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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a former Wilson student. During my senior yr, I know I missed over 70 days. Despite missing those days, I graduated, attended the University of Maryland and now have a rewarding career.  Just because students miss class, doesn't mean they can't grasp the concepts.  Students can watch online content to learn and receive support in other places. School is just a building where learning is &quot;expected&quot; to occur.  Tons of learning happens outside of the classroom and online now.  Also, alot of the senior courses are unnecessary classes. In my case, I only needed to take an English class to graduate, however my counselor gave me other classes that I could BS through and pass easily without attending regularly.

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If that’s the case, then there’s obviously something wrong with the high school. Either you weren’t taking classes that were sufficiently challenging and interesting enough to compel your attendance or those classes weren’t offered. If they weren’t offered, that’s a problem that should be fixed. If you weren’t taking the most interesting and rigorous courseload, well, that’s on you and you shouldn’t have been granted a diploma for taking up space and taxpayer money to do nothing your senior year of high school. [/quote]

NP here.  PP, you're a moron.  The PPs took the courses required not only to graduate, but to prepare them for college and a career.  There is no reason that --- because your odd sense of morality seems to demand it --- that they should have to do more.  What should change is the notion that kids who are passing rigorous classes need to sit in those classes, or that kids who have fulfilled their high school requirements need to be in the building.

I'm another who missed most of my senior year.  In my case, I was traveling almost every week for athletic or academic competitions.  Track, swim team, debate, forensics, model UN, etc.  I was hardly ever at school.  I graduated top 2% of my class of &gt;500 kids, received a national merit scholarship and had the balance of my tuition at a selective private university paid by a merit-based academic scholarship.  I graduated undergrad with cum laud and with honors,  got an MBA, started my own business and have done quite well.  One of my classmates (back in the '80s) had an office job every afternoon.  He'd come to school in a suit and tie, leave at lunch and miss every afternoon.  Since he was also the guy who made the few primitive computers at the school run, the let the absences slide.

High school absenteeism comes in multiple flavors.
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Social sciences emergency! We need a full class period dedicated to the discussion of “anecdotes are not data”! Somehow, with all that Amazing Education and Professional Success, this poster never learned such a simple concept![/quote]

Sorry - did I miss the post where ANYONE on this thread posted actual data demonstrating that the kids who are absent are underachieving students?  Or if they aren't, data demonstrating causation between attendance for highly achieving students and college or career success? Or any information about who the chronically absent kids are?  Or really any data at all about the impact of all these absences on learning?  Have the people who are advocating that kids who have met graduation requirements be forced to sit around in school presented any data (or, God forbid, even any anecdotes) to support that notion?

I get that you think it makes you sound smart to say “anecdotes are not data,” but please learn how to evaluate, present and discuss data to support your ideas before trotting out the tired catchphase you learned to sound smart.

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It's in the report published by OSSE, yeah basically they are![/quote]

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