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Arizona could become latest state to ban attendance-related suspensions (www.tucsonsentinel.com)

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  Arizona lawmaker Rep. Laura Terech is again trying to bar schools from using out-of-school suspensions to punish students who miss class, arguing the strategy is not only ineffective but harmful, and disproportionately affects Black, Latino and Indigenous students.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I always thought that is was weird to punish missing school by not letting you come to school. It also made it better to miss a whole class if you were late few times because being late for class and missing class was different tracks for punishments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It also wasn't really applied equally. I would know, I had a lot of attendance issues in my junior and senior year when I was living on my own.

Turns out that if you had a gifted kid that suddenly has to work to live, they stopped looking gifted, and start missing a lot of school. I think they made some exceptions for me simply because if they didn't it would be a very bad look on the district.

I think in my case the factor there was I would roll in on a standardized testing day, get 100% on every single aspect of the standardized tests. And walk out and go back to work.

But yeah, if I was Black or Latino I don't think I would have gotten that same consideration - gifted or otherwise.