How often is your teen late to class?

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Anonymous wrote:^ if they are driving to school or riding a bike, make them ride the bus. That is about the only main consequence I’d do.

Not all students have a bus option. If my son rode his bike, it would probably take a few hours.

How do they get to school if they don’t take the bus or ride a bike? Are you driving them? They get up and go earlier if you take away their car.

I drive him so he’s never late.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine have never been late, though my second kid will probably be late once she starts walking to high school (she has a bus to middle).

I can’t imagine not caring about kids being late. Maybe it’s because I’m a teacher, but the kids who come in late miss so much. Not only that they are just not settled into working when it’s time.

I get that some kids have other things going in their lives that are more important to worry about, but otherwise, it seems like a skill that’s important to teach. My second kid has adhd and is seriously time blind, but she also has alarms set so she doesn’t miss her bus…

Only if the material is challenging and not a rehash of what they already know. My child takes AP Calc BC, AP Physics C and APUSH very seriously. She never misses unless she's genuinely sick. Honors Spanish 5 is *easier* than her Spanish 4 class of last year, and honestly it's making her worry about AP Spanish next year. She could miss a ton of those without consequence. Honors English 10 is a complete joke and she reads in class (after reading the assigned books, doing her work, and while the teacher is still blathering on at a snail's pace). Likewise, she's learned nothing from this class.

You don't understand how some classes are just... not informative, my dear Teacher. Some are actually a waste of students' time.

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Anonymous wrote:Frequently, for her first period classes. Never for the others. I'm the one that drops her off so am aware, and I don't have a problem with it.

Why don’t you have a problem with it?

The reason she is late is because she stays up late to teach herself the material that should be taught in class, but is not. That’s an extra 4-5 hours a day most days (sometimes longer), which is exhausting. I’m good with her sleeping in a little or being slow to get out of bed and being late a few minutes to a class where she learns nothing.

hahahhahahhaha mama's getting played like a fiddle

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Never.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine have never been late, though my second kid will probably be late once she starts walking to high school (she has a bus to middle).

I can’t imagine not caring about kids being late. Maybe it’s because I’m a teacher, but the kids who come in late miss so much. Not only that they are just not settled into working when it’s time.

I get that some kids have other things going in their lives that are more important to worry about, but otherwise, it seems like a skill that’s important to teach. My second kid has adhd and is seriously time blind, but she also has alarms set so she doesn’t miss her bus…

Only if the material is challenging and not a rehash of what they already know. My child takes AP Calc BC, AP Physics C and APUSH very seriously. She never misses unless she's genuinely sick. Honors Spanish 5 is *easier* than her Spanish 4 class of last year, and honestly it's making her worry about AP Spanish next year. She could miss a ton of those without consequence. Honors English 10 is a complete joke and she reads in class (after reading the assigned books, doing her work, and while the teacher is still blathering on at a snail's pace). Likewise, she's learned nothing from this class.

You don't understand how some classes are just... not informative, my dear Teacher. Some are actually a waste of students' time.

I would argue that there is value in getting students used to dealing with the more mundane aspects of life I would expect that their first job after college will have quite a few tedious aspects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frequently, for her first period classes. Never for the others. I'm the one that drops her off so am aware, and I don't have a problem with it.

Why don’t you have a problem with it?

The reason she is late is because she stays up late to teach herself the material that should be taught in class, but is not. That’s an extra 4-5 hours a day most days (sometimes longer), which is exhausting. I’m good with her sleeping in a little or being slow to get out of bed and being late a few minutes to a class where she learns nothing.

hahahhahahhaha mama's getting played like a fiddle

Not really. One of her teachers posts videos of her lessons. I know parents of kids in the others. DD is doing fine in the classes but that has zero to do with the teachers. She would be better off skipping them all and studying at home but that is unfortunately not an option.

Her teachers are all nice people, but mostly, terrible at their jobs.

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Just a small handful of times: due to bad traffic- not him. Drives into DC.

My sons were disciplined about getting to school on time. I think after 3 tardues you serve detention.

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* tardies

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First kid dd- never late to my knowledge. Second kid DS - happened a lot senior yr, enough that we got a warning from assistant principal about graduation requirements etc and he was on some kind of special watch list for awhile - magically found his ability to be on time again