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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

It’s actually pretty easy to identify. Either we mark them as unexcused absent or the system already shows the absence as “excused.” If the absence isn’t planned, parents can submit a note if the child was really sick or another legitimate reason identified by the student handbook to the attendance office. The teachers can then see it’s excused, and voila, the kid can make up the work.

This was actually policy and it DID work for many years until we got too soft with COVID.

I bet this PP is just a 17 year old who’s pissed they can’t skip to get McDonalds anymore.

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You did not address the staff errors. I’m not a kid and I have firsthand experience with subs not knowing how to take attendance and marking my kid absent, or teachers making a mistake. I know it was a mistake because when I emailed teachers to inquire about the absences they would apologize and correct it.[/quote]

I didn’t address the staff errors because that is an anomaly. Could it happen? Sure. But most of the time, we assign work, and I can check to see if your kid did it (or part of it). If it’s a true error, or we don’t want to deal with a parent’s complaining, we just change it. Normally, major All Tasks aren’t given with a sub, so the work given would have little to no impact on their grade if there was an error.

To address another PP with an actual valid claim, we can tell if they are skipping if it is either 1) unexcused or 2) they were marked present for some classes and not ours. If they are absent all day or leave for part of the day for an appointment, that must get excused.

I think people on this thread forget that most of these kids are still minors. Parents have the responsibility to let the school know if the kid is out for a valid reason.

And for the people on here saying it’s inequitable… the parents who are lazy or just willfully don’t want to learn need to step up. That’s actually your job as a parent. And if it’s language related, that’s also a moot point as most school personnel are bilingual and we have translation services.

For kids who skip to work a job, those students need to be tracked to a different program (internship, GED, etc).

We have to stop letting our students fail, cheat their way through credit recovery, and expect them, at the same time, to leave with an actual education that prepares them for college or a career[/quote]

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