I personally do not think that the measurement of days attended is really a good indication of educational performance. I say that having achieved, in my fourth year of university, a personal best year - I attended fully two thirds of all my classes. So I'm not really in favour of the opinion expressed in this story (though I leave room for the possibility that the author is writing in the ironic voice), particularly since the fultility of an attendance policy is actually pointed out in the article: "what's even more amazing than the absenteeism that prompted local attendance policy upgrades is that part-time pupils have until now been able to squeak by unscathed: They actually pass their exams and graduate. CRLFDoes anybody besides me see the need for a step beyond attendance enforcement? Like teaching in such a way that it would be impossible for a chronically absent student to squeak by?"
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