For the 2020-2021 school year, about 67 percent of Camden's students were chronically absent. The district hopes to improve attendance with a new campaign.
will now be starting the school day with a new pledge: to attend school regularly.
McCombs launched the district-wide attendance campaign at a pep rally Wednesday at the H.B. Wilson Family School with hundreds of screaming students packed in the auditorium. She asked students, teachers and parents to support the “Attend today, Achieve tomorrow” campaign. Samya Pagan, 13, an eighth-grader at H.B. Wilson, said she plans to have perfect attendance. She said she missed a few days last year, mainly because she was exposed to others who tested positive for COVID-19.
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