It has been recognized that not all students are the same, some excel in the Three Rs while others are more suitable to carpentry, small engine and auto repair, agricultural sciences.

I would think courses like these might convince students to return to complete their education.

Sometimes anxiety, sometimes just "meh."

Then there are the "chronically absent" because of school activities. Three days next week for TSA. One day last week for orchestra. And while TSA may be a once-per-year thing, there are college visits, the flu, emergencies. Absences that count in a bad way may be only 8-9 per semester, but add in all the other absences and they're out 20, 25 days a semester.

And they do well. They stop in before leaving campus for their assignments. They work in the other city or on the bus. Their parents can help--mostly college educated. They spend time after school catching up, being tutored, getting help from friends. And they are motivated and trust that they can do the work.

Then there are the kids on the other side of the academic spectrum. Sometimes they're in school just for athletics--B students during football season, F- students in the spring. Or because their mother insists they show up. Or they get fed. Or get to hang with their "real" family, other kids just like them that tell them how great *they* are and how bad their parents, teachers, and the "others" are. They struggle, for the most part, to begin with. Toss in 15-20 absences per semester and the zeroes in the gradebook pile up. They don't have the resources--personal, familiar, social--to make up the work.

Most are in the middle. B students become C students.

during the Pandemic? Do any of them have continuing issues with school attendance?