A few weeks before winter break began, I sent an email to each of my children’s teachers letting them know that my family was headed for an epic trip to Antarctica. It would be a highly educational ...
For years, hitting 100% attendance was something schoolchildren were told to aspire to, with parents and teachers keeping close tabs on sick days. But post-Covid, there seems to have been a shift in ...
Should kids be able to skip the last day — or the entire last week — of school? “I let them decide if they want to go to school on those last days,” Patricia Horton, a mother in Florida, tells ...
Florida mom Patricia Horton poses in a photo with her two kids, aged 12 and 7, on Instagram. Screengrab from Patricia Horton's Instagram page A mother in Florida is sparking quite the debate on TikTok ...
Kids who attend school regularly have better academic outcomes, full stop. A 2026 study by the Annenberg Institute at Brown University found that students with high absenteeism rates were ...