"Attendance tracking at some Toronto schools has been so lax at times that parents haven't been properly notified that their child hasn't shown up for class, according to a new audit. And in some cases according to an internal audit of the Toronto District School Board's 2024-25 safe arrival protocol the school doesn't always know the whereabouts of an absent student."
"Pilkey pointed out that the audit also shows only about 10 per cent of schools studied aren't complying with board policies, down from 17 per cent in the 2023-24 audit. "That's an improvement and that's a sign that training is starting to work," she said. Parents weren't always contacted According to Pilkey, schools first take morning attendance, which should show which students are not in class."
An internal audit of the Toronto District School Board's 2024-25 safe arrival protocol examined attendance monitoring at 25 schools between October 2024 and June 2025. The audit found that attendance tracking was sometimes so lax that parents were not properly notified when children did not show up for class and that some schools did not always know the whereabouts of absent students. The review covered five secondary and 20 elementary schools and cannot be extrapolated to all 580 TDSB schools. Compliance issues affected about 10 percent of reviewed schools, down from 17 percent the previous year, indicating training may be improving adherence to policy.
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