This has been the longest week of the year.
I wish I would have thought of this for our handbook committee meeting when we discussed the issue of attendance.
The 24 students in my first block Science Fiction class have missed a combined 106 days. One alone has missed 22 and another has missed 11.
Now this doesn’t take into account activities, unexcused absences, and excused absences. But as you can see plainly there is no real need for mandatory attendance.
Average that out and each student has missed almost one full week (roughly 4.5 days a week). Obviously, there is no need for mandatory attendance.
Of the 106 absences, 71 were excused or activities. So according to school policy, those students will have a total of 142 days to make up their work. Too bad there are only approximately 45 days in a quarter.
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No wonder employers of young adults are constantly complaining about their attendance! I wouldn't even let Ashley miss phy ed on Tuesday morning when she said she didn't sleep well and wanted to go an hour late (saying it was just "phy ed" she would miss). It wasn't the fact that it was "just phy ed", it was the fact that it's school and you go whether you feel like it or not! I guess that's why our kids have been accused of having "the strictest" parents in their classes! (They didn't think it was funny when we told them we took that as a compliment). It's called tough love and it's too bad more parents out there don't make school attendance a priority for their kids. It's even worse when the school doesn't make school attendance a priority. School attendance/performance equals job attendance/performance.
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