No matter where you fall on the ed reform debate, we can all agree that District children have a funny little habit of not showing up to school.

Nearly 4,000 students were truant from D.C. Public Schools last semester alone, and 13 percent of secondary school students had racked up 15 or more unexcused absences, earning them the school system’s “chronically truant” label.

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