Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Would love to see some more nuanced data on this. Are they saying 18 full days? What do the parents say when contacted? How many can't be reached, versus how many say they didn't know, versus how many say that there was a good reason, versus how many say that their kid is out of control and there's nothing they can do?
At a lot of schools, the attendance records aren't accurate because subs don't keep them correctly or teachers can't correct them for tardies. Also some parents don't bother to write notes when a kid is coming in late after an orthodontist appointment or similar appointment, because no one really cares about that.
My understanding from our MCPS school is that this includes excused absences such as due to illness - meaning we were contacted about this for our elementary schooler who has only 2 unexcused absences the entire year (due to family travel) but 20 excused absences due to the constant illness circulating everywhere. So I’d like to see a better breakdown of how many kids are “chronically absent” based on unexcused absences before deciding whether this warrants the level of concern it seems to be provoking.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:People, your kids missing school due to a handful of appointments are not who they are talking about. Students are missing 50+ days of school year after year and nothing happens. They are no consequences so they keep doing it.
Chronically absent is 10%, so 18days and it includes excused and I excused absences.
18 school days is 3 1/2 weeks of school. 25% of students are absent 3 1/2 weeks of school. This is at a time when students are not meeting state standards in math.
Any ideas from MCPS on how they are going to address the problem?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:People, your kids missing school due to a handful of appointments are not who they are talking about. Students are missing 50+ days of school year after year and nothing happens. They are no consequences so they keep doing it.
Chronically absent is 10%, so 18days and it includes excused and I excused absences.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:People, your kids missing school due to a handful of appointments are not who they are talking about. Students are missing 50+ days of school year after year and nothing happens. They are no consequences so they keep doing it.
Chronically absent is 10%, so 18days and it includes excused and I excused absences.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Chronic student absenteeism and the lack of a MCPS response is the purpose of this thread. If you want to start a different thread regarding teacher absenteeism then please have at it. However, just like any employer, MCPS has to honor legitimate reasons for teachers are absent. As a PP pointed out, just because a teacher is not in the classroom doesn’t mean they are not performing another job duty for MCPS.
Likewise, students are allowed excused absences. Doctor appointment or dental appointments would classify as an excused absence and would require a parental or provider note.
For students who are considered chronically absent, is there data on the percentage of excused absences vs. not excused? How many students are considered to be habitually truant?
Any word on when MCPS hopes to have a plan for addressing this problem?
Schools and leadership teams are working on this issue. The data is not currently broken out by excused absence vs not executed. Nor does it break out whether a kid is chronically missing some classes vs the whole day vs leaving early.
Anonymous wrote:People, your kids missing school due to a handful of appointments are not who they are talking about. Students are missing 50+ days of school year after year and nothing happens. They are no consequences so they keep doing it.
Anonymous wrote:Chronic student absenteeism and the lack of a MCPS response is the purpose of this thread. If you want to start a different thread regarding teacher absenteeism then please have at it. However, just like any employer, MCPS has to honor legitimate reasons for teachers are absent. As a PP pointed out, just because a teacher is not in the classroom doesn’t mean they are not performing another job duty for MCPS.
Likewise, students are allowed excused absences. Doctor appointment or dental appointments would classify as an excused absence and would require a parental or provider note.
For students who are considered chronically absent, is there data on the percentage of excused absences vs. not excused? How many students are considered to be habitually truant?
Any word on when MCPS hopes to have a plan for addressing this problem?
Anonymous wrote:My daughter just graduated from MCPS, and hardly went to school. her pediatrician even understood why she did not want to be in that environment, with drugs, verbal assaults , requests to sext etc ......she basicaly taught herself. She refused to return to private school.
MCPS did nothing ! Other than the daily call from a robot telling me my kid was absent, yes, I already knew ......no attendance plan, no calls from the grade chair, absolutely nothing. And passed.
The decline in MCPS is staggering.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My daughter just graduated from MCPS, and hardly went to school. her pediatrician even understood why she did not want to be in that environment, with drugs, verbal assaults , requests to sext etc ......she basicaly taught herself. She refused to return to private school.
MCPS did nothing ! Other than the daily call from a robot telling me my kid was absent, yes, I already knew ......no attendance plan, no calls from the grade chair, absolutely nothing. And passed.
The decline in MCPS is staggering.
Here we have a parent who knows their kid skips school, does nothing about it, and then complains that MCPS doesn’t try harder to get them to go.
This is why teachers are quitting.
Anonymous wrote:My daughter just graduated from MCPS, and hardly went to school. her pediatrician even understood why she did not want to be in that environment, with drugs, verbal assaults , requests to sext etc ......she basicaly taught herself. She refused to return to private school.
MCPS did nothing ! Other than the daily call from a robot telling me my kid was absent, yes, I already knew ......no attendance plan, no calls from the grade chair, absolutely nothing. And passed.
The decline in MCPS is staggering.
Anonymous wrote:My daughter just graduated from MCPS, and hardly went to school. her pediatrician even understood why she did not want to be in that environment, with drugs, verbal assaults , requests to sext etc ......she basicaly taught herself. She refused to return to private school.
MCPS did nothing ! Other than the daily call from a robot telling me my kid was absent, yes, I already knew ......no attendance plan, no calls from the grade chair, absolutely nothing. And passed.
The decline in MCPS is staggering.
Anonymous wrote:My daughter just graduated from MCPS, and hardly went to school. her pediatrician even understood why she did not want to be in that environment, with drugs, verbal assaults , requests to sext etc ......she basicaly taught herself. She refused to return to private school.
MCPS did nothing ! Other than the daily call from a robot telling me my kid was absent, yes, I already knew ......no attendance plan, no calls from the grade chair, absolutely nothing. And passed.
The decline in MCPS is staggering.