ummmm they definitely did bully is nowhere as bad as it was in the 70,80,90s this not to say bullying is gone that will never entirely be the case but they have been doing a lot which I've seen firsthand.
I had terrible depression and anxiety in the 90s. They barely recognized anxiety and depression back then. I missed a lot of school and I was threatened with being put in a foster home, away from my parents. My dad was an attorney so that was even added pressure. I'd lost a lot of ppl in my life, and to add salt to the wound our basketball team captain died in a car wreck. That was REALLY hard and what made me break down and quit school. Nobody wanted to help me recover and instead the school wanted me to take extra classes because my attendance wouldn't allow me to graduate (I had passing grades). When I did go to school, the teachers were mean to me and took it personal that I missed their class. One teacher kicked me out after taking her exam. She was so offended that I'd missed so much school, she had me removed immediately after the exam and I had no clue what was happening until the guidance counselor told me I was going to another class by force It's no wonder kids don't want to go to school. The more school you miss, the harder it is to go back. They don't welcome you back with open arms, instead they judge you as this incompetent juvenile that just wants to sleep in Btw I got my diploma (high school equivalent) in 2020, taking classes and tests right before covid hit
Kids are just numbers for districts and have been for a long time. Each student absent is $50/day lost for the districts, give or take. They care more about profits than they care about the possibility of students not learning while being absent. Failed system.
@@mrsdsparkythat doesn’t make it any better enrollment just means your name has to be on paper. I can be enrolled somewhere and never be present physically. This further proved OP comment that they don’t care about the education it’s all about the money. You can’t stay enrolled forever though if you’re never present they’ll just give the spot to their next cash cow uhh ahh I mean another person
Not true. The reality is that teachers are evaluated based on student performance and it's kind of hard to teach kids who aren't in school. I've got a student who's been absent 15 times so far and he's not in school now for a trip to Georgia. And he plans to miss school around spring break for a cruise. But then the mom freaks out when he fails a test. It's really frustrating.
@@mrsdsparky So you just proved exactly what you said wasn't true as true. Everything in this country is a numbers/quota system, take CPS for example. All it takes is for one kid to say something incorrectly for the state to move in and take the children away, mainly because each child is a massive payout from the state for them to add to their own budget. The problem with this country overall is middle management getting power hungry, greedy and overinflated.
This is nothing new. Truant officers have been out in full force during the day making sure kids were in school and the parents were held responsible for generations. This generation just thinks it’s new.
15 million getting bullied?? If that's the case they'd be homeschooling. I can't imagine a parent just letting their kid stay home learning nothing just because of bullies.
@@seanthe100I honestly think way to many excuses are being made for gen z modern society has spoiled these kids now all they want to do is be on Instagram and play video-games
@@seanthe100 i was bullied i could not do homeschool because I am dyslexic It is ok if I failed at school they just gave me d's rather then f's but at home you have to be able to pass their standardized testing
Parents cannot homeschool or online school if they have to work. Bullying is very much a HUGE problem that still isn't being addressed. I would absolutely skip school to avoid being bullied.
So with Limited Jailed Cells, our Justice System decided it is more importants to jail parents for their kids missing school rather than Violent criminals?
Correct. When you look at every stupid thing this country does from a monetary perspective, it all makes sense. It's easy to fine a single Mother $200 for simply anything and easily get the money from her as she won't have the choice or savings to hire a lawyer or file an appeal, it's a quick couple-hundred for the city/county budget.
This is quite ridiculous. Kids are required to go to school but some can’t get a decent meal there because they have a lunch account balance. If you’re forcing them into a government building all day feed them.
@@jrod9733Yes it is, it’s actually all there fault and will continue to be there fault until they start getting there act together. Let me tell you, being in a capitalist society does not let you get away with corruption.
When I was in Middle School, my grandfather fell gravely ill. My Mom, a widow and an only child of her parents, took us on many trips that year to visit grandpa in the hospital in another state. We took our books with us in the car, and did our work. At the end of the year, our principal spoke with my Mom. He said, "Your daughter has missed so many days this year that the law requires me to fail her; however, she has done more work AND kept a higher grade than any other student in the Middle School, so I'm not going to do that." Truancy laws are unwise. Doing work and learning have nothing to do with sitting in a certain room all year. It's one of the many reasons that, as a parent, I have chosen to homeschool.
A lot of teachers complaining how a student’s absence makes their numbers look bad instead of how sending a kid to school sick makes a parent actually negligent and is not good for the child. Children are getting sick more than during the pandemic because there are no safety precautions for illness and schools insist on students being there.
I'm seeing more and more people deciding not to have kids. Society is seriously going downhill. What are the chances kids being born now-days will actually have a good life???
When women were introduced to the workforce, they should have lowered the working hours for the average person. Now nobody got time for kids if they're both working.
Simple solution to fix this issue: Change the system. Seriously, its past time to embrace self-paced/virtual learning instead of showing up to a broken down building with a class full of other morons whom don't want to be there..
This is absolutely ridiculous. I am from Texas as well. We took the pandemic seriously and avoided large gatherings. When my toddler started school in 2022/23 he had 13 infections within 3 months. I had to take him to doctor’s office every single time to get a note. The doctor recommended rest/hydration/time for recovery each time. No medication. This was waste of time and resources. There needs to be a middle ground. If a parent is saying their kid is sick with something minor believe them. Let them recover at home.
I grew up getting sick all the time. I could be with someone for 5 minutes and catch what they had, and ten times worse. Looking back on it, there were early signs of a future autoimmune disease, but we didn't know it at the time. I missed school constantly because parents would send their kids to school sick and I'd catch it. Of course when I was little, my mom would take me to the doctor every time for safe measure, but I certainly can't afford to do that now. Most of the time the answer was rest and to stay home from school and not infect others. In middle school and high school, the attendance office tried to crack down on me hard. I had straight A's and never once got in trouble for anything disruptive, and tried to attend school as much as I possibly could since I did enjoy it, but my attendance was still a problem for them. One year we had a two school shooting threats, and so I didn't come, and they decided to count it against me as unexcused. It's insane. I'm glad I'm gone.
There's a solution: safe indoor air for schools. It's INSANE that we not only are still screwing it up, but that we're also punishing people for sickness.
I have same situation as you, in 2022/2023, my son start preschool. He have been sheltered at home most of his life. In the first 5 months of school, he was sick every other week( 1 week school, 1 week at home). My son likely absent 3 months in his first school year. Things got better after Jan 2023. I was fearful the administration complained but they did not. I would stand up for my son if they did. But for older adult, it could be family situation or young kids get sick that make them absent more than 10 days/school year.
My kid has missed 10 days already. She was not exposed to any of these kid germs before starting kindergarten and now that she is around so many kids she is picking up everything. R.S.V. then covid and she also had an ear infection right at the beginging of the year. It has been rough.
People keep sending their kids to school sick. Some of them probably dont have a choice to work. Then, those sick kids get all of the other kids sick. My kids have gotten sick so many times just this school year. Sent home from the nurse's office several times.
