Will attendance based grading improve school absenteeism?

Attendance based grading is when your attendance affects your grade, so if you're often missing school, it might bring your grade down.

Imagine you have a favorite toy that you play with every day, let's say it’s a race car. If you don’t play with it on some days, it doesn't get to zoom as much. Now imagine your grade is like the race car, if you miss school too often, your grade might not go as fast as it could.

In attendance based grading, teachers keep track of how many times you're there. If you’re often absent, it can lower your final grade, just like how your race car doesn’t get to zoom if you don't play with it every day.

Some kids might decide to come to school more often because they know that missing too many days could make their grades go down. It's like when you want your race car to win the big race, you have to keep playing with it every day!