Anyone finding it hard to teach with kids missing 2 to 3 days a week sometimes? I have headaches trying to keep track of absences and due dates of assignments and tests. Who gets extra time per IEPs and 504s added in to when they are absent. Example- i had a three day IN class project to complete. Kid missed all three days and returns on the due date..3 day day extension plus had the weekend to complete. Turns in 2 days late (pictures of assignment by email) all WRONG. Says he didn't understand.

Then the admin act like it's somehow our fault.

It wasn't a problem when I was in school. Medical waivers, summer school or see you next year, when kids exceeded attendance limits.

3 grades a week, all grades for the most part are 10 pts, give 5 assignments, grade all 5 keep the highest 3 so that students absences might not affect you too badly

I DON’T TAKE LATE ASSIGNMENTS unless students have an excused absence.

Every day this past week I have had 4-5 absent in each class. I realize that it’s “sick season,” but they aren’t all out due to illness. I have one student who has been absent more than he’s been at school. It’s so difficult to get them caught up when they’re out so much.

No child left behind turned into no child can fail. Tennessee dealt with this by lowering passing to 60 🤣 Funny, not funny.

When I first started with my district almost 20 years ago if a student missed 5 days or more per semester, they failed the class. Now I have a student who has missed 49 days so far this year and it is my job to call home to find out what is wrong with each absence. Mom is very , well not exactly rude, but on the line. He still keeps missing. He is failing 3 out of 5 classes, but I feel should fail all

Tell administration kids must be there for lecture and assignment. You won’t always have time to bring each student up with the rest of the class. My suggestion is pray about it to our Heavenly Father. This is from a retired band director who is still involved in music and a disciple of Christ.

I have been "recognized" as having a "Take No Prisoners" teaching style.

It is very simple. The lessons are presented in class. The video walkthrough, of whatever it is that we did, is made available after the last class completes the lesson. It is their responsibility to get the work done.

That said, the video lesson does not cover a lot of what I go over. I teach personal finance. I have an MBA and have been a licensed financial planner. Trust me, I can expand on the material. That is not in the video; I need to see the "client" to gauge pacing and material. That is very hard to do in a video, so I don't try.

I understand the challenge. I have a student that I literally saw on the first day and haven't seen since. I have been told that he comes to school for homeroom roll call every ten days, after ten days he becomes truant. Guess what? Yes, he has a zero in my class. It isn't hard to figure out.

I had a funny description of my teaching persona from some of my students when I was talking to them at a church activity (so, yes, that is a very biased sample group). A girl, who does great in my class. . . truthfully, all of the kids I was talking to were doing great in my class, not in all classes mind you, but in my class. . . She said that I "bark a lot, but am really nice and always forgive" (in truth, I just don't remember one-off things). Then one of the boys commented "yea, but every once in a while you'll rip someone's head off. . . hey, we get it, it's to maintain the cred."

. . . In truth, I don't actually rip heads off. The only blood in my classroom is mine, and that's because I'm clumsy (not really, but the underlying medical condition is too boring to go over). However, it was an interesting commentary. I had tried to just get some past students for the bit of feedback and some current students saw me talking to kids they knew and wandered over. In all, it was a very interesting "feedback" session and it managed to remain "positive."

I realize this was a bit of "thread creep;" but really, don't put up with it. Trust me, the kids won't respect you if you do. At that point, it becomes a lesser class for everyone.

I use a learning management system now so almost all of my resources are accessible online. I assume that the kids will make up the items they missed, and contact me if they need help. It has been transformational for me.

To save my own sanity, late work is not a hill on which I’m willing to die.
I accept late work with a deduction. If they were absent, no deduction. Extended time is unlimited during the term - I have a collab teacher, so she works with the kids to complete their assignments. We have a daily NEST time during which I can pull kids to work on assignments. If they still don’t finish and have 0’s that cause them to fail, I have ample evidence that they’ve had every opportunity to complete the work. This cuts down on parent and admin complaints. The bottom line is that I’d rather have the kids do the work to develop their skills that’s cut them off because it’s late.

This is an epidemic in my school and kids are failing due to it. It wasn't like this 14 years ago! It's the sad state of our society.

I have a student with 40 absences to date. Very hard to get learning done when there are excessive absences and then we teachers are still expected to show student growth as if the student attended school all the time. So many factors, but I wish my district was more helpful

….getting tired of all of this!

I have students out for weeks, the one out since October and another November. Whenever I call or text, no one answers, yet I'll be blamed when the grades and scores are not met. When do we hold the kids (and parents) accountable?

Sounds like possibly get a Chromebook for student(s) ( who cannot afford) and depending upon situation have parent supervise this computer at home and engage parent and possible your hospital home bound teaching staff to give partial assistance to chronically absent students…
And proactively have absent students who are able to complete some kind of similar assignment … possibly google classroom … bring in your guidance counselor and see what may work and some limits and then have full time 5 days stay home if student. Annoy get in to your class … this all needs approvals and checking policies, IEO’s etc …

Well this is not classroom teachers decision … the student has and family have created a situation needing a much closer and deeper look at the root problem … totally failing will cause some kind of reaction but possibly a continuation of the problem taking the grade over … possibly have counselor and Admin … Principal preferred ( who also wants to help get to the root problem) in on an in person meeting with parent… possible authorized home visit with appropriate approved personnel only … not state child protective services( not yet anyway). … just possibly a visit of school and or district personnel ( preferably 2 people these days) and this visit and or meeting at school could lead to the student being appropriately tested to see what is happening… be sure you have empathetic members on your team instead of just punisher/ punitive types who want to throw the student away

Truth! I’m seeing many missing assignments due to absences and students not motivated to make up the work! I remember in the 1980s in our district, a high school student automatically would be in failing status for a course at 11 absences and required to appeal their grades by getting a signature from each teacher to say they could potentially still pass the course. Now, students seem to think they should be passing even with multiple missing assignments and/or tests!

Our students are supposed to lose credit no matter what the grade if attendance is not 90%. But they are able to do credit recovery and our courts here in my district are no great about it.

Add on our IS teachers quite ieps that students can retake a test or quiz they earn a F on once. It is a book keeping nightmare

Kids with 7 unexcused absences a semester are on non credit status. Even if they pass, they don’t earn credit for the class. Doesn’t your state/district have a truancy policy?

At my school if the students had more than 20 absences the superintendent reports to their home. There could also be penalties for the parent