To curb chronic absence, schools treat parents as partners
When her son started missing school frequently as a fourth-grader, the school wasn’t too adamant about it and neither was Laurie Serrano. If he missed the bus he stayed home, though she could have walked him.
“I didn’t have any education on the fact that that was keeping him behind,” she says.
Now schools are finding that one way to curb chronic absenteeism is rather simple: Communicate better with families.
New research shows that parents of high-absence students routinely underestimate the number of days their children
