Gotta use a Vietnamese girl as an example to educate all the thugs.
My principal (who is black) admitted to skipping loads of school while maintaining a 4.0 GPA because he had to support his mom and siblings in the 80’s. He now has a GPA and can’t kick kids out of school because the districts “AYP” would go down.
I was sick a lot when I was a junior in HS. I was taking an advanced math class.... I don’t remember much about it but it involved calculus and trig. I did better the quarter I was at home then any other time during the year. The teacher scared me to death but I understood the book. In physics I got Cs on all the lab work but got 100% on all the standardized tests. 25 years later my son did the same.
Imagine trying to cope all on your own without benefitting from the wisdom of a social worker (whose job it is to keep people like this in the system.)
I had the same situation as your principal when I was in school in the late ‘60s.
Of course the schools didn’t depend on funding then based on attendance like they do now.
I find it appalling that they are doing this to this young lady. She’s alot tougher and more self-motivated than some of the adults I know.