You probably played hooky once or twice as a kid to savor that sweet feeling of sleeping in and watching daytime television. So when you hear about students who are chronically absent—missing 18 school days or more a year—you might imagine hundreds of students stubbornly refusing to get out of bed.
Allyson Vukovich, community partnership coordinator at Des Moines Public Schools, talked with United Way to dispel that picture.
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