August 20, 2008
Charter Schools Adopt New Truancy Rules
D.C. Wire reported late yesterday that the D.C. Public Charter School Board has passed new attendance and truancy policies in the wake of the killings of the daughters of Banita Jacks. The decomposing bodies of the four girls were found dead in their Southeast home after having been absent from school for months. Charter schools will now be required to report attendance statistics on a quarterly basis, and will mark attendance at a threshold rate of 85 percent, and truancy at less than 20 percent.




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So if your considered attending if you show up 85% of the time or above, and you are truant of you show up 20% of the time or less, what do you call the attendance between the 20% and 85%?
Shouldnt the midrange (20%-85%) be truant and anything less than 20% child abuse and/or juvenile delinquency?