Why recovering is so much harder than maintaining
Attendance is a ratio with a denominator that only grows. Every class you miss adds to the bottom without adding to the top, so the damage from one absence is permanent — you cannot un-miss it, you can only dilute it with future attendance.
The arithmetic is unforgiving. Sixty classes attended out of a hundred against a 75% requirement means the next sixty must be attended without exception to reach exactly 75%, and any single absence in that stretch puts it out of reach. This is why the useful moment to run this calculation is before the absences, not after.