In the post-COVID world of chronic absenteeism, schools have relaxed their health policies in an effort to boost attendance. But parents and teachers worry that sending kids to school with mild illnesses puts others at risk.
The kid was ill, clearly. Angela, a Brooklyn private-school teacher, dutifully sent her sick student to the school nurse, who indeed deemed the elementary-schooler unwell enough to be sent home. But the parents didn’t answer, and so the nurse sent the kid right back to Angela, who asked to use a pseudonym. “As soon as the child came back to class —
It’s an issue that’s been stumping researchers and attendance advocates alike, said Liz Cohen, policy director at Georgetown University’s Future Ed, which maintains an online tracking system showing rates of chronic absenteeism since the 2018–19 school year. “I don’t think there’s one shift that’s going to rapidly change the whole thing,” she said, though that hasn’t stopped states from trying.
In New York City, by comparison, chronic absenteeism hit 40 percent in the 2021–22 school year and only improved to 36 percent in 2022–23. And while the attendance numbers here are a little worse than in California, the guidance around sick days for students is a little more vague., kids can be at school as long as they’ve been fever-free for 24 hours.
He sounds a little sheepish as he says it, but, officially speaking, it’s not the wrong call. A cough, as long as it isn’t accompanied by a fever, isn’t reason enough to keep a child home from school, according to the city’s sick-day guidance. It’s a notion attendance advocates tend to agree with. “Certainly we’re not advocating for kids to go to school to get everyone else infected,” said Hedy Chang, executive director of education advocacy nonprofit Attendance Works.
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