on a phone for hours and hours so parents don't mind them being home.

You can track whole families where every family member has 30 to 40 to 50 absences every year. There are zero consequences now. They used to take parents to court and they could get fined. There used to be peer pressure of a kid missing that much school but now a bunch of other students miss that much school starting with kindergarten.

There needs to be truant officers paired up with social workers knocking on doors when students miss that many days. You need support AND serious consequences to make a dent in it. [/quote]

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