The Chronic Absenteeism Crisis Is More Complicated Than We Think

A teacher’s perspective on the attendance crisis from the frontlines

Photo by Feliphe Schiarolli on Unsplash

Two years ago, an electrician came to my apartment to fix a light in my house. We chatted and I told him I was a special education teacher, in one of our local city schools. He had actually gone to high school at a school that wasn’t too far…