Saturday, February 18, 2012
In Our Schools - "Absenteeism rife at Boston high schools"
This is disheartening, to say the least...
James Vaznis recently had this story at Boston.com:
"More than a third of the students in Boston public high schools were chronically absent last year, even as the city undertook additional efforts to lure students to school, according to a Globe analysis.
At East Boston High School, half of the students missed at least 19 days, more than 10 percent of the school year. The rates of chronic absenteeism were even higher at Brighton High, Charlestown High, and Dorchester Academy. Across the city, 7,400 high school students were chronically absent."
