​Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere
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The pandemic changed families’ lives and the culture of education: “Our relationship with school became optional.”

Nationally, an estimated 26 percent of public school students were considered chronically absent last school year, up from 15 percent before the pandemic, according to the most recent data, from 40 states and Washington, D.C., compiled by the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute. Chronic absence is typically defined as missing at least 10 percent of the school year, or about 18 days, for any reason.

  • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Local Schools where I am just change their attendance policies and I think that’s the cause of a lot of it around here. I was talking to the attendance office the other day and they said that an absence for any period in school counts as an absence for the whole day. So when I had to pick up the boy from the nurse’s office at 3:00 they counted him absent for the whole day. That’s not how it wasn’t my day, when I went to school they took attendance at 10:00 and didn’t give a shit past that