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RBWells@lemmy.world 9 months ago
When my kid got the Covid-19 recently, they stayed home from school, I worked from home, the other family members just masked at work/school or work in very depopulated office so went in. None of us got sick or got anyone else sick. But now kid has to somehow make up a week of school because even though for 3 of the school days they were well enough to do the work, the school doesn’t have any zoom feed or allowance for sick days.
Skyrmir@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Schools are far too based on attendance, and often legally can only count kids with a butt in their seat at school. Even into college, progress is based more on appearance than ability.
It leads to crappy teaching, and draconian absence policies.
To be fair, forcing kids into school drastically cuts down on child abuse. So there is a logic behind it, just taken a bit too far.