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Show a formula based partly on attendance. It's this simple: If a student doesn't come to school one day, the district, gets "docked" a certain amount of money. There's a certain psy-, chology involved here. The state's attendance requirement require-ment serves to keep school pressure on students who have a tendency toward "sluffing." So when a student needlessly need-lessly fails to attend school, all those resources are going go-ing to waste. They're being wasted just as surely as the natural gas or electricity is wasted in carelessly leaving the oven burners going. Don't get me wrong. There definitely are times when students should be absent from school, such as for sickness or other serious problems. But sluffing costs money and resources and you and I pay for it just as surely as we pay our utility bills. SchooLrrv and fV) Home Dr. Daryl J. McCarty Executive Secretary Utah Education Association As a person who watches carefully the way you spend your dollars, you probably wouldn't knowingly leave the oven burning all night long for no particularly good reason. rea-son. That's wasteful. In the following paragraphs par-agraphs I'll try to convince you that taking your child out of school without an especially es-pecially good reason can be wasteful in the same kind of way. The s tate of Utah pays most of the cost of your child's education in the public pub-lic schools. The money goes to your school according to |