Most Niles High School kids were absent

NILES – More than half the student body at Niles McKinley High School were absent Wednesday, the schools superintendent says.

Superintendent Rocco Adduci said that 478 students were absent while 346 were attended classes in the wake of two school lockdowns this week.

“Not very good,” Adduci said of the absenteeism rate.

Meanwhile, Police Chief Bruce Simeone has ordered his officers to enforce the daytime curfew ordinance.

Simeone said if students are seen walking around the city without their parents or guardian, they will be taken to police headquarters under the curfew law to wait for a parent or guardian to pick them up.

Adduci said that unless the students have legitimate excuses, they will be marked as absent. The state requires students to attend classes 90 percent of the time, he added.

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