Attendance Awareness


"Attendance Awareness: Build Good Habits emphasizes the pivotal role of school attendance in a child's educational journey, particularly during the formative years of Kindergarten and elementary school. United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra, in collaboration with the Northern Nevada Reading Coalition, is deeply committed to nurturing literacy development in young learners, recognizing that proficient reading and writing skills form the bedrock for lifelong learning. While it might be tempting to underestimate the impact of occasional absences at this stage, even missing just two days of school per month constitutes chronic absenteeism, resulting in significant learning disparities that can hinder a child's academic progress in relation to their peers."

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