Compliance is not learning, no matter how neatly we package it. Ontario is moving to tie high school grades to attendance. Should Newfoundland and Labrador follow? A VOCM poll suggests 74% of respondents say yes. On the surface, it sounds like accountability. In reality, it risks mistaking compliance for learning. The harder question is the one we keep avoiding: why are students not showing up in the first place? This isn’t a motivation problem. It’s a relevance problem.