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Board divided over 93% attendance party: one trustee calls rule "punitive," others credit incentives with higher attendance
Summary
Board members debated a Kalmiopsis end-of-year party that requires 93% attendance: one member said excluding students who lack control over attendance is punitive, while district staff and other trustees said rewards helped raise regular-attender rates from the low 50s to about 70 percent.
Board members at the Brookings-Harbor SD 17C meeting debated whether a school's plan to invite only students with 93% attendance to an end-of-year party was fair or effective.
A board member objected that the threshold "seems very punitive to kids who have no control over whether they go to school…
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