Cutting class in high school shouldn't be a reason to lose marks | Opinion |
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Cutting class in high school shouldn't be a reason to lose marks | Opinion
Sophia Laporte: Ontario's new legislation to make attendance a big part of a student's final grade doesn't solve the real problem.
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I can’t remember exactly when I started skipping class in high school.
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All I know is I would wake up at 6 a.m., decide it wasn’t worth it some days, and go back to bed. I was a full day skipper, never just a single class.
It started in Grade 11, during the COVID-19 pandemic. I was adapting to a brand new schedule of being back in the classrooms: I hated biology class, but I really loved the video game Red Dead........