Bring Back Loss of Credit for Skipping Class!

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Anonymous wrote:how does one suggest it? Would be great if he brought this back.

Instead, advocate to state officials to allow students to drop out at 15. If they don't want to be in school, let them go.

I’m a teacher and I agree with this. We rarely had kids drop out who were college ready. The ones who did were years and years behind Roth no chance of catching up. Ex: 9th and 10th graders reading on elementary levels. If you looked into their attendance records, the story was clear. They missed 1/3 to 1/2 of nearly every school year since starting school. These kids are better off being taught a trade and earning money from the beginning.

Can’t learn a trade unless you show up for the training

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Wootton is awful at this. No consequences. The kids leave and return at will.

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Fire some teachers. That will show those violent kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Since when is 50% passing?

Where have you been? We can’t give zeroes. It will hurt their feelings. Besides, they might not be white or might have ADHD.

This says it all.
--teacher

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Anonymous wrote:What has mcps done this school year to mitigate students skipping class? When driving to work mid morning, will see students outside or they'll be gathered at a local coffee place. Not sure if those days happen to be a different schedule at school or it's a regular for students

Nothing. MCPS has done nothing. At my school, the problem is as bad as ever. We end up just passing the kids because no one knows what to do with them.

Do they still send out "your kid was absent today" calls or messages? If they still do, can they continually send those messages to guardians until guardian excuses student for that day?

Automatic emails, yes.

I stopped getting those this year for whatever reason.

There are reports of some students blocking the number on their parents phone.

It's been going on for 10+ years at my DCC school.

[Anonymous]

Alot of time the stakeholders can complain about nonsense to by pass the rules and laws by threatening a teachers career. Many educators make poverty wages and they need their job to eat food and have a roof over their head. When parents and students mess with their career they will be more willing to change grades. The u ion and admin off no support.

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MCPs decided a few years back that if you don’t hold the students accountable for attendance, the public and the parents cannot hold them accountable for results. This happened on or around 2018. And we’ve been living with it ever since. It’s not about kids with corrupt leadership, it’s about lack of accountability. A constant in this system since then.

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MCPS doesn’t do anything punitive anymore. Only a restorative justice circle to find out the reasons why you might be skipping.

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Get the riffraff out of these schools early I say. We know at 12-13 who is going to be one of these truants in high school. If their parents can’t bother to teach them how to act in school then maybe the kids need to spend a lot of time at home with their parents and maybe their parents can use that time to teach them how to act. Expel them early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a big fight at Sherwood that included kids who aren’t students there.

And a different student showed up to school with a knife today.

^^^
I’m more concerned about that sort of thing.

The reality is the kids go bananas in middle school and the adults lose control. If they maintained order and discipline in middle school, perhaps they could enforce it in high school?

If all else fails, send in the nuns ;0)

Omg. The irony. Where did the fight occur? Most likely the bathroom or the football field…. When / where kids are SKIPPING CLASS!!!

Don’t people understand that attendance is a safety thing too? If kids are in class, they are less likely to be doing things that they shouldn’t be doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wootton is awful at this. No consequences. The kids leave and return at will.

Was it like this pre-pandemic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPs decided a few years back that if you don’t hold the students accountable for attendance, the public and the parents cannot hold them accountable for results. This happened on or around 2018. And we’ve been living with it ever since. It’s not about kids with corrupt leadership, it’s about lack of accountability. A constant in this system since then.

This makes a lot of sense

[Anonymous]

How can we get this back? Is there still a strong movement against it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can we get this back? Is there still a strong movement against it?

Yes. That movement is alive and well in OSSI.

[Anonymous]

What is OSSI? Also, can we elevate this to Dr Taylor?