Routines: Daily attendance routines can reduce stress, increase your child’s self-confidence, and lay a foundation for good attendance in later grades. 

Engagement: Participation in school helps your child connect with other children and adults and get excited about learning. 

Access to Resources: Schools can give you access to meals, physical and mental health care and other supports, and fun enrichment activities (sports, clubs, music, afterschool and summer programs, etc.). 

Learning: Children learn best from hand-on activities and through meaningful interactions with their teacher and other students.   

Routines: Establishing a routine of daily attendance helps reduce stress at home and supports a habit of attendance that will help your teenager get and keep a job.   

Engagement: Being in school helps students get to know each other and school staff and builds relationships that can motivate participation in learning. 

Access to Resources: Schools provide access to valuable resources such as meals, health, mental health supports, and enrichment activities such as sports, clubs, music, and other afterschool and summer programs.

Learning: Students who attend school regularly do better academically in junior high and are more likely to graduate from high school. 

Routines: A daily attendance routine can help you reduce stress and develop habits that help you keep a job.

Engagement: Being in school gives you a chance to see your friends and build relationships with school staff.  

Access to Resources: Schools provide access to valuable resources such as meals, health, mental health supports, and enrichment activities such as sports, clubs, music, and other afterschool and summer programs.

Learning: You are more likely to pass classes and graduate from high school when you miss less than a week of school each semester.