Have you noticed a drop in attendance this year, compared to previous years?
The article acknowledges that one reason students are absent is due to influenza and COVID throughout the community. I also wonder if some of it may be explained by parents pulling students out of school to go on overseas hollidays that were postponed during the COVID lockdowns.
Do you think the drop in attendance is just temporary, or is indicative of something deeper and longer lasting?
I think in Australia too then, post-covid, students may have become a bit more unruly, and classroom routines and expectations need to be re-taught and reestablished. The unruliness generally doesn’t generally rise to the level of safety concerns, although there was a case recently where a casual teacher was provoked and got into a physical altercation with a student that was filmed and widely distributed on the internet, and criminal charges were brought against that teacher. Gun violence not a big a concern in Australia due to much stricter gun laws than in the US – is this much of a concern over there?
according to the news yea. a teacher getting pepper sprayed for taking a student’s smartphone, plus the school shootings. it ain’t worth it over there.