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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]Haven't read all of these pages, but can one of the pro-legislation people help me understand how the law would handle this scenario?

A parent has a kid who didn't log in or participate in school at all last year. They're sadly uninvested in their child's education, and they don't send their kid to school or participate in virtual. How does the legislation prevent this type of neglect?[/quote]

I'm not pro-"this portion of the legislation" but they'd tell you that the school could just say no to those parents.  So the onus is still on the school to decide who is good or bad.  With some mystery rubric.[/quote]

Oh, is there a mechanism for that? I'm not being like a "citation please" person, but I would like to read that part of the legislation. [/quote]

Read the first post of this thread.[/quote]

I did look through it but didn't see that part. Admittedly, I am not great at reading legal-ese, so maybe it just didn't jump out at me.[/quote]

"Further, students whose families who have made the choice to keep them home due to concerns around the safety of the school environment and school buildings [b]should be able to receive an excused absence from their school[/b]. The bill grants the school the ability to provide this excused absence through January 15, 2022."[/quote]

The school can grant the excused absence or not.[/quote]

this quote doesn't establish a rubric or even provide grounds through which the school could say no.[/quote]

doesn't it?  If the school can provide the excused absence, can they also withhold the excused absence?

I agree it doesn't provide a rubric for why they would or wouldn't grant the excused absences, and that alone is a problem.  But it does seem to allow them to just say "no".[/quote]

This poster must be deeply ignorant or has never seen parents go bananas when a school “just says no” with no statutory back up. Lawsuit time. Discrimination! racism! prejudice![/quote]

So you admit that schools can reject these "requests" (they don't really seem to be requests), just that they won't want to because parents are whiny a$$holes?  (I grant this is reasonable.)

What about the flip side where if a school DOES allow these excused absences, and a child is abused and killed as a result?  Are they concerned about the liability there?

Look, I'm deeply opposed to this portion of the legislation.  I'm just wondering what could be done, and whether schools still retain the power to protect kids.[/quote]

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