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Last year, in 2022-23, 26.1% of Port Chester students in grades 1-8 and 31.4% of high school students were chronically absent. "We have taken many steps, including but not limited to a variety of ...
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Truancy is any intentional, unjustified, unauthorized, or illegal absence from compulsory education. It is a deliberate absence by a student's own free will and usually does not refer to legitimate excused absences, such as ones related to medical conditions. Truancy is usually explicitly defined in the school's handbook of policies and procedures.
On Monday: 20 of the school's 157 kindergarteners were absent, compared with five on Thursday, Aug. 22. 20 of the school's 135 first graders were absent, compared with five on Aug. 22.
The study estimates that over an 8-month period from 1 January to 1 September 2020, assuming school closures from 16 March to 1 September 2020 (and taking into account the summer vacation that would have still normally taken place during that time), that these kindergarten children would have gained 31% less literacy ability on average than if ...
Absenteeism is a habitual pattern of absence from a duty or obligation without good reason. Generally, absenteeism refers to unplanned absences. [1] Absenteeism has been viewed as an indicator of poor individual performance, as well as a breach of an implicit contract between employee and employer.
One of the children then had unexcused absences from East Jay Elementary School on Nov. 15 and 16. That student as of Nov. 14 had 28 unexcused absences this school year, which began on Aug. 10.
Grade retention or grade repetition is the process of a student repeating a grade after failing the previous year.. In the United States of America, grade retention can be used in kindergarten through to third grade; however, students in high school are usually only retained in the specific failed subject.