There needs to be some middle ground. Schools want kids at school, but they also want sick kids to be home. They want a doctor's note for every absence but every illness does not require going to the doctor. Not to mention bullying, lack of transportation, and gas. There are so many barriers to attending school.
school sent CPS for my son absence , he miss 10days they where sick days … all in my family where sick 🤒. I told cps worker that I was not spending 4hrs in the doctors office just for a tylenol recipe and a note from the doctor for excuse days for school. that i rather spend that time resting at home, she told me that it was okay to send my son to school sick and with a fever , just to send him with a bottle water and he will be ok…🤦♀️
@arianatoscano9729 That shows CPS doesn’t care about the safety of children. This why everyone keeps getting sick because people send there kids to school sick and then the kids pass it along to the rest of family and their parents go to work sick and so the cycle repeats. I respect your decision to keep your sick child home that CPS worker is terrible.
Schools should actually focus on improving education, teachers wages and other school issues. They keep this up and a lot more schools will see less teachers and students.
💯 agreed, if your going to put parents in jail you might as well ask them to withdraw their kids out of public school, and put them in virtual or homeschool.
Home School. You do not have to send your children to anyone else if you are teaching them and the police can not do anything but scare you out of your rights. Society proves school didn't do anything to help us. Create learning environments at home. A library. Art, math, sewing etc. and let your child have a more natural free schedule. Put the government in their place. Out of your and your children lives.
@@aycc-nbh7289 thats a lie created by predators. A parent/s can plan play dates and field trips for their children, nieces and nephews close friends and one thing you are right about is yes we should have small close friends community groups that we raise our children in. But it is Naturally Primarily the parents job. But scripture tell us it takes a village. We need our own Communities where our children are being brought up in a close nit thrusted nurturing habitat. And then if everyone does that. Children will casually and naturally meet as the parents go about their lives. These lies of we can't change is outrageous. Two weak lame excuses that no one reasoned with. Homeschooling is a excellent place to develop not only strong friendships, but individual identity, and family unit building. I argue that its not only the best option but its the safest and healthiest option. When the parents have hearts for Love. And love Is a being our Father we must Have a relationship with Him to succeed in Anything. America is destroying the world. They need to take that factual credit.
There is such a shortage of teachers right now due to lack of livable wages, that over half of my 9th grade brothers day consist of study halls. For Science class they've been putting the kids in the gym to just work on homework. I have no faith that increased attendance would help anything. The real issue are how our teachers are paid because no one can afford to take on that career now.
Growing up, my teachers would always emphasize on returning borrowed utensils when the students didn’t have their own. I never needed to borrow, but growing up and hearing about how little teachers are actually paid do I see why teachers would get upset over there materials going missing
@thefix2573 Give a solid justification why scheduling is the fault of the teachers and why they don't deserve to be a salaried position that pays them throughout the year regardless if they're teaching summer school? Explain to me why the principle of hourly pay is more important to society than our educators receiving a livable wage?
They are represented, by a Union, so they gave up their voice in exchange for someone else's. Should I pay the Landscaper in the winter when there's a foot of snow on the lawn? Should I stop and pay for a Big Mac when I didn't order or recieve one? Should I pay my Barber this month even though I didn't get a haircut? I am a finish carpenter, should someone pay me when I haven't worked for a month? Should I start knocking on doors asking for a paycheck from previous clients? Explain to me why someone should get paid for NOT working? @@TheInstigator32
So you're gonna put 15 Million kids/parts in foster care/jail because they or their parents aren't taking them to school? Lets see how that pans out...
Schools be like: Don't send your child to school sick. We don't want them to infect other students! Schools also be like: You kept your child home sick too many days so now you're going to have a meeting with us and the police department! Schools also also be like: 5 minutes late counts as a whole day of truancy!
Finally, someone gets it the irony of public schools double standards. This double standards really bothering me for several years and it won't go away until all public schools needs to face negative consequences, or they'll be facing massive closures. Either they'll changed their toxic bs policies, or we as citizens will stop paying taxes for them.
I missed 30+ days due to sickness, when I did come to school they kicked me out of class for coughing. The school threatened to hold me back, not put me into the honors classes for not getting enough classroom time, all while I got perfect Standard of Learning scores.
I have two high school children, but have you talk to these teachers as a parent it not hard to see the disconnection why go somewhere to learn when these teachers are crazy delusional or just don’t care about these kids
If I recall this has always been a thing, if you miss so many days of school you get in trouble and then you get suspended unless you had excuses from a doctor or something.
It has been a thing for sure. Not sure about the locking parents up. I had to go to court too with my mom when I missed 44 days of school in middle school. But I just remember being threatened with a fine. We had doctors notes on all the absences and avoided it but I can see that this is punishing to the poor… but some parents maybe do need the wake up call that they are parents linked to children they bore…
@@angelinimartini What I don't understand why do that, you can make it up with summer school. Or is summer school not around anymore. That's what they did years ago I mean years ago. IF you missed a lot of school still get suspended but you can make it up in summer school.
@@studiomanhud8945 nah with staffing shortages, there isn't much we can do for them in summertime except try and keep em safe and outta trouble 😮 the older they are, the tougher it is. Last year, in summer school we had only 3 random teachers. These kids are failing in a wide variety of subjects and need significant time and support. Some are in gangs or the literal man of their homes. I wish I could teach them all to read, and do geometry but I am only the PE teacher. I cannot undo YEARS of neglect in one summer 😢❤ Sometimes, like I said, the best we can do is keep a kid off the street, spend time with them and give them free sandwiches. 🥲🤝😪 they tell me that I am the most responsible adult they know. I am only 25 myself. Its very sad 😮 im not enough to support them
If everyone dropped out there would be major education changes it’s time to update the system that doesn’t evolve test scores and student loans to determine your future
Ive missed probably around 25 days of school this year and the school emailed me saying if i missed a few more theyd hold me back. I have good grades and not struggling at all from my absences. Absolute bs
When I taught first grade it was sad to see parents be lazy with taking their children to school. I had parents explain to me that sometimes they wouldn't bring them because the child didn't feel like it. It was sad to see a child with so much potential fall behind in reading because the parent didn't parent.
I understand trying to minimize absent students that just go to Disneyland or something but not parents who have a sick child. My daughter had a rough year. Had an accident, had to have surgery, medical appointments, I tried to get them after school but it's not always that easy. She was able to do all her assignments at home. After the pandemic it made it easier to makeup work remotely.
I remembered coughing and told my mom I don’t want to go to school, but my mom told me “no fever and vomiting” I go to school. The many times I had a cough and allergy symptoms I would have had more than 18 absences if my mom allowed me to stay at home just because I didn’t feel like going to school because of a cough.
NBC really misrepresented the real issues of truancy in the US education system with this story, and it really is a shame. The vast majority of school districts are understanding of students, like this kid, who may have an actual health condition preventing them from attending school. Educators are tired of kids simply staying home or wandering the streets in the middle of the school day because parents don’t want to parent. I’m sorry…but it’s the truth. Even if you are a single parent working two jobs, it is STILL your responsibility to make sure your child gets an education. Are we really going to just allow kids to remain absent from school because “they are poor”? If anything, these children are the ones that we need to make sure attend school so they have a chance at a better life. I think jail is extreme, but courts should start ordering parents to send their kids to school.
