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By Jorge
In the time that I have been in high school, I have seen how chronic absenteeism has affected me and those around me. Groups of students who don’t go to school or skip class are making things worse for everyone else. We all suffer the negative consequences, like how most of the bathrooms at my school are locked all the time. It’s hard to go around the whole school to find the one bathroom that isn’t locked.
Chronic absenteeism harms students and it also harms schools. When students are absent, schools lose funding, up to thousands of dollars per day.
That lack of funding then harms students in other ways. At my school I saw a bathroom where the stalls were completely broken down, the stalls were dented in and it took way too long for the school to fix it multiple months. Teachers at my school have told me they pay for most school supplies out of their pockets. If our school got more funding, maybe teachers wouldn’t have to spend so much of their own money. Maybe we could even get better food, which isn’t good and has made me sick. If students don’t have good food and are getting sick from it, how can they be expected to arrive at school and focus on the work they have to do? The lack of funding from chronic absences just creates more problems for everyone at school.