Some days are harder than others
Join Jill, Melissa, Tracy and Christina to talk about the tools you need to support your child's education in the face of truancy issues caused by mental health challenges. Well give you some tips on how to work with your school to get them to recognize your child's absences and, if that fails, how to protect yourself from unwarranted truancy charges. We're all doing the best we can to help our children thrive and sometimes we need to remind systems that they should be helping as well.
This Is Not What I Was Expecting · Melissa, Tracy, Jill
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Show Notes
This week we really rely on the excellent information from the PA Education Law Center (ELC) and their truancy resources: https://www.elc-pa.org/truancy/
Check out the webinar the ELC did for us on the topic of Truancy. Attorney Wakelin did an excellent job of breaking down each important section of the law and clearly spelling out how schools should be working with Pennsylvania parents to help their children attend rather than punish them for missing. https://youtu.be/lzT5OVYS9aY
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