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Michael Zwaagstra: Ontario Government Right to Make Attendance Count for Marks

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Michael Zwaagstra: Ontario Government Right to Make Attendance Count for Marks
A classroom at a public school in Ottawa on Dec. 5, 2025. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang
Michael Zwaagstra
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Imagine you own a business and an employee regularly fails to show up for work. What would you do? Unless the employee had a valid reason, chances are you would dock that employee’s pay for the hours they missed. In the most egregious cases, you would fire the employee and hire someone else.

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Michael Zwaagstra
Michael Zwaagstra
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Michael Zwaagstra is a public high school teacher and a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute. He is the author of “A Sage on the Stage: Common Sense Reflections on Teaching and Learning.”