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Originally Posted by kazbates
That was one of my biggest pet peeves as a teacher and is still one as a parent. Now, Ryleigh's school district has started a new Perfect Attendance policy to encourage students not to miss any school time. They've even changed the attendance policy to mark against kids who leave school early, even if they come back.  With everything in the media about NOT sending kids to school sick, you would think that our Superintendent would have held off on starting something like this until next year. I mean, really, these people are suppossed to be highly educated and it seems like they have absolutely no common sense.  |
And the kids are encouraged to use peer pressure in order to have perfect attendance for the whole class for the whole year. Stupid. It's just a number that they use to justify funding based on contact hours, but it doesn't take into account that kids are actually living breathing humans, it reduces them to 7hrs x 5day =35hrs/week x 20 kids = 700 contact hrs/week/classroom. There is nowhere in that equation to allow for the flu.