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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They don't check if a kid is skipping?[/quote]

Of course we do. Every child in the hallway should have both an electronic pass and a physical pass.[/quote]

What if they are in the bathroom skipping?[/quote]

If a kid doesn't enter class, they are marked UNV in attendance and an email/phone call home happens. At that point, if the parent dropped off the child, hopefully they are contacting the school to question where they are and starting a search to track the kid down.

If a student is present for 3 periods a day but missing for the 4th, the admin assistants (at my school at least) run a report each day that flags those kids. They email me confirming attendance, and then admin is notified.

If a child enters class, asks to go to the bathroom, and disappears for 45 minutes, they will have an electronic pass confirming their departure time from class. A teacher can request admin track down the child (often by looking up the video footage of hallways to determine where the child went after leaving the classroom), and assign consequences as necessary.

Teachers with hall duty can pop their heads in the restroom of the same gender and call out if they observe a child in the bathroom for long periods of time. They can either help escort the child to the clinic if there is a health reason they are in there so long, or they can call security to escort them to be searched. They can ask any child in the hall to see their physical pass (bathroom pass or paper check out pass) if they are suspicious of why they are not in class. Refusal is justification to notify admin/security who can then look up video footage and determine who the child was and identify where they were supposed to be.

It is way, way more restrictive than it was when I was in high school. All of this relies on a LOT of people doing a LOT of work.[/quote]

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