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Ms. Yolanda Speights
Supervisor of Pupil Personnel Services
Carver Educational Services Center
Room 211
301-279-3225
Attending school is a normal and
important part of the growing up process. When a student
is repeatedly absent without an obvious reason, it is
a warning of serious difficulties. Research data shows
that students who become truant and eventually drop
out of school put themselves at a long-term disadvantage
for becoming productive citizens.
Parents bear primary responsibility
for ensuring that their child regularly attends school.
It is the school's role to monitor student attendance
and provide meaningful educational incentives that promote
good attendance. Many factors can impact school attendance.
If school attendance is an issue for your child, please
contact your child's teacher or school counselor for
assistance. Another resource is the pupil personnel
worker assigned to your child's school. Contact your
child's school for the name and contact information
for your pupil personnel worker. (Please make the underlined
a link to the Pupil Personnel Services page in the left
nav bar.)
Because truancy is a community issue,
Montgomery County has an interagency workgroup to address
truancy and dropout prevention. The following agencies
are members of this workgroup:
Montgomery County Public Schools
Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services-Child
Welfare Services and Health Services
Maryland Department of Juvenile Services
Montgomery County, Maryland State's Attorney's Office
Montgomery County Department of Police, Family Services
Division
Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission
Each agency has agreed to participate
in an overall plan to respond to the habitually truant
student. This plan includes school-based and Department
of Student Services interventions, a referral process
for cases resistant to intervention, an interagency
Truancy Review Board, and a system for referral to court.
The plan applies to all students between five and sixteen
years of age. Legal action applies to each person who
has legal custody or care and control of a child who
is 5 years of age or older and under 16.
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