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Five-year-olds can be chronically absent or truant, too

States Newsroom · October 12, 2026

Chronic absenteeism has become a much-publicized national crisis since the pandemic. The face of it is teenagers who are rebellious, bored by school (often for good reason), and beyond parent control. But we overlook at great cost the chronic absenteeism of much younger students. It begins with absent kindergartners…

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Five-year-olds can be chronically absent or truant, too

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