Buddy Pearson & Attendance Supervisor Chris Pierce

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Buddy Pearson sits down with the Putnam County Attendance Supervisor, Chris Pierce. They talk all things attendance: from Truancy Intervention, to what prepared him to work with kids, and what the effects of being late to school have on a child.

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