Atlanta Public Schools is closing the gap on chronic absenteeism by digging in to find what’s going on in families lives.
District Social Work Coordinator Alicia Curvey says, “they don’t have to be totally transparent, but trust us enough to share if there is a concern that we can assist with. That’s been huge.”
Kiley Davis is a working mom and says her husband leaves for his job much earlier, so she was handling all the morning preparation for her fifth grader’s school day like what to wear or what to eat for breakfast. Constant rushing led to Sidney forgetting her journal one day, or her P. E. clothes another day. A sharp pivot came when she found out that her daughter’s emotional health and her schoolwork were suffering…