Do they know why absenteeism has dropped since COVID-19 or why Hillsdale is improving on this better than other counties?

The very fact that kids are getting back into classrooms is helping.

But the state of Michigan still has a chronic absence rate of 27.2% as opposed to Hillsdale's 20.8%.

Now, if you look at them both on a graph, the state of Michigan since the 2021 to 22 school year decreases and only decreases.

Hillsdale's has decreased and then increased and it decreased back again.

Although we have a lower rate compared to the state of Michigan overall, we still have some years where chronic absenteeism gets worse and then it gets back better.

At the same time, we know that chronic absenteeism can't be the only benchmark or measuring tool for how kids are doing in the classrooms.

What are some of their favorite memories from Hillsdale?