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The RAND Corporation estimated that approximately 22% of K-12 students were chronically absent in the 2024-2025 school year.

When I was in the Philippines, I found that one of my landlord's helpers was going to school in fifth grade because she'd been pulled out of school early to go to work. I think she was 18 or 20 years old. The landlady found out she didn't know how to count and sent her to school. She graduated and dropped out trying to snag a husband. Mandatory schooling is a relatively new thing in the countryside of the Philippines. I wonder if that 22% has a large number of working kids in it.

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