School districts just want your money from attendance to property taxes. They don't care if the students are learning actually learning anything, are happy or even safe! School doesn't prepare you for the outside world which is indicated by the fact it indoctrinates. Why should anyone have to go there with that reason alone?
Parents and students need to be held accountable for their actions and we need to stop blaming teachers for these things. Teachers are blamed for students being absent from their classes ("why were so many students absent? what weren't you doing to MAKE them WANT to come to class?") And this is why there is a teacher shortage, because no one is holding students accountable or responsible for anything. Parents need to accept their fair share of the blame and stop treating teachers like glorified babysitters.
That’s why I homeschool my 4 year old my 13 year old was very sick this year so when u got sick like anyone else I kept him home. I got threatened by a letter saying they’re going to call child protective service on me because I kept my son home for a fever. Homeschool your children.
I understand attendance is important. And that this is geared to kids not attending when they should be there....but my kids caught covid in Sept....that's 5 days out. Then flu in December...another 4 days....then strep..another 2 days .. Now covid again ....another 5 days. What do you want us to do? Send kids in sick and contagious to spread the germs? To possibly pass covid or the flu to another child who might live with a vulnerable grandparent?? It's a f...ing germ swap in these schools nowadays. And it isn't like years ago, now society has lab created illnesses - such as covid- which are much different than naturally occurring pathogens. No one should be forced to send a sick child who is contagious to school out of fear of going to truancy court. Ridiculous!
Former Teacher/administrator/single parent here...all person's who in care of children are mandated reporters meaning we are required by law to make reports of suspicion of abuse. We don't Investigate but report. Educational neglect is a real problem in America creating a larger lower class and does not creating a competent, competitive society. Before that report is put in, an entire process happens first. First phone calls, attempts at home visits, etc. People get ill but communicate that if it happens because schools don't know. Then, the report is made only after all attempts at contact and resolution are exhausted. DCS then investigates. If they were fined or charged then DCS found reasonable cause to pursue charges, especially if they were convicted and fined. It's not an attack on the poor. it's ensuring that your child has a fighting chance at an ever evolving economy/society. There are only so many fast food and retail jobs, and those require some form of education. I know it's not pleasant to experience it but as a former classroom teacher, it is also very painful to see a child's education not being taken seriously, leaving them in a repeated pattern of poverty.
what about when school isn't a safe place for kids I knew very few kids at school but a lot seemed to know me I was bullied in and out of class and all the teachers ever did was to tell them to stop and sometimes they listened for 5 mins before doing it again I was home a lot because there were days just the thought of going would make me sick to my stomach nerves I ended up dropping out when I could i studied for a month and got my GED they are easy to get and I am dyslexic
Granted, it's been over 40 years since I've been in school. But in the case of the young man with the stomach ulcer, when I was in school and a prolonged absence was needed for medical reasons, a letter from a doctor was required. Is this not a thing anymore? You can't force someone to go to school if they're too sick to go and a doctor agrees! The same with work. Only with work, they can fire you for missing too much time. As for the truant ones who AREN'T sick, charge every one of them. Except for the year I had pneumonia, I don't think I missed more than 4 possibly 5 days of school in any given year. Some years not even THAT much.
Meanwhile, there are millions of kids who don't attend school AT ALL because their parents decided to "homeschool" them and there is ZERO regulation, oversight, or accountability for those kids or their parents. They don't even have to prove that they're actually learning anything.
Government is already too big when it comes to education. They need to butt out. Just because things can go wrong doesn't mean they get to have their bureaucratic hands on other people's children. Also public school is just indoctrination.
Why do we ask kids starting at the age of 5 to go to school 5 days a week 8 hours equaling a 40 hour week? I think we should have 4 day weeks and also the last 2 years of high school are pretty pointless
I think this is a good thing. Parents should be held responsible for their kids actions. Just like when they're praised when their child does something good. As long as the parent(s) keeps in good communication with the school regarding the absences they will have. Then no actions should be taken to the parent(s). Example, a long illness or injury. If the parent submits a doctor's, excuse from school letter, and the parent and teacher setup a system to get lesson plans so the child doesn't fall too far behind, the parent shouldn't be punished for it. The same goes if the child needs a short leave to attend or deal with a personal issue. As long as there's communication between the school and patient(s) and doesn't become a recurring theme, then no action should be taken. In the end, parents are responsible for their child's safety and well-being and if they can't handle that, then they should be, at least, grown-up enough to ask for help. Because doing nothing or pretending that nothing is wrong, will only make things more difficult and harder to fix.
I missed a lot of school because as a girl, I needed to use the bathroom several times per day at certain times of the month but the school limited it to 3, so I just had to miss those certain days repeatedly.
Not like the rise in school shootings , bullying, threats against fellow class mates , has anything to do with it. School arent school any more , for some parents they treat it like a day care ; and the kids that want to learn get pushed aside.
Too many kids are ditching school and hanging out in the corners doing lord knows what nowadays. Worst of all parents aren't doing a good job parenting their kids.
So I got a letter for my daughter missing 15 days. It’s valid to be concerned over kids missing school. However my child was sick each day but one that she missed. The one day she wasn’t sick was because there were threats made towards local schools. They say you need a doctors note for every day missed to excuse it. Fine but for every fever, every sniffle I have to keep her home. The dr isn’t going to make that cold go away by magic. I have to pay then for medication, co pays and as a visually impaired parent, transportation. Dr bills are a hardship sometimes. If she’s sick enough to need the dr I will spare no expense but for a mild fever and a sore throat I can treat at home I’ll pass on the dr. We will be in school every day she is well. If you want a drs note for everyday missed find a way to help families cover that expense.
And this is why, if I were to ever heaven forbid have children, they would be home schooled. Nothing worse than school districts that think they have more seniority and rights over your child in you as their parents. Unless you're an abusive parent, this is ridiculous.
I don't see why they want to force kids who don't care to come to school. I'm not talking about the boy that was sick and had to stay home. I'm talking about the kids who are probably failing anyway and their parents probably don't care about their education. Let them fail. Expell them. Focus on the kids who want to be in school and have goals for their life.
I’m 36 now but when I was in the 8th grade, I missed 56 days of school and my parents didn’t know. It was due to bullying. I went to school and left right after they took attendance in home room. I almost got held back but when my parents found out, they forced me to take Saturday school. They still don’t know why I was absent that many times.
The USA treats schools as factories to pump out workers. Schools are not places of education, they are places of manufacturing cogs for the machine. We need more schools, more teachers, and SMALLER CLASS SIZES. 1 teacher teaching 40+ kids is such a disservice to the students because there just isnt enough time for students to get quality 1 on 1 help when they need it. It is harder to maintain discipline with that many students. Another big issue is that school administrators are not supporting teachers, they do not want any punishment for behavior because when a student is out of school they lose money. Education needs to stop being seen as a business, it is a service, an essential service for the betterment of society. As for the homeschooling issue, both parents have to work these days. Long gone are the days of a working father and stay at home mother. A simple clerk job in retail used to pay for a car, a home, kids, and medical. You can thank corporate greed for the sellout of the citizens of the USA.
Just do away with schooling requirements. This would also benefit the serious students because they don't have riff raff to hold the class back. For the kids who don't have the motivation to study, put them to work. Win-win for everyone.
