Ohio’s schools have students from all kinds of different home situations. With that diversity comes a host of family circumstances, some with plenty of supports for children going to school, and some with barriers and issues that can lead to a student missing school to help make money for the household or to take care of a sibling when a working parent isn’t able.
“It could be everything from a basic need going on, it could be transportation, it could be a family issue, it could be something going on with the student,” said Brooklyn Brown, director of community outreach for the nonprofit Communities in Schools of Ohio.
