Majority of members support committee creating policies for students to attend first day
ALBANY, GA. -- At Monday's Kiwanis Club meeting, Dougherty County School Board Chairman David Maschke discussed the county school board’s ad hoc committee that is working on student attendance on the first day of class. The committee is working to develop new policies that gets students to class on the first day of school and not weeks later.
The committee has 60 days to work with administrators and look at current attendance policies. The majority of the Kiwanis Club members support the committee’s initiative.
"What David and the school board are trying to do is a positive that’s going to put the parents where they need to be,” says Kiwanis Club member Mike Bertram.
Right now, some students can get away with showing up for their first day after Labor Day.
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