Two-Thirds of Detroit Students 'Chronically Absent'

[jmarie]

I wonder what the break down is per grade. I would imagine that high schools are responsible for most of that.

You would be quite surprised. I quit teaching after a decade this spring. While I never taught in Detroit, I did teach in Flint for a brief period. I taught elementary and I've had kids miss 40, 50, 60 days in a year. I spent half of my career in a different state and there they retained anyone missing over 20 days without proper medical documentation, although my principal waived it sometimes. I wish they would do that here. At my last school, about 1/3 of my students had truancy cases filed.
And there are kids of all ages, including kindergarten, that don't care and make classrooms very difficult to manage.