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Committee declines immediate change to attendance policy; motion to remove child-performer exception fails for lack of second
Summary
After discussion, the committee left attendance limits unchanged, debated whether a 3-consecutive-day rule effectively creates a 9-day semester limit, and a motion to erase the child-performers 20-day exception received no second and did not pass; a teacher urged stronger attendance standards citing impacts on evaluations.
The Caddo Parish School Board policy review committee reviewed absentee rules and heard a motion to remove a special child-performers exception from the district's attendance policy (JBD). Committee members ultimately left the attendance policy unchanged at the committee level and the motion to erase the child-performers clause failed to proceed after receiving no second at the committee meeting.
Committee members clarified that a rule based on "3 consecutive days" incidents could functionally amount to a…
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