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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][QUOTE]Attendance: Absences from skipping class disqualify for make-up work.[/QUOTE]

How on earth does MCPS plan on identifying, assessing and discerning which absences are legitimately due to skipping and not errors on their part due to subs not knowing how to take attendance, teachers forgetting to do attendance, or tardies being mistakenly marked as absences?

There's no way they have the scale and manpower to do this.[/quote]

I'm not following.  Is this not how things were when you were a kid?  High Schools have an attendance secretary who puts the parent phone calls/notes into the system.  It's not hard and could even be mostly automated, with parents put in an electronic absence.

The reason it's a mess right now is that there's been literally no distinction (at our school at least) between excused and unexcused.  So parents (I) don't even inform the school most of the time.  And when I remember to send the kid with a note upon return, the kid also never turns it in.  Why bother? If they tell me it will matter, I'll start doing it again.

If a kid is tardy and it's recorded as an absence, the kid approaches the teacher to fix it (and hopefully tries not to be tardy in the future).  There's no 'scale' problem.  There's only a problem of kids not tracking their absences, and it would be a good thing to teach them this responsibility.

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