Tips for Improving Child's School Attendance

1. Insist that your child attend school.

2. If your child does not want to go to school, find out why. Talk to your child and listen for an answer. Perhaps they have a problem you can help solve. Youth need to know their parents will take action and support them.

3. Don't enable your child to continue to defy the law by calling the school to cover their absence.

4. Use mediation or other counseling services that the school provides.

5. Attend school with your child until they are willing to go on their own.

Information taken from: Hennepin County's Truancy/Educational Neglect Project publication "Truancy: What you as a Parent Need to Know"