If this happened, we would likely see decreases in literacy rates, as well as an increase in people who may be unmotivated to contribute to society. In addition, it would leave massive room for parents to indoctrinate their kids with hateful ideologies and teach them the wrong way about how the world really works.
Must put Focus on parents to take responsibility for what they have created And be parents, Stoo making excuses and being proud of the fact you are a single parent knowing that this puts your child at a disadvantage ,Your choice you must be held accountable. Don't look to the government or schools to provide for and raise your children.
Just another reason why the education system is broken. If you don’t want kids to be absent, then don’t bore them out to death with sales pitches in class along with letting bullies run amok.
@@laskey2175Right! I wonder if they let them know that he was sick so often and in the hospital. I had a friend who had to have several surgeries one year in high school and he was excused for all of them. A teacher and his mom brought him his school work and he had it completed the next day.
So if your kid just gets out of school and you don't know about it then you're in trouble? What if you dropped them off and they just skip class?? How is this helping the kids??? And does the missed time affect grades at all or are you just mad kids arent all inside the same cinder block building?
So what, it's not like you actually LEARN anything in school. You just memorize random facts for a test and then never think about it for the rest of your life.
This is a much bigger problem than kids just not going to school, most of the kids ive known in my life have absolutely no hope for the future, im talking kids under the age of 12 even. I've heard 7-10 year olds who are ALREADY s*i*idal. Whats the point in education, if that education isn't going to help them achieve anything? If the future of this country is so uncertain even the children are feeling the anxiety? But yes, throw their support systems into prison because your system is falling apart. I mean its absolutely disgusting that most of these kids reaching high school cant even RETAIN INFORMATION! Because theyre not being taught phonics, they barely can read in the first place, so how can they be taught AT ALL. The answer is theyre being taught how to pass a standardized test and thats it, and they know it. The problem isn't the symptoms (absenteeism, etc), maybe look at the causes? (Overworked parents, Lack of community support, rising inflation, barely liveable prices, uncertain futures, absolutely no control over their lives) Its only going to get worse. It's only going to lead to more escaoe in our children, which will sadly include more d*ug use, s*i**de rate increase and crime. Its a horrible, cycle of a problem.
I personally don't like being around more than 10 people at a time because during a certain incident in 2001 the school I was attending at the time decided to bar all parents from picking up their kids and essentially held them hostage in a toi small gym where sardines in a can had more room.
If a 10 year old is missing school it's the parents fault and they should be held accountable, but if a 15 year old is missing school there is only so much that can be done at that point.
I missed most of middle school and highschool. I have two baccalaureates and make the top 10% hourly wage in my state. I am highly skeptical of the modern school system.
You had a level of self-motivation and self-discipline that 90% of American kids absolutely DO NOT have. Your story is not representative of reality for most.
This is not new. I worked for the TAOEP more than twenty years ago and part of that job was working with truant youth and their families. Some were taken to court. Those young people are now adults and several are FB friends and are not too upset about that process today.
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But they don't want to address or crack down on bullying.....okay
Right.
Same thing i am thinking
All about money they lose money when were not there
ummmm they definitely did bully is nowhere as bad as it was in the 70,80,90s this not to say bullying is gone that will never entirely be the case but they have been doing a lot which I've seen firsthand.
30 year old here... PREACH!!!!!!
How does putting a parent in jail help get the kid to school? It doesn't. It generates more money from the poor.
and creates more and more systemic & generational poverty.
@@nunyadambusiness3530 that's the goal!
@@nunyadambusiness3530 There is an endgame to this.
The endgame is what is happening in Canada.
Men have been making that argument
concerning child support since forever.
@@chuckscott-cy7iq ah yes, very similar except in this case they go after the mom also.
I had terrible depression and anxiety in the 90s. They barely recognized anxiety and depression back then. I missed a lot of school and I was threatened with being put in a foster home, away from my parents. My dad was an attorney so that was even added pressure. I'd lost a lot of ppl in my life, and to add salt to the wound our basketball team captain died in a car wreck. That was REALLY hard and what made me break down and quit school. Nobody wanted to help me recover and instead the school wanted me to take extra classes because my attendance wouldn't allow me to graduate (I had passing grades). When I did go to school, the teachers were mean to me and took it personal that I missed their class. One teacher kicked me out after taking her exam. She was so offended that I'd missed so much school, she had me removed immediately after the exam and I had no clue what was happening until the guidance counselor told me I was going to another class by force
It's no wonder kids don't want to go to school. The more school you miss, the harder it is to go back. They don't welcome you back with open arms, instead they judge you as this incompetent juvenile that just wants to sleep in
Btw I got my diploma (high school equivalent) in 2020, taking classes and tests right before covid hit
Good job getting your diploma. Perseverance is a great virtue. Bravo!
Congrats on the diploma! Never too late, hope you get your life fully on track.
-A random Canadian
Kids don't want to go to school because they're tired of being treated less than we treat prisoners.
Every adult that caused you problems in that story needs to be arrested!
Repeal all public schools from K through 12
Kids are just numbers for districts and have been for a long time. Each student absent is $50/day lost for the districts, give or take. They care more about profits than they care about the possibility of students not learning while being absent. Failed system.
That’s not true. It varies by state.
Some states fund based on attendance, but many if not most fund based on enrollment.
@@mrsdsparkythat doesn’t make it any better enrollment just means your name has to be on paper. I can be enrolled somewhere and never be present physically. This further proved OP comment that they don’t care about the education it’s all about the money. You can’t stay enrolled forever though if you’re never present they’ll just give the spot to their next cash cow uhh ahh I mean another person
@@dontwatchme-lq1vd you’re a fool.
The school itself doesn’t decide any of these things.
Not true. The reality is that teachers are evaluated based on student performance and it's kind of hard to teach kids who aren't in school. I've got a student who's been absent 15 times so far and he's not in school now for a trip to Georgia. And he plans to miss school around spring break for a cruise. But then the mom freaks out when he fails a test. It's really frustrating.
@@mrsdsparky So you just proved exactly what you said wasn't true as true. Everything in this country is a numbers/quota system, take CPS for example. All it takes is for one kid to say something incorrectly for the state to move in and take the children away, mainly because each child is a massive payout from the state for them to add to their own budget.
The problem with this country overall is middle management getting power hungry, greedy and overinflated.
Amazing that this country thinks incarcerating parents will solve problems instead of causing deeper ones.
The actions of the parents aren’t the main problem. But they are most definitely an aspect
That’s what they want
Divided the family
Access the kids
And brainwash them
Yeah, the government is dumb locking up your parents ain’t going to do nothing
That's how all problems are addressed. Incarceration nation.
This is nothing new. Truant officers have been out in full force during the day making sure kids were in school and the parents were held responsible for generations. This generation just thinks it’s new.
Some of these students are being absent due to bullying which the schools do nothing about. Change your policies.
15 million getting bullied?? If that's the case they'd be homeschooling. I can't imagine a parent just letting their kid stay home learning nothing just because of bullies.
So come up with a solution. There's homeschooling and online schooling; there are options to get away from the bully. Quit with the victim mentality.
