Summoned to court for too many pre k tardy's?

[MurphyPl1]

Originally Posted by jerzstyle00

Well i pay taxes too so your tax money is not better then the rest of our tax money and my kid is not loosing time like you assume.all his tardys dont add up more then 20 minutes its just been a minute or 2 he's been late everytme the most and thats due to us sharing vehicles. But again i didnt know his would be such a serious issue especially for pre k . I came here for advice not to get chewed up on by your arrogance . But i do appreciate your second line which offers help.

95% of the parents I know have their kids at school at least 10 minutes prior to the start of the day. NOT at the start of the day.

The other 5%, interestingly, seem to all have children who struggle with school.

[MurphyPl1]

Originally Posted by compSciGuy

Frisco ISD:



Hmm, the wording is noticeably different than Plano ISD ... I'll see how my daughter deals with school next year, although I am tempted to move her:

It is a big problem at the MS and HS levels. The JP that handles the truancy cases for PISD has a huge backlog.

[loves2read]

I know that when I was a teacher and had students who were always late/absent to class, one tactic I tried was calling them when I got to school--usually before 7AM many times...
was supposed to be on campus by 745...

rarely worked because they just started turning off the phone

you would be surprised though--some families don't own an alarm clock--
fragmented lives, parents doing shift work or working two jobs--kids who have no inculcated sense of time...

tried an experiement once in my class--
had students put their heads down on desks with hands over their heads--so they could not see their watches if they had any...
told them we were going to time 2 minutes--
total silence--no talking--had them raise their hands when they thought we reached the 2 min limit--
most of them had their hands in the air long before the time limit--some of them after only 30 seconds or so...
no sense of time....
I am one of those people who have a good natural clock--can usually think when I want to wake up and I will do so...or tell the time of day w/o having to really check a watch...
now kids don't use watches for time (maybe for bling)--they track time with their phone displays...