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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m of a different view. By high school, [b]it’s time to learn natural consequences[/b]. The kids who are driven & care about school will show up. The kids who are lazy & don’t care, won’t show up. No sweat of anyone’s back except the kids. In college nobody is going to monitor their attendance everyday.

That said, I am more inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to absenteeism at Kennedy than I am at BCC because Kennedy kids are more likely to be facing issues such as unstable housing, lack of transportation, lack of having their own cars if they miss the bus, having to stay home to watch siblings, hunger etc. [/quote]

But that's the point: MCPS has taken away natural consequences. They just turn a blind and endlessly extend deadlines and allow multiple retakes. So screwing around loses any natural consequences to it.[/quote]

I think it's ok to do multiple retakes but my only issue is kids don't put in the effort the first time.  Here's an idea.  As a parent, you monitor things and have expectations.  Everyone blames MCPS but where are the parents?[/quote]

I do as a parent. But then my kid fights me for having expectations that they should take the test seriously the first time because the message they're getting from the school and the teachers is that it doesn't matter because they can turn in the assignments before the end of the marking period and come in during lunch or after school and retake the test as many times as they want.

A parent's standards can't compete with the messaging of the system.[/quote]

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