Computers and Truants
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
Suburban high schools in Arlington County, Va., are using computers to record and try to remedy the problem of truancy. Unexplained absences are recorded in the machine, and each night the computer telephones the student’s home and, using a human voice, demands a written excuse for the absence.
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