Teachers must create and grade make-up work for every absence — even confirmed truants — while attendance policy goes unenforced

Summary

Teachers are expected to provide make-up work and tests for all absences, including students confirmed truant, while districts refuse to meaningfully enforce attendance policy and students cannot automatically fail for low attendance. The result is an endless, uncompensated administrative workload that consumes grading and planning time, undermines assessment integrity, and caps lesson quality — because any lesson must be easily made up outside class to be fair. Bus-driver shortages and other systemic causes of absenteeism go unaddressed, yet the burden of remediation lands entirely on individual teachers, who report burnout and helplessness when told to 'improve attendance' with no tools or authority. No product exists to manage make-up eligibility, automate equitable make-up assignment and tracking, or give teachers evidence to push back on unenforced attendance policies. This is a high-intensity, high-volume administrative pain with no real solution today.