@@seanthe100I honestly think way to many excuses are being made for gen z modern society has spoiled these kids now all they want to do is be on Instagram and play video-games
@@seanthe100 i was bullied i could not do homeschool because I am dyslexic It is ok if I failed at school they just gave me d's rather then f's but at home you have to be able to pass their standardized testing
Parents cannot homeschool or online school if they have to work. Bullying is very much a HUGE problem that still isn't being addressed. I would absolutely skip school to avoid being bullied.
Schools address absences more than bullying. In fact, if you address bullying, a lot more kids will actually show up to school
So with Limited Jailed Cells, our Justice System decided it is more importants to jail parents for their kids missing school rather than Violent criminals?
Correct. When you look at every stupid thing this country does from a monetary perspective, it all makes sense. It's easy to fine a single Mother $200 for simply anything and easily get the money from her as she won't have the choice or savings to hire a lawyer or file an appeal, it's a quick couple-hundred for the city/county budget.
america stop targeting the poor working class
But that's where the rich people get their money from!
Taking kids from worthless parents that can't get them to school is the best thing for them
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer what a amazing society
How?@@Typical.Anomaly
@@Typical.Anomalybut they don't care... The rich sees the lower class as livestock than people and treated greed like it's the lower class fault.
This is quite ridiculous. Kids are required to go to school but some can’t get a decent meal there because they have a lunch account balance. If you’re forcing them into a government building all day feed them.
Always someone else's fault isn't it?
In California we do. Not sure where you live.
@@jrod9733Yes it is, it’s actually all there fault and will continue to be there fault until they start getting there act together.
Let me tell you, being in a capitalist society does not let you get away with corruption.
@@almuzaz8582 blah blah blah cry baby victim
@@almuzaz8582 parents fault. They still have to provide food to their child whether they're in a school or in their home. Pretty simple
When I was in Middle School, my grandfather fell gravely ill. My Mom, a widow and an only child of her parents, took us on many trips that year to visit grandpa in the hospital in another state. We took our books with us in the car, and did our work. At the end of the year, our principal spoke with my Mom. He said, "Your daughter has missed so many days this year that the law requires me to fail her; however, she has done more work AND kept a higher grade than any other student in the Middle School, so I'm not going to do that." Truancy laws are unwise. Doing work and learning have nothing to do with sitting in a certain room all year. It's one of the many reasons that, as a parent, I have chosen to homeschool.
A lot of teachers complaining how a student’s absence makes their numbers look bad instead of how sending a kid to school sick makes a parent actually negligent and is not good for the child. Children are getting sick more than during the pandemic because there are no safety precautions for illness and schools insist on students being there.
This is all About money. The school doesn’t get money when kids are out
And since they aren't getting that money. They're getting it from court cost and fines by arresting the parents. Its always about money.
People need to take their kids out of public schools immediately.
Not true. Funding is based on enrollment, not attendance.
@@MrTom-kl7hy try doing a basic google search on topics you know nothing about before telling people they're wrong.
@@MrTom-kl7hyattendance sheet!!
I'm seeing more and more people deciding not to have kids. Society is seriously going downhill. What are the chances kids being born now-days will actually have a good life???
That's a goal
*American society
This country has been collapsing for a while now
That's exactly why their bringing in the new slaves from south the border
When women were introduced to the workforce, they should have lowered the working hours for the average person. Now nobody got time for kids if they're both working.
@@Neyobe and the rest of world sighs a breath of relief knowing that america's time is over. thank god.
After 2020 I no longer care what the government thinks.
Then fight
@@okamijubei lol fight for what? Humans dont have the solution 😂
I've been putting my middle finger in the face of government since this senile chomo took office.
Simple solution to fix this issue: Change the system. Seriously, its past time to embrace self-paced/virtual learning instead of showing up to a broken down building with a class full of other morons whom don't want to be there..
Amen to that.
We need change, and we need it now!!
This is absolutely ridiculous. I am from Texas as well. We took the pandemic seriously and avoided large gatherings. When my toddler started school in 2022/23 he had 13 infections within 3 months. I had to take him to doctor’s office every single time to get a note. The doctor recommended rest/hydration/time for recovery each time. No medication. This was waste of time and resources. There needs to be a middle ground. If a parent is saying their kid is sick with something minor believe them. Let them recover at home.
I grew up getting sick all the time. I could be with someone for 5 minutes and catch what they had, and ten times worse. Looking back on it, there were early signs of a future autoimmune disease, but we didn't know it at the time. I missed school constantly because parents would send their kids to school sick and I'd catch it. Of course when I was little, my mom would take me to the doctor every time for safe measure, but I certainly can't afford to do that now. Most of the time the answer was rest and to stay home from school and not infect others. In middle school and high school, the attendance office tried to crack down on me hard. I had straight A's and never once got in trouble for anything disruptive, and tried to attend school as much as I possibly could since I did enjoy it, but my attendance was still a problem for them. One year we had a two school shooting threats, and so I didn't come, and they decided to count it against me as unexcused. It's insane. I'm glad I'm gone.
There's a solution: safe indoor air for schools.
It's INSANE that we not only are still screwing it up, but that we're also punishing people for sickness.
The air isn't the problem my guy.@@Ariccio123
I have same situation as you, in 2022/2023, my son start preschool. He have been sheltered at home most of his life. In the first 5 months of school, he was sick every other week( 1 week school, 1 week at home). My son likely absent 3 months in his first school year. Things got better after Jan 2023. I was fearful the administration complained but they did not. I would stand up for my son if they did. But for older adult, it could be family situation or young kids get sick that make them absent more than 10 days/school year.
My kid has missed 10 days already. She was not exposed to any of these kid germs before starting kindergarten and now that she is around so many kids she is picking up everything. R.S.V. then covid and she also had an ear infection right at the beginging of the year. It has been rough.
People keep sending their kids to school sick. Some of them probably dont have a choice to work. Then, those sick kids get all of the other kids sick. My kids have gotten sick so many times just this school year. Sent home from the nurse's office several times.
There needs to be some middle ground. Schools want kids at school, but they also want sick kids to be home. They want a doctor's note for every absence but every illness does not require going to the doctor. Not to mention bullying, lack of transportation, and gas. There are so many barriers to attending school.
school sent CPS for my son absence , he miss 10days they where sick days … all in my family where sick 🤒. I told cps worker that I was not spending 4hrs in the doctors office just for a tylenol recipe and a note from the doctor for excuse days for school. that i rather spend that time resting at home, she told me that it was okay to send my son to school sick and with a fever , just to send him with a bottle water and he will be ok…🤦♀️
@arianatoscano9729 That shows CPS doesn’t care about the safety of children. This why everyone keeps getting sick because people send there kids to school sick and then the kids pass it along to the rest of family and their parents go to work sick and so the cycle repeats. I respect your decision to keep your sick child home that CPS worker is terrible.
No one stopped me when I was sick.
And I had no choice. The school I went to and my mom wouldn't let me stay home.
They're more serious about this than gun crimes committed by people who's parents supply the gun
Can you really blame the kids for avoiding school when there are mass shootings constantly???
Those laws need to change
Except there aren't. If I have to go to work then your brat has to go to school.
Let's not forget there's no education but there's plenty of indoctrination and brainwashing
Don't forget bullying when that sort of stuff has been happening more than shootings
@@yunarukami6161There's even fighting and peanks at Morton.
