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

Why do you assume low income families wouldn't know or do this as well?  They can make it so you have a doctors note after a certain number to deal with irresponsible parents like you.  Why is it you blame others for your bad behavior.[/quote]

I know because retroactively low income parents would tell us teachers that they wish they had known they could have just written a note. And I’m not talking about instances where students were absent more than four consecutive days. I’m talking about the old LC policy which was 5+ unexcused absences or 10 unexcused tardies at any time during the semester. The doctor’s note existed before the LC policy and has nothing to do with anything I or anyone else (teacher or parent) did to try to mitigate low income kids being LCed unfairly while MC kids skated free.[/quote]

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