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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would probably have my kids be truant too if I lived in Baltimore & couldn’t afford to move. Safer & probably not much learning going on in the schools anyway. I’m surprised there’s nothing like Boston’s METCO there.[/quote]

I'm a Baltimore City teacher and there is a lot of learning happening in my school....for the students who show up. Chronic absenteeism is a HUGE issue and it's gotten MUCH worse since the pandemic. In my class, the student who has missed the least number of days this year is a student who has been absent 12 days. 75% of my class (and probably most others) have been chronically absent which is 18 days (10% of the school year). We cannot hold students back for this. It has become next to impossible to hold students back even if they fail everything. The students who show up regularly are doing fine. Most of them will reach grade level or close to it by the end of the year. But students who miss 40+ days every year aren't ever going to meet grade level standards.[/quote]

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