Why do schools blame teachers for student absenteeism?
Administrators respond to chronic student absenteeism with canned jargon, PLC busywork, and emails blaming teachers rather than offering solutions. Teachers dealing with growing behavioral issues and failing students are left completely unsupported and stressed.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Pretending that attendance is up
- 2Brainstorming solutions in PLCs to boost attendance
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Today we received an email blaming mostly teachers for chronic absenteeism.”source ↗
“Now, too, we're struggling with the growing number of students failing and behavioral issues; we're constantly calling parents, so we are simply already stressed enough.”source ↗
“hey, what do we do about kids who aren’t showing up. And she gave a canned answer.”source ↗
“I ask the same question and I get a canned answer. The normal jargon; probably featured new hits like: “productive struggle”.”source ↗
“Also how is this the job of a PLC????? Jfc”source ↗
Where this came up
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