The very high school I used to go to.
Schools should actually focus on improving education, teachers wages and other school issues. They keep this up and a lot more schools will see less teachers and students.
💯 agreed, if your going to put parents in jail you might as well ask them to withdraw their kids out of public school, and put them in virtual or homeschool.
Sad that schools have become more of a curse than a blessing.
Home School. You do not have to send your children to anyone else if you are teaching them and the police can not do anything but scare you out of your rights. Society proves school didn't do anything to help us. Create learning environments at home. A library. Art, math, sewing etc. and let your child have a more natural free schedule. Put the government in their place. Out of your and your children lives.
But perhaps homeschooling shouldn’t necessarily be done by the parents alone, plus, there would be fewer opportunities for kids to socialize.
@@aycc-nbh7289 thats a lie created by predators. A parent/s can plan play dates and field trips for their children, nieces and nephews close friends and one thing you are right about is yes we should have small close friends community groups that we raise our children in. But it is Naturally Primarily the parents job. But scripture tell us it takes a village. We need our own Communities where our children are being brought up in a close nit thrusted nurturing habitat. And then if everyone does that. Children will casually and naturally meet as the parents go about their lives. These lies of we can't change is outrageous. Two weak lame excuses that no one reasoned with. Homeschooling is a excellent place to develop not only strong friendships, but individual identity, and family unit building. I argue that its not only the best option but its the safest and healthiest option. When the parents have hearts for Love. And love Is a being our Father we must Have a relationship with Him to succeed in Anything. America is destroying the world. They need to take that factual credit.
@@aycc-nbh7289Homeschooling does not mean the child is home 24/7 locked away from the outside world. Stop.
Home school your children so that your children are stunted in their development and wind up like tavia
@@Ephesians320.I understand, but there would be fewer opportunities to socialize with people of similar ages to homeschooled kids.
The real question, why is the country forcing kids to go to school?
They want obedient workers. That’s why. Compliant little machines.
@@TehDanceMasterSums up what schools are these days.
People shouldn't face jail time for this.
There is such a shortage of teachers right now due to lack of livable wages, that over half of my 9th grade brothers day consist of study halls. For Science class they've been putting the kids in the gym to just work on homework. I have no faith that increased attendance would help anything. The real issue are how our teachers are paid because no one can afford to take on that career now.
Maybe they should work full time if they want full time pay. Every made up "Holiday" off, Conferences, snow days, all Summer off, add it up.
Growing up, my teachers would always emphasize on returning borrowed utensils when the students didn’t have their own. I never needed to borrow, but growing up and hearing about how little teachers are actually paid do I see why teachers would get upset over there materials going missing
@thefix2573 Give a solid justification why scheduling is the fault of the teachers and why they don't deserve to be a salaried position that pays them throughout the year regardless if they're teaching summer school? Explain to me why the principle of hourly pay is more important to society than our educators receiving a livable wage?
Wrong, there's a shortage because kids are bad.
They are represented, by a Union, so they gave up their voice in exchange for someone else's.
Should I pay the Landscaper in the winter when there's a foot of snow on the lawn? Should I stop and pay for a Big Mac when I didn't order or recieve one? Should I pay my Barber this month even though I didn't get a haircut? I am a finish carpenter, should someone pay me when I haven't worked for a month? Should I start knocking on doors asking for a paycheck from previous clients?
Explain to me why someone should get paid for NOT working? @@TheInstigator32
So you're gonna put 15 Million kids/parts in foster care/jail because they or their parents aren't taking them to school? Lets see how that pans out...
Yes. Because those laws have been on the books for 60 years
So explain to me why you support that, and how you're going to deal with the economic and humanitarian situation that would follow?@@worldofdoom995
Schools be like: Don't send your child to school sick. We don't want them to infect other students!
Schools also be like: You kept your child home sick too many days so now you're going to have a meeting with us and the police department!
Schools also also be like: 5 minutes late counts as a whole day of truancy!
Finally, someone gets it the irony of public schools double standards. This double standards really bothering me for several years and it won't go away until all public schools needs to face negative consequences, or they'll be facing massive closures. Either they'll changed their toxic bs policies, or we as citizens will stop paying taxes for them.
I missed 30+ days due to sickness, when I did come to school they kicked me out of class for coughing. The school threatened to hold me back, not put me into the honors classes for not getting enough classroom time, all while I got perfect Standard of Learning scores.
Can you actually imagine 60 thousand truancy cases clogging the court system as a good thing?!
What clogg? Crime is borderline legal now thanks to democrats.
Why is no one mentioning the obvious elephant in the room? The pandemic made absenteeism normal and even ENCOURAGED.
Public schools fill these kids' heads with garbage anyways. Why would they want to go to school?
This is another reason why public schools are failing our kids. Punishing parent for no good reason.
We've done this since the 1950s. Either get your kid to school or homeschool them.
I have two high school children, but have you talk to these teachers as a parent it not hard to see the disconnection why go somewhere to learn when these teachers are crazy delusional or just don’t care about these kids
Teachers say the same of the students lol
If I recall this has always been a thing, if you miss so many days of school you get in trouble and then you get suspended unless you had excuses from a doctor or something.
Suspended Yes
Not to lock parents up
@@youwish378 Yes what's up with lock parent is totally wrong
It has been a thing for sure. Not sure about the locking parents up. I had to go to court too with my mom when I missed 44 days of school in middle school. But I just remember being threatened with a fine. We had doctors notes on all the absences and avoided it but I can see that this is punishing to the poor… but some parents maybe do need the wake up call that they are parents linked to children they bore…
@@angelinimartini What I don't understand why do that, you can make it up with summer school. Or is summer school not around anymore. That's what they did years ago I mean years ago. IF you missed a lot of school still get suspended but you can make it up in summer school.
@@studiomanhud8945
nah with staffing shortages, there isn't much we can do for them in summertime except try and keep em safe and outta trouble 😮 the older they are, the tougher it is.
Last year, in summer school we had only 3 random teachers. These kids are failing in a wide variety of subjects and need significant time and support. Some are in gangs or the literal man of their homes.
I wish I could teach them all to read, and do geometry but I am only the PE teacher. I cannot undo YEARS of neglect in one summer 😢❤
Sometimes, like I said, the best we can do is keep a kid off the street, spend time with them and give them free sandwiches. 🥲🤝😪
they tell me that I am the most responsible adult they know. I am only 25 myself. Its very sad 😮 im not enough to support them
Need to home school your child these days.
Where at work 8 and a half hours a day plus commute most people don't have that option 😊
@@mikemadsen7926 There's online schooling.
Apparently schools and college campuses aren’t safe places anymore.
Is it any wonder attendance is going down?
If everyone dropped out there would be major education changes it’s time to update the system that doesn’t evolve test scores and student loans to determine your future
Where is the common sense?! Where is the empathy?! This is NOT helping us. This is PREYING on us!
Ive missed probably around 25 days of school this year and the school emailed me saying if i missed a few more theyd hold me back. I have good grades and not struggling at all from my absences. Absolute bs
They want you to keep going so they can keep getting their money, its a joke of a system we live in
Too many parents aren't raising their kids well and those kids are a nightmare to the loved kids.
Ding ding ding!
