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I teach at a community college, and we're experiencing the same issues. I talk with my students, and the reasons range from work changing their schedule weekly (me: "Have you considered talking to your manager?") to helping with the family (picking up/dropping off siblings). However, I've noticed more students increasingly relying on anxiety and "not feeling it today". And this is where you wrote something that really stood out to me:

“I’ve never been more prepared to support students who have missed class in getting caught up; AND I’ve never had fewer students utilize the supports/materials when they are absent.”

I point students to our Psychological Services. I personally know some of the counselors, so I'll do the "warm handoff". Yet...nothing. Students have given me the "it's not you, it's me" and I don't know how to respond to that. Thanks for writing this

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