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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can think of at least 2 students last year that missed a month of school to visit family out of the country. One was in Africa and the other in South America. So would MCPS now unenroll them?

Also, what happens once these kids are unenrolled? I’m thinking of the many moms of MS boys that say “I can’t control him” and their son misses 65 days of school. There is no phone call or home visit that will get that kid to school.[/quote]

Then he and his mom will get locked up. Truancy charges are real.

A mom that says she can't control her adolescent son is not in control and as the adult in the equation, she has to be. If she's afraid of her own child or she has abdicated all power to a 13, 14 or 15 year old, then she's failed as a parent.

If dad is not in his life, call in an uncle, cousin, grandparent, neighbor, coach, pastor, SOMEBODY.[/quote]

Those people have their own kids and lives to manage. Are you volunteering to be foster parent?

Yay, you are morally superior. She failed as a parent. Now that you have condemened her, the child will magically teleport to school. [/quote]

What's your solution then, genius? The status quo where the school looks the other way and allows chronically absent students to show up when they feel like it?

You hate consequences cause they're mean, you poke holes in any proposed solution as being unrealistic, but you offer no viable way forward. So what's good? Are you just here to be a naysayer to everything? Does that make [i]you[/i] feel morally superior to a bunch of anonymous people on an online forum?

Get a life.[/quote]

Is it full moon already?
The selfawarewolf rises in  this one. [/quote]

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