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Show You and Your Child ' ; Success iii School I'll admit it Teachers are jealous j people. They're jealous of every minute of time they have with your children, j With the current outbreak of in- fluenza B in Utah, many students are missing classes because of coughing, sneezing, stuffy noses, fever, chills, and all the other symptoms. symp-toms. They should be home for obvious reasons. ,., But there are other kinds of absences ab-sences that concern teachers very much. Scheduling hair appointments appoint-ments or dental appointments during dur-ing school time means loss of learning learn-ing opportunities. Mathematics, for instance, is usually a progressive chain of learning learn-ing experiences.. The loss of a school day or two can leave a student stu-dent bewildered because the class is using concepts that were taught the days he was away.' When a child is habitually absent, who is the loser? . Is it the teacher who must try to fit into a full schedule the time.. to help the student catch up? - Is it the parent who may not see the impact of lost learning until it's too late to do much about it? Or is it the student? If a child misses Tuesday's lesson, les-son, Wednesday's lesson isn't going go-ing to make as much sense. If a child misses a week, he or she will need to spend time catching up. And if a child habitually misses days or weeks, will it even be possible pos-sible to catch up? A recent national study in 1,000 high schools showed that of students stu-dents who said they cut classes frequently fre-quently as sophomores, mare than half dropped out within the next two years. One of the most important lessons les-sons a student can learn in school is . how important it is to be there as much as possible. . |