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[quote=Anonymous]So unlike pretty much everyone else commenting here, I am a Dranesville parent and am very supportive of this effort during the past school year.  It was communicated very clearly to parents throughout the school year, there was clear goals and methodologies communicated to teachers and support staff and at the forefront was the care and concern from the administration for the students well-being and success.

Dranesville has a pretty evenly split population between low income Hispanic families and UMC affluent families.  The school population has been declining in past years (when my 1st kid started there school population was over 800, now it is hovering around 600).  Families area leaving for 2 main reasons - to attend the local Catholic school and to send their kids to the AAP Center school.

The administration was faced with a challenge - lower chronic absenteeism rates - and they did.  They targeted the specific reasons on a family-by-family basis and provided the supports needed for each family to get those kids into their seats in the classroom each day.  There was no pressure on families to send sick kids to school (seriously? ew). And yes, the primary reasons for chronic absenteeism were 1) families not prioritizing school for their kids for voluntary or involuntary reasons and 2) lengthy vacations.

I'm not sure why so many people are so bent over an administrator facing a challenge and finding a way to successfully overcome it.  Good for the principal - the results speak for themselves.
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