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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is terrible! Why would they do this? Kids who loved school will now learn to hate it. They make it so unfun. [/quote] Kids who were skipping school were one of the main reasons for changing the policy, because once they had their first or third quarter grade set, they could blow off the second or fourth quarter classes and still pass.[/quote] They should instead have a policy where if you have more than 6 unexcused absences or what ever number you fail the class. Or make attendance part of the grade.[/quote] We had that. I do miss the LC policy, but the truth is that it was never applied with fidelity. Every middle class parent I knew (myself included) gamed the system by writing notes to cover our kids’ absences and tardies. Low income parents didn’t know this. In some cases, I told parents what to write in a note so I didn’t have to LC their kid for things other kids were getting away with.[/quote]
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