caradana
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To me, honestly, this all comes down to two factorsNot clear to me: did the school not contact parent until end of day that Audri did not attend? If not, why not?
(1) how much the school district has committed to technology (usually PowerSchool, sometimes other ones) and to database management (whatever tech they’re using needs to be in a stack that can automate outbound email/text and record that activity in CRM) and
(2) the quality of the secretary/admin who has been tasked with attendance. Some of these women, and yes, I said women, are organizational rock stars who have the state of affairs determined by 8:30 AM and are making or electronically prompting outbound calls by 9 … these women, 100 years ago, were called (MOO) “nuns” (I hope this gets a smile from the Catholic-school familiar on this thread: if we were missing, they were calling our mothers before we were even out of the parking lots). Some of these women are not all that great at it, have not pushed for the tech integration, are waiting for paper slips to make their way to some office, don’t see themselves as responsible for outbound calls, … those are the districts where it’s unclear whether an 11yo is AWOL past 3 PM.
Purely MOO but I hope some here are nodding.