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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its ridiculous that I'm getting notified and asked in these letters/messages if there is any way to help reduce absences for my 2 elementary age kids who have been out ill various times this year w fever and respiratory illnesses.  They are going after the wrong people.  Should be a way to indicate excused absences for illness vs unexcused.  So it doesn't trigger a ridiculous notification.[/quote]

Agreed. The school district needs to get serious about absenteeism and differentiate between students who are ill and those who are skipping.[/quote]
Attendance requirements flow down from the state. The state does not make a distinction between excused and unexcused absences, so MCPS can’t. One criteria that the state rates schools on is overall absenteeism rate and they also require the school systems to actively push parents to get students to attend.

While there are definitely students who are ILL and shouldn’t come to school, and there are definitely students who are just skipping school, there are also a LOT of students who don’t come to school because they “don’t feel well” and parents write an excuse note. HS is particularly bad and some students clearly use excused absences to miss quizzes and tests or spend a day catching up on assignments that were due. That pattern gets established in MS and ES. [/quote]

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