This sentiment did not belong to Byer alone; all of the county representatives who spoke on the panel following her speech at the Children’s Roundtable Summit in Philadelphia on Sept. 24 echoed her words of warning. The summit, held Sept. 23-25, addressed the issue, among many others, of truancy and its impact on the individuals involved and their communities.
Byer is uniquely qualified to speak on this issue. She created a 10-week program in her own county that has proven effective in reducing truancy, and similar programs in Pennsylvania are already following her model. Truancy, said Byer and the panel, is not merely an issue of a few bad kids not showing up to school, but rather has systemic issues within the community and the nation.
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