re: 13,000 students in East Baton Rouge Parish schools are chronically absent

Safer to stay home

So one of every two?

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Of course they do. Part of their rent is used to pay property taxes owed by the owner of the home or apartment building.

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I agree that renters pay property tax via rent.

But what if the rent is paid via section 8?

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I remember as a kid having the runs and my mother was still dragging my arse to school.

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The only thing that would keep us home was if we had fever. If you said you felt bad, she would take your temp... No temp.. No stay home.

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Stop letting them get all the free passes flunk them out of highschool and make the GED essentially free and allow them to grow up faster.

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The GED is free. They call it a HiSet these days, but they can attend that program at BRCC for free and get their GED. I think there's a small fee just for the exam itself at the end, but it isn't much.

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Across Chicago Public Schools, nearly 25,000 high school students — or a quarter of all high schoolers — missed at least 35 days last year, according to CPS data obtained by WBEZ

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That’s double the number of students who missed that much school in 2019 — and twice the number of days the state deems troublesome enough to flag a student as chronically absent.

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Its got bad everywhere post Covid

School attendance is racist