Ep 117 — One Daily Text with John Bird

Chronic absenteeism can feel like the one problem that refuses to budge, no matter how many letters you send home or how many consequences you add. We sit down with Vice Principal John Bird of Kingsburg High School in New Jersey to talk about why attendance is rarely a single-choice issue and how a systems approach helps schools untangle the real drivers behind truancy, missed days, and disengagement. John shares what changed when his team treated absenteeism like a connected web: poverty pr...