Anonymous
09/24/2023 14:11
Subject: Unexcused absence
I've never fixed this in the past, but this year our high school claims that they are taking absences seriously. I have no idea what that means, but given that the school is saying there is a change in attitude toward them (and they are citing a district wide emphasis on reining in chronic absences) I think I would email the attendance secretary or similar with a list of the ones so far.
Anonymous
09/24/2023 08:41
Subject: Unexcused absence
Anonymous wrote:Helpful thanks. I’ll send an email but won’t stress beyond that. I am glad the school lets me know so I can at least check-in.
Our school (or maybe MCPS) has a strict policy that for athletes any absence on a game day, whether excused or not, that wasn’t pre-approved by the AD sends you to the bench for the game. One of these happened to our DD on a game day but the AD and coach talked to her about it and after they had compelling evidence she had in fact attended class they let her play. I was thankful for their reasonableness but it did make me think this was not the first time they had this kind of an inaccurate absence issue.
Happened to DD too. I think a lot of teachers take attendance early so if you're even a few minutes late they mark your child absent and they are really busy so they forget to correct and the attendance secretaries at some school can be grumpy and unhelpful.
Anonymous
09/23/2023 08:41
Subject: Unexcused absence
I don’t think anyone is enforcing this policy for individual classes. We’ve had 19 days of school, but I have a student with 11 absences already! I’ve done everything I can do as a teacher to notify the parents and support this student. The counselor and admin have done nothing. FWIW, the truant is a wealthy White non-disabled student in a two parent household.
Anonymous
09/23/2023 08:34
Subject: Unexcused absence
Helpful thanks. I’ll send an email but won’t stress beyond that. I am glad the school lets me know so I can at least check-in.
Our school (or maybe MCPS) has a strict policy that for athletes any absence on a game day, whether excused or not, that wasn’t pre-approved by the AD sends you to the bench for the game. One of these happened to our DD on a game day but the AD and coach talked to her about it and after they had compelling evidence she had in fact attended class they let her play. I was thankful for their reasonableness but it did make me think this was not the first time they had this kind of an inaccurate absence issue.
Our school (or maybe MCPS) has a strict policy that for athletes any absence on a game day, whether excused or not, that wasn’t pre-approved by the AD sends you to the bench for the game. One of these happened to our DD on a game day but the AD and coach talked to her about it and after they had compelling evidence she had in fact attended class they let her play. I was thankful for their reasonableness but it did make me think this was not the first time they had this kind of an inaccurate absence issue.