Send us a text When kids stop showing up to school, it’s easy to blame attendance - but what if the problem runs deeper? In this episode of Dangerous Ideas for Social Change, Kent Dueck sits down with Mallory Pledger to unpack the stories behind ABSENT, a powerful new documentary exploring why so many young people are slipping through the cracks. Watch the documentary “ABSENT” on YouTube to see the stories that inspired this conversation. https://youtu.be/4hYN-HK6bWM Support the show We ...
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Send us a text When kids stop showing up to school, it’s easy to blame attendance - but what if the problem runs deeper? In this episode of Dangerous Ideas for Social Change, Kent Dueck sits down with Mallory Pledger to unpack the stories behind ABSENT, a powerful new documentary exploring why so many young people are slipping through the cracks. Watch the documentary “ABSENT” on YouTube to see the stories that inspired this conversation. https://youtu.be/4hYN-HK6bWM Support the show We ...
Send us a text In this episode Kent sits down with longtime community advocate Sel Burrows to confront one of the most pressing and overlooked crises in our education system: chronic absenteeism. Sel and Kent speak candidly about years of fighting to shine a light on absenteeism, the resistance they’ve faced, and why honesty with impunity is the only way forward. This conversation also ties into the upcoming documentary ABSENT, premiering October 1, which takes an even deeper look at the cris...
Dangerous Ideas for Social Change
Send us a text When kids stop showing up to school, it’s easy to blame attendance - but what if the problem runs deeper? In this episode of Dangerous Ideas for Social Change, Kent Dueck sits down with Mallory Pledger to unpack the stories behind ABSENT, a powerful new documentary exploring why so many young people are slipping through the cracks. Watch the documentary “ABSENT” on YouTube to see the stories that inspired this conversation. https://youtu.be/4hYN-HK6bWM Support the show We ...