Worries about issues like bad grades keep some kids out of class, and learning new ways to deal with these feelings can bring them back.

By Zi Jia Ng

Nearly 30 percent of K–12 students in the United States were chronically absent in the 2022–23 school year. Have you had a student who refuses to go to school? How about a student who attends but skips class? Or a student who puts their head on the table when told to work on a task during class?

As adults, we may run because we think we can’t handle a situation in what’s known as avoidance, or we may hide because we don’t want to deal with a situation in what psychologists call escape. Students are no different.

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