CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – Teachers serve as the core of our education system and the future of student development, but recent trends show some teachers are not showing up physically in the classroom.
Nationwide, 28 percent of teachers missed 10 or more school days from 2015 to 2016, but based on numbers obtained from the last school year, every Lowcountry school district is above the national average in its number of “chronically absent” teachers.
The U.S. Department of Education defines a teacher as “chronically absent” if they miss more than 10 days of school in a year…