The article, “The Long-Term Consequences of Missing School” written by Mikhail
Zinshteyn begins with the stereotypical phrase for teenagers, “too cool for school” when he talks about the idealized student who often skips or misses class because he’s “too cool”. Zinshteyn then opens up with the reality of statistics that stated just by missing two days in a month can set back their academic potential. He mentions a source of data by the Attendance Works Organization that provides research on multiple school scenarios such as early education, elementary, middle school, and even high school. Within each subject, there are various reports from several different sources that contain factual information that may be helpful when researching the topic …show more content…
Such as Cleveland and Detroit, their chronic absenteeism ranges from 50%-60% of their students. An associate 's dean of inclusion and an education professor at UCLA said that, “chronic absenteeism is typically one of the most ardent signs that something serious may be happening with a student and his or her family.” and also mentioned that students that are experiencing difficult or life changing events could be the reason to why students are missing many days of school at once. As well as there has been a fact found by the U.S. News and World Report that there are several wealthy suburban districts that have received more federal aid for low-income students than in a smaller underprivileged district. The research and facts goes on about advocating more social workers and psychologists, teaming up with after school providers and community organizations, and how important it is to file for chronic absences more often than once a …show more content…
I believe that missing school leads to lost potential at an academic level. Missing school days at an elementary level could result in becoming below average in reading comprehension. As well as a higher risk for high school students to drop out. Collaborating with local charities and organizations to address the issue of absenteeism is very proactive and could become more helpful. Students who are struggling could join afterschool programs to get tutoring and additional help that would improve their academic studies. Another proactive action that was taken was when school and city leaders in Michigan released and advocacy training campaign for educators that drastically dropped the rate of absenteeism by a quarter with student test scores increasing. In order to keep track of how leaders and organizations can improve to prevent chronic absenteeism, data needs to be filed and updated more often than once a year. It would be more efficient and could address how to prevent this issue quicker. An Attendance Works co-author, Chang, also said that we should not only be filing data for chronic absentee students because there are some students who are on the brink of becoming a chronic absentee student but fall a little short of the requirements. Such as missing 10 days of school in the year, it does not fall in the category of chronic absenteeism but is still a large amount of school days missed.
Zinshteyn begins with the stereotypical phrase for teenagers, “too cool for school” when he talks about the idealized student who often skips or misses class because he’s “too cool”. Zinshteyn then opens up with the reality of statistics that stated just by missing two days in a month can set back their academic potential. He mentions a source of data by the Attendance Works Organization that provides research on multiple school scenarios such as early education, elementary, middle school, and even high school. Within each subject, there are various reports from several different sources that contain factual information that may be helpful when researching the topic …show more content…
Such as Cleveland and Detroit, their chronic absenteeism ranges from 50%-60% of their students. An associate 's dean of inclusion and an education professor at UCLA said that, “chronic absenteeism is typically one of the most ardent signs that something serious may be happening with a student and his or her family.” and also mentioned that students that are experiencing difficult or life changing events could be the reason to why students are missing many days of school at once. As well as there has been a fact found by the U.S. News and World Report that there are several wealthy suburban districts that have received more federal aid for low-income students than in a smaller underprivileged district. The research and facts goes on about advocating more social workers and psychologists, teaming up with after school providers and community organizations, and how important it is to file for chronic absences more often than once a …show more content…
I believe that missing school leads to lost potential at an academic level. Missing school days at an elementary level could result in becoming below average in reading comprehension. As well as a higher risk for high school students to drop out. Collaborating with local charities and organizations to address the issue of absenteeism is very proactive and could become more helpful. Students who are struggling could join afterschool programs to get tutoring and additional help that would improve their academic studies. Another proactive action that was taken was when school and city leaders in Michigan released and advocacy training campaign for educators that drastically dropped the rate of absenteeism by a quarter with student test scores increasing. In order to keep track of how leaders and organizations can improve to prevent chronic absenteeism, data needs to be filed and updated more often than once a year. It would be more efficient and could address how to prevent this issue quicker. An Attendance Works co-author, Chang, also said that we should not only be filing data for chronic absentee students because there are some students who are on the brink of becoming a chronic absentee student but fall a little short of the requirements. Such as missing 10 days of school in the year, it does not fall in the category of chronic absenteeism but is still a large amount of school days missed.