How about we take the money being spent on a committee to examine absenteeism and redirect it towards teacher’s aides, school programs, and ground level movements that instantly benefit the student instead of paying invisible people to study and give ridiculous answers. Additionally maybe parents are keeping sick kids home instead of pushing them into school where they get classmates sick. What if people are actually thinking instead of just pushing. But the education system doesnt see a child just a number and a dollar sign .