Opinion: Truancy problem starts long before students miss the first bell
One of the first things kids learn in school is that there are rules — lots of them.
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One of the first things kids learn in school is that there are rules — lots of them.
“We have a whole set of kids who are missing. We can't explain where all the kids have gone, even a couple years after the pandemic,” one expert says.
When Krissy Johnson began studying Washington student attendance six years ago, she noticed a concerning pattern: Districts would often drop kids from their rolls after 20 missed days in a