High school cuts chronic absence with lunch time recess
Florentin Jean Baptiste at Medford High benefited from a principal’s novel plan allowing lunch time sports to count as attendance if students attend all classes. Nationwide data show about 12 million students chronically absent in 2022 23, with rates rising post pandemic yet gradually easing in many states.
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