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Did you miss the equivalent of an entire year of high school in student absences? That doesn’t seem possible anywhere else that I’ve ever heard of.
There is no way a parent would not be taken to court and fined if their student missed that much school here. And despite complaints about it being unfair to poor people I fully support this policy. They can spread the fine out over time to make it more manageable, but there must be some accountability for parents. Otherwise you end up with students missing school too much to even learn.
If they were truly sickly like you said they would be required to have doctor care and possibly do the online curriculum. That was pre-Covid. I’d assume everyone with chronic illness would have to do virtual learning today now that they’re set up for it.
They’re going to take advantage of that virtual learning a lot now. Before our ice storm a couple of weeks ago it was predicted to be a couple of days (ha!) so they announced that the kids would have asynchronous learning Monday and Tuesday.
We were joking at work that Friday that the kids would never get another bad weather day off because of the virtual learning set up now. Boy were we wrong.
Not quite a whole year, no. There was no internet back then. I wasn't trying to say that this kid was sick. I was just saying that some people have legit reasons to miss a lot of school.
Not quite a whole year, no. There was no internet back then. I wasn't trying to say that this kid was sick. I was just saying that some people have legit reasons to miss a lot of school.
That much though? What was he doing on his absent days? And when he was in school did he sleep in his chair in class?
In 9th Grade I once missed one day because we were going on vacation and on President's Day weekend we couldn't get a Saturday flight. My English teacher (who proved to be a witch) dinged my grade from an A+ to an A.
Okay let’s see, he was late or absent 272 times in three years and she says that he did t fail but the school failed. She is partly right. The school system is failing in part due to parents not becoming involved in the education of their children. So yes, the school is at fault, but the majority of the blame goes to the parent and the child.
That much though? What was he doing on his absent days? And when he was in school did he sleep in his chair in class?
In 9th Grade I once missed one day because we were going on vacation and on President's Day weekend we couldn't get a Saturday flight. My English teacher (who proved to be a witch) dinged my grade from an A+ to an A.
Huh? I never said that this kid had a legit reason.
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Okay let’s see, he was late or absent 272 times in three years and she says that he did t fail but the school failed. She is partly right. The school system is failing in part due to parents not becoming involved in the education of their children. So yes, the school is at fault, but the majority of the blame goes to the parent and the child.
The school failed, in that they were perfectly happy to accept this level of achievement, and graduate him.
Their failure wasn't that they didn't communicate with the parents about his lack of success and attendance; their failure was that was good enough for him, and his peers, and his predecessors to earn a diploma.
The school had no real reason to contact mom - there were no concerns. He was on the 4 year conveyor belt to get a diploma, as expected by the school, and the mom.
And I'm still hoping for criminal charges against the admin for doing this. Standing by, doing nothing to ensure the students coming up in that district got an education.
He didn't want to be there, wasn't interested in learning, and the school was happy to oblige. And he certainly isn't unique. Write him off and move on - the rest of the world has.
She thought everything was fine because the school kept promoting him to successively higher level classes each year. From Algebra I to Algebra II, from Spanish I to Spanish II, etc. But in reality, he had failed all but 3 of the classes he'd taken over the past 3.5 years. The school definitely screwed up.
Don't they still mail report cards home?? My parents always knew how well or badly we were doing.
Until Covid, our students were handed report cards.
In parent conferences at the end of the year for failing students, I routinely asked parents if they got the three progress reports and term report card that I sent home each term. When they replied that they had not, I usually told them that there was not much that I could do. They didn't have much to say at that point.
I teach students who are intending on going to college where there will be no one to "stay on them." It is extremely important for students to learn self-management before they sign their student loan forms and start incurring a balance. There are times that I advise parents not to stay on their kids so that they can learn personal responsibility. Better to learn about failure in a high school French class than to flunk out of college with a 1.2 GPA and thousands of dollars in loans with no degree to get the job to pay it back.
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