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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a magnet HS in the 80s.  We skipped class a lot . Sometimes I skipped to study for a test in another class. Sometimes I skipped to catch up on sleep because I had stayed up late to finish work or study.  Sometimes I skipped to sit in on a class that I was self-studying for the AP.  Sometimes I skipped to go to Pizza Hut.

You know when I didn't skip?  When the class was covering material that I needed to learn.  Most of the time I was skipping, it was the mandated stuff like Health class in which no substance was ever conveyed, or classes where the teacher was absent or had already announced we would be watching a movie or working on our papers or something.

My teen is pretty much the same.  She is working pretty much round the clock on her activities and her classes.  Does she skip class? Yes.  Particularly when she knows the teacher is out, or when they have one of their catch-up days when no new material is covered.  I'm not really losing any sleep over that.  There are a lot of exams that can't be re-taken, and exams are worth 90% of the grade, plus there's the actual AP exam.  So if she's skipping class when they cover material, she's going to struggle on those exams, and she knows it.

I do think part of the problem is that the poor teachers are so overworked, with so little planning/grading time, that they do have classes where the kids are working independently or in meaningless small groups to give the teachers a chance to catch up on grading.  The kids know that this is a good time to skip.  If MCPS gave the teachers more real grading periods, they could have substantive work/discussion in every class.

I also think MCPS makes it super easy for parents to track this.  I get a call whenever she misses any class, plus parentvue shows you exactly which class they missed.

I do have criticisms of MCPS, but this is not really high on my list.

But they should start taking names of every kid they see vaping or doing drugs in the bathroom and send THOSE names home every single day.  [/quote]

I know you think this because you and your daughter did this successfully, but most teenagers lack the discernment to make the right judgement calls on when material in class is or isn't important. And I would not rely on the judgement of a teenager to guide that.[/quote]

NONE of the teens in our circle skip for anything but entirely reasonable things, like PP outlined above (minus the Pizza Hut). You have to stop believing that most teens are routinely missing out on valuable instruction!!!

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I think you have to stop believing that your experience is universal. I know many teens who skip THINKING nothing important will happen only to be burned later after the fact. Stop assuming your experience is everyone's. Many teens get it wrong and that's why it's not advised for them to pick and choose when to go to school and why the state mandates attendance.[/quote]

I think you have to stop trying to spread hysteria with these wacky false narratives.[/quote]

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