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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is making these kids come to school.  Read the post above from the teacher in Baltimore City.  Hold these kids back and they still won’t come to school.  Some kids miss two or three days a week without blinking an eye.  No one at home prioritizes them attending school.  So if you hold them back they still won’t learn because they don’t come to school.

Unless we could actually hold parents/families accountable for their children attending school (which I’m actually all for as a teacher), holding kids back won’t solve any problems.[/quote]

Baltimore teacher again. When you read about Baltimore students in the news who are in 9th grade but read on a third grade level, the vast majority of them have had serious chronic absentee issues since pre-k or kindergarten. I have a meeting for a student this afternoon who has missed 60+ days of kindergarten and has been late (hours late) over 70 times. Parent claims her child doesn’t like waking up early. Most of my parent teacher conferences end up as parenting sessions. Parents don’t want to make their kids do anything (go to bed, go to school, do homework, brush their teeth, etc) because it creates tension and it’s just easier to let them do what they want. [/quote]
Did covid make things worse or was it the same pre-covid?[/quote]

It made it worse but it was already bad. The least number of days missed in this year’s class is 12. Pre-Covid that was maybe 8 days. [/quote]

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