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Birmingham had a chronic absentee rate of 29% prior to this program which is defined as missing at least 10% of school days. They brought it down to 14%. Missin
by wildzzz 8mo ago
Birmingham had a chronic absentee rate of 29% prior to this program which is defined as missing at least 10% of school days. They brought it down to 14%. Missing class is a major detriment to learning and causes kids to fall behind faster than they can keep up. Doing nothing to combat chronic absenteeism is not really the solution to preventing the spread of childhood diseases.
- TimorousBestie 8mo ago> Doing nothing to combat chronic absenteeism Not something I was advocating, thanks.
- j_w 8mo ago"I'm against the solution which has been shown to work for [unsubstantiated reason]." Without providing any other proven-to-work solutions is basically advocating for the problem.
- TimorousBestie 8mo agoIt’s not the solution, it’s one intervention among others in a focus program. They had at least one other intervention going on at the same time (essentially, decriminalizing truancy—a “proven-to-work” solution by your standards, and one I do support), and probably more.