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Article History

Received: 22 May 2025

Revised: 26 March 2026

Accepted: 8 April 2026

First Online: 6 May 2026

Competing interests

: The authors declare no conflict of interest.

: The research did not involve direct interaction with living individuals, or identifiable private information. The school district is collecting data on absence according to their own protocols. The data provided for the research group were de-identified. A data security plan was developed and approved by the district prior to obtaining data from the district. The plan details the issues related to handling the district data, including appropriate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards, and the way district data are collected, accessed, used, stored, processed, disposed of, and disclosed.