Being a parent in this system is so unnatural and unappealing and unrewarding
When I taught first grade it was sad to see parents be lazy with taking their children to school. I had parents explain to me that sometimes they wouldn't bring them because the child didn't feel like it. It was sad to see a child with so much potential fall behind in reading because the parent didn't parent.
The schools should not have that much power
The government made the rules
Missing school for a medical reason is an excused absence. There should have been no reason they were brought to court, they should sue.
I understand trying to minimize absent students that just go to Disneyland or something but not parents who have a sick child. My daughter had a rough year. Had an accident, had to have surgery, medical appointments, I tried to get them after school but it's not always that easy. She was able to do all her assignments at home. After the pandemic it made it easier to makeup work remotely.
If school wasn't worthless, more kids would attend. People want value added to their life, not obscure facts that will never help in the real world.
I remembered coughing and told my mom I don’t want to go to school, but my mom told me “no fever and vomiting” I go to school. The many times I had a cough and allergy symptoms I would have had more than 18 absences if my mom allowed me to stay at home just because I didn’t feel like going to school because of a cough.
NBC really misrepresented the real issues of truancy in the US education system with this story, and it really is a shame. The vast majority of school districts are understanding of students, like this kid, who may have an actual health condition preventing them from attending school. Educators are tired of kids simply staying home or wandering the streets in the middle of the school day because parents don’t want to parent. I’m sorry…but it’s the truth. Even if you are a single parent working two jobs, it is STILL your responsibility to make sure your child gets an education. Are we really going to just allow kids to remain absent from school because “they are poor”? If anything, these children are the ones that we need to make sure attend school so they have a chance at a better life. I think jail is extreme, but courts should start ordering parents to send their kids to school.
Well said.
School districts just want your money from attendance to property taxes.
They don't care if the students are learning actually learning anything, are happy or even safe!
School doesn't prepare you for the outside world which is indicated by the fact it indoctrinates.
Why should anyone have to go there with that reason alone?
Parents and students need to be held accountable for their actions and we need to stop blaming teachers for these things. Teachers are blamed for students being absent from their classes ("why were so many students absent? what weren't you doing to MAKE them WANT to come to class?") And this is why there is a teacher shortage, because no one is holding students accountable or responsible for anything. Parents need to accept their fair share of the blame and stop treating teachers like glorified babysitters.
But I mean teachers were actually one of the reasons why I hated going to school
That’s why I homeschool my 4 year old my 13 year old was very sick this year so when u got sick like anyone else I kept him home. I got threatened by a letter saying they’re going to call child protective service on me because I kept my son home for a fever. Homeschool your children.
I understand attendance is important. And that this is geared to kids not attending when they should be there....but my kids caught covid in Sept....that's 5 days out. Then flu in December...another 4 days....then strep..another 2 days
.. Now covid again ....another 5 days. What do you want us to do? Send kids in sick and contagious to spread the germs? To possibly pass covid or the flu to another child who might live with a vulnerable grandparent?? It's a f...ing germ swap in these schools nowadays. And it isn't like years ago, now society has lab created illnesses - such as covid- which are much different than naturally occurring pathogens. No one should be forced to send a sick child who is contagious to school out of fear of going to truancy court. Ridiculous!
This is dumb. What if the student takes advantage and intentionally send their parents in jail
Forced indoctrination or face jail time & fines, so much for a free country.
Former Teacher/administrator/single parent here...all person's who in care of children are mandated reporters meaning we are required by law to make reports of suspicion of abuse. We don't
Investigate but report. Educational neglect is a real problem in America creating a larger lower class and does not creating a competent, competitive society. Before that report is put in, an entire process happens first. First phone calls, attempts at home visits, etc. People get ill but communicate that if it happens because schools don't know. Then, the report is made only after all attempts at contact and resolution are exhausted. DCS then investigates. If they were fined or charged then DCS found reasonable cause to pursue charges, especially if they were convicted and fined. It's not an attack on the poor. it's ensuring that your child has a fighting chance at an ever evolving economy/society. There are only so many fast food and retail jobs, and those require some form of education. I know it's not pleasant to experience it but as a former classroom teacher, it is also very painful to see a child's education not being taken seriously, leaving them in a repeated pattern of poverty.
what about when school isn't a safe place for kids I knew very few kids at school but a lot seemed to know me I was bullied in and out of class and all the teachers ever did was to tell them to stop and sometimes they listened for 5 mins before doing it again I was home a lot because there were days just the thought of going would make me sick to my stomach nerves
I ended up dropping out when I could i studied for a month and got my GED they are easy to get and I am dyslexic
Granted, it's been over 40 years since I've been in school. But in the case of the young man with the stomach ulcer, when I was in school and a prolonged absence was needed for medical reasons, a letter from a doctor was required. Is this not a thing anymore? You can't force someone to go to school if they're too sick to go and a doctor agrees! The same with work. Only with work, they can fire you for missing too much time.
As for the truant ones who AREN'T sick, charge every one of them. Except for the year I had pneumonia, I don't think I missed more than 4 possibly 5 days of school in any given year. Some years not even THAT much.
This is why people with kids are not better or more valuable than people without.
Meanwhile, there are millions of kids who don't attend school AT ALL because their parents decided to "homeschool" them and there is ZERO regulation, oversight, or accountability for those kids or their parents. They don't even have to prove that they're actually learning anything.
Actually there is oversight for the whereabouts of those children.
@@shantelane2553 What agency provides oversight for homeschooled kids and their parents?
Government is already too big when it comes to education.
They need to butt out. Just because things can go wrong doesn't mean they get to have their bureaucratic hands on other people's children.
Also public school is just indoctrination.
Good. They will actually learn and are better in ACT and SAT scores and save taxpayer money.
Why do we ask kids starting at the age of 5 to go to school 5 days a week 8 hours equaling a 40 hour week? I think we should have 4 day weeks and also the last 2 years of high school are pretty pointless
I think this is a good thing. Parents should be held responsible for their kids actions. Just like when they're praised when their child does something good.
As long as the parent(s) keeps in good communication with the school regarding the absences they will have. Then no actions should be taken to the parent(s).
Example, a long illness or injury. If the parent submits a doctor's, excuse from school letter, and the parent and teacher setup a system to get lesson plans so the child doesn't fall too far behind, the parent shouldn't be punished for it.
The same goes if the child needs a short leave to attend or deal with a personal issue. As long as there's communication between the school and patient(s) and doesn't become a recurring theme, then no action should be taken.
In the end, parents are responsible for their child's safety and well-being and if they can't handle that, then they should be, at least, grown-up enough to ask for help. Because doing nothing or pretending that nothing is wrong, will only make things more difficult and harder to fix.
I missed a lot of school because as a girl, I needed to use the bathroom several times per day at certain times of the month but the school limited it to 3, so I just had to miss those certain days repeatedly.
I wouldn't tolerate a second of this. I would sue them for harassment.
Your children belong to the state.
While in China, kids go from 6am to 9pm + homework until 11pm. School guards usually are police and they checking attendance
Not like the rise in school shootings , bullying, threats against fellow class mates , has anything to do with it. School arent school any more , for some parents they treat it like a day care ; and the kids that want to learn get pushed aside.
