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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does it motivate parents? If it’s a hassle to re-enroll, won’t they just let Junior move on without school

The second goal you mention is just about getting around publishing unpleasant data. That can’t be a stated goal.

I’m still confused. [/quote]

Do you really think a child who is unenrolled from school and not reenrolled elsewhere won’t have consequences?

You’re either too ignorant to engage in the conversation and need to educate yourself before you ask questions so they can be rooted in some foundational level of understanding, or you’re playing dumb to question the policy in a passive way.[/quote]

I am trying to educate myself. I’ve researched the MD state rules on expulsions, the MCPS attendance policy, and asked here. What education would be useful? What consequences does a family or child face from being unenrolled?[/quote]

Several posters in this thread spelled it out for you. Even in numbered bullet form. READ.[/quote]

You should educate yourself. According to Maryland law. Only parents with children aged 15 or younger can be held responsible for not enrolling their children in school. Again, I fail to understand how this policy achieves any goals. Except making data look better, perhaps?

Legal Consequences
Any person with legal custody or care and control of a child who 5 years old or older and under 16, who fails to see that the child attends school or receives instruction as required by Maryland law, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

https://www.peoples-law.org/truancy[/quote]

I believe past 16, they will put an ankle monitor on the kid and they’ll be tracked by the truancy officers.

So I think from 16-18, more of the consequences for not going to school starts to fall on the kids themselves and not just the parents, but there are consequences. I know this because there were a few truant kids in my kids’ high school who had the monitors on due to excessive skipping.
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Which school?

And were the kids from affluent families?

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DCC high school. Kids weren’t from affluent families, but some were average middle class. Some of them might have been low-income, but the I don’t know each kid’s individual story.[/quote]

White?

Latino?

Black?

Asian?

Was it Kennedy? The data provided compared Kennedy a few decades ago to now, and that area had a dramatic shift in demographics. [/quote]

Yes. It was Kennedy and yes, it was a mixture of black and Latin kids.

But how does this change the conversation about whether or not there are consequences for truancy?[/quote]

Since I went down a research rabbit hole, it’s obvious to me that shifting demographics are fueling new issues or exacerbating issues that used to impact a tiny subset…yet mcps is (unsurprisingly) taking a widespread approach that will (let’s face it) unnecessarily worry the good parents while the checked out parents simply won’t care.

It’s not surprising that certain kids at Kennedy are on ankle monitors. Some of the Latino kids don’t even have parents in the country. They are here to work and send money home. Why should mcps perseverate over serving these kids if they have zero interest in school? I hope they actually take the bold step of kicking them out of school if they create problems or rarely show up.

This is a big issue in certain schools…and we know why. But instead of hammering the nail, mcps has opted to use a sledgehammer. [/quote]

Truancy is a big problem at Kennedy and some of the demographic issues you raise do apply, but it’s also a problem at schools with majority white populations too, like B-CC: https://bcctattler.org/3237/opinion/not-so-great-expectations-a-feedback-loop-sending-b-cc-in-a-downward-spiral/

[QUOTE] Another B-CC parent who also wishes to remain anonymous said, “If my child has a good grade in the class and isn’t going to miss anything in the class, then I’m okay with them not going.” As for the rationale behind this, she explained, “It’s honestly the culture kind of in the area. Kids take hard classes and do well in them but just don’t go to all their classes.”[/QUOTE]

So while schools with black and brown students may have higher absenteeism rates, it is a problem in white schools too, particularly as some parents enable or overlook their kids skipping class because there are no consequences for doing so or their kids are doing well enough in the class, so they don’t see the harm.[/quote]

Disagree.

They cherry-picked a soundbite so they could say it isn’t just a black and brown poor thing. Letting a straight A student skip a day to recover from or prepare for rigorous exams, etc. isn’t an issue in need of intervention.

It’s ridiculous to equate many dozens of poor kids with horrible grades who routinely skip and have checked out parents with the kids taking multiple AP classes who headed to college in a year or so.

The latter will graduate and go on to college. They don’t present a threat to our community or economy.

The former? That’s a different story. That’s the problem in need of a solution. [/quote]

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