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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You could have a security guard for every student in the building, but that won't stop them from leaving (or insert any pervasive behavior that's common in the school) if there are no consequences for doing so. Security doesn't even attempt to stop behaviors beyond telling them to get to where they need to go if security knows there's nothing that will be done about it at admin level.

If a school has a rule, a school has to be willing to enforce it. And that's where the breakdown is. Kids see that others leave without  consequence, so they start to leave too because all there friends are and nothing's happening, so why not? [/quote]

[b]A school can only enforce rules with parents support[/b].  Most schools doing involve parents and keep them at arms length and some parents just ignore or approve of behavior like this.  This goes through the police and courts.  All a school can do is suspend or expell a child for skipping school.[/quote]
This is a blatant lie. For example, MCPS is enforcing the 10-day, consecutive absence leading to automatically unenroll students policy that it's implemented to manage its chronic absenteeism numbers despite many parents not being in favor of it.

MCPS enforces the rules it wants to, often against parents' wishes, if it believes it suits its own interests. MCPS does not care what parents want or think. It is beholden only to the principal and teachers' unions.[/quote]
PP is this true about the 10 day consecutive absence unenrollment policy?  What is happening to the students who are unenrolled?  [/quote]

Yes it's true.  I have lost 5 kids off of my IEP caseload just in the first semester because of it.  The students basically are treated as dropouts but are allowed to be re-enrolled by a parent.  The tricky thing is it has to be 10 total absences.  If they show up for 1 class it doesn't count and it starts over again.  It takes awhile to actually do the unenrollment because inevitably there will be a teacher who forgot to do attendance or mistakenly marked a kid present.[/quote]

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