There were periods when attendance dropped.
Not from disinterest,
but from what was required elsewhere.
Work at home.
Seasonal demands.
Moments when the day could not be shaped around school.
Learning did not stop.
But it was interrupted.
And interruption changes more than time.
It breaks continuity.
It weakens retention.
It turns progress into something that must be restarted.
What appears as inconsistency
is often the result of competing realities.
Because education does not stand alone.
Where conditions are fragile,
learning adjusts to what life demands.
And when learning must wait,
it rarely continues unchanged.