Too many kids are ditching school and hanging out in the corners doing lord knows what nowadays. Worst of all parents aren't doing a good job parenting their kids.
So I got a letter for my daughter missing 15 days. It’s valid to be concerned over kids missing school. However my child was sick each day but one that she missed. The one day she wasn’t sick was because there were threats made towards local schools. They say you need a doctors note for every day missed to excuse it. Fine but for every fever, every sniffle I have to keep her home. The dr isn’t going to make that cold go away by magic. I have to pay then for medication, co pays and as a visually impaired parent, transportation. Dr bills are a hardship sometimes. If she’s sick enough to need the dr I will spare no expense but for a mild fever and a sore throat I can treat at home I’ll pass on the dr. We will be in school every day she is well. If you want a drs note for everyday missed find a way to help families cover that expense.
And this is why, if I were to ever heaven forbid have children, they would be home schooled. Nothing worse than school districts that think they have more seniority and rights over your child in you as their parents. Unless you're an abusive parent, this is ridiculous.
Like i pushed out my son you expect me not to have more rights over him ridiculous
Maybe those officials should read the literature on the long-term physical and mental health issues in people who have had Covid.
Kids should not be obligated to go to school.
I know right?
Glad some more people are starting to get it.
The towns in the states don't have the numbers. They don't get the money it's all about money
If they don't go to school, they should have a job.
I don't see why they want to force kids who don't care to come to school. I'm not talking about the boy that was sick and had to stay home. I'm talking about the kids who are probably failing anyway and their parents probably don't care about their education. Let them fail. Expell them. Focus on the kids who want to be in school and have goals for their life.
I’m 36 now but when I was in the 8th grade, I missed 56 days of school and my parents didn’t know. It was due to bullying. I went to school and left right after they took attendance in home room. I almost got held back but when my parents found out, they forced me to take Saturday school. They still don’t know why I was absent that many times.
Well, my kid was also 80% more sick after the pandemic so what else should i do but to keep her home? 🤷♀️
They do more to prevent absenteeism than to prevent bullying.
Everyone see the uselessness of the federal education system
Just close public schools down. Public education is the biggest waste of taxpayer dollars.
The USA treats schools as factories to pump out workers. Schools are not places of education, they are places of manufacturing cogs for the machine. We need more schools, more teachers, and SMALLER CLASS SIZES. 1 teacher teaching 40+ kids is such a disservice to the students because there just isnt enough time for students to get quality 1 on 1 help when they need it. It is harder to maintain discipline with that many students. Another big issue is that school administrators are not supporting teachers, they do not want any punishment for behavior because when a student is out of school they lose money. Education needs to stop being seen as a business, it is a service, an essential service for the betterment of society. As for the homeschooling issue, both parents have to work these days. Long gone are the days of a working father and stay at home mother. A simple clerk job in retail used to pay for a car, a home, kids, and medical. You can thank corporate greed for the sellout of the citizens of the USA.
Just do away with schooling requirements. This would also benefit the serious students because they don't have riff raff to hold the class back. For the kids who don't have the motivation to study, put them to work. Win-win for everyone.
If this happened, we would likely see decreases in literacy rates, as well as an increase in people who may be unmotivated to contribute to society. In addition, it would leave massive room for parents to indoctrinate their kids with hateful ideologies and teach them the wrong way about how the world really works.
That makes sense. Because jailing the parents makes sense
Our public educational system is crumbling. Teachers have made students miserable for a long time. No wonder no one wants to go.
Must put Focus on parents to take responsibility for what they have created And be parents, Stoo making excuses and being proud of the fact you are a single parent knowing that this puts your child at a disadvantage ,Your choice you must be held accountable. Don't look to the government or schools to provide for and raise your children.
Just another reason why the education system is broken. If you don’t want kids to be absent, then don’t bore them out to death with sales pitches in class along with letting bullies run amok.
as long the parents call in or the kid is really sick its not there fault
Yea... Seems like all of this could have easily been avoided with a simple doctor's note.
@@laskey2175Right! I wonder if they let them know that he was sick so often and in the hospital. I had a friend who had to have several surgeries one year in high school and he was excused for all of them. A teacher and his mom brought him his school work and he had it completed the next day.
It would have saved so much headache, resources, & taxpayer's money. Instead, people chose to do things to hard way.
Bullying and lack of support were big reasons for me. i can understand why in red states
So if your kid just gets out of school and you don't know about it then you're in trouble? What if you dropped them off and they just skip class?? How is this helping the kids??? And does the missed time affect grades at all or are you just mad kids arent all inside the same cinder block building?
I Will home school my kids
So what, it's not like you actually LEARN anything in school.
You just memorize random facts for a test and then never think about it for the rest of your life.
you actually do learn. its just you don't wanna see that and want to do nothing all day
This is a much bigger problem than kids just not going to school, most of the kids ive known in my life have absolutely no hope for the future, im talking kids under the age of 12 even. I've heard 7-10 year olds who are ALREADY s*i*idal.
Whats the point in education, if that education isn't going to help them achieve anything? If the future of this country is so uncertain even the children are feeling the anxiety?
But yes, throw their support systems into prison because your system is falling apart.
I mean its absolutely disgusting that most of these kids reaching high school cant even RETAIN INFORMATION! Because theyre not being taught phonics, they barely can read in the first place, so how can they be taught AT ALL. The answer is theyre being taught how to pass a standardized test and thats it, and they know it. The problem isn't the symptoms (absenteeism, etc), maybe look at the causes? (Overworked parents, Lack of community support, rising inflation, barely liveable prices, uncertain futures, absolutely no control over their lives)
Its only going to get worse. It's only going to lead to more escaoe in our children, which will sadly include more d*ug use, s*i**de rate increase and crime. Its a horrible, cycle of a problem.
I personally don't like being around more than 10 people at a time because during a certain incident in 2001 the school I was attending at the time decided to bar all parents from picking up their kids and essentially held them hostage in a toi small gym where sardines in a can had more room.
Just more reasons for the government to think they have a right to enter your home. Unbelievable.
We got a letter in 2019 when my son was absent twice for five days due to the flu. 😷 10 days for flu we get a threatening letter!
If a 10 year old is missing school it's the parents fault and they should be held accountable, but if a 15 year old is missing school there is only so much that can be done at that point.
Stop paying taxes if this is all we get. No health care, just prosecution.
I missed most of middle school and highschool. I have two baccalaureates and make the top 10% hourly wage in my state. I am highly skeptical of the modern school system.
The problem is that teachers are forced to reteach curriculum because kids don’t feel like showing up on a certain day. Thats wrong
We homeschool. Avoiding the public school system should be the status quo.
Are you self educated? And just preferred studying on your own?
You had a level of self-motivation and self-discipline that 90% of American kids absolutely DO NOT have. Your story is not representative of reality for most.
I didn't know parents/kids could get jail time for missing school. My cousin dropped out during covid.
This is not new. I worked for the TAOEP more than twenty years ago and part of that job was working with truant youth and their families. Some were taken to court. Those young people are now adults and several are FB friends and are not too upset about that process today.
My son was sick 2x with a really bad cold. Both times required time off from school. This is unacceptable!!
We can't help if our kids get sick and are told to stay home if they have fever or other symptoms. What are we supposed to do?