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Richard Skolnik
May 3, 2023, 4:16:24 PM5/3/23
to Ellen Ben-Naim, Antonio Jaurigue, Christine Bernstien, Melanie Colgan, s.w...@laschools.net, Public....@laschools.net, Richard Skolnik
Dear School Board Members,
Please see below the link to an article on the LAPS approach to attendance that was just published as a follow-up to my earlier article on the same topic.
The School Board has a responsibility to ensure that LAPS policies "do no harm" to the health and well-being of our children.
Unfortunately, however, the present LAPS approach to attendance is very likely to be doing more harm than good.
I hope, therefore, that the School Board will do its homework on attendance incentives, come to grips with the entirely predictable "unintended consequences" of the present approach, and fulfill its responsibilities for acting in the face of perverse policies.
If the School Board had done its homework on incentives earlier, it would, at least, have asked the LAPS the questions that I raise in the second to the last paragraph of the article above. Instead, I understand that at a recent meeting a Board member praised the Chamisa approach to attendance.
You might also canvas the community about the extent to which:
*students are going to school sick
*students are being bullied for missing school and hurting their class' chance to win an attendance award
*students are being shamed publicly by staff or teachers for missing school
The present LAPS approach to attendance is an important matter on which I hope you will now act with urgency.
Thank you for your attention to this matter,
Richard Skolnik
On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 6:22 PM Richard Skolnik <reston....@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear School Board:As you know, absenteeism is a serious issue in our schools this year.Please see the op-ed piece below, the aim of which is to encourage and help LAPS to take an evidence-based approach to trying to address this matter.Regards,
Richard Skolnik
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