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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents don’t care. Period. I have 12 kids who had over 26 absences each in quarter 1. It’s time for a mirror.[/quote]

Actually, some of us parents do care.  A lot.  And your comment is offensive.  As a teacher and a parent myself, I detest hearing a colleague generalize about parents this way.  Most are doing the best they can and many are as frustrated with their kids as you are.

My senior has the body of a grown man.  Maybe he is one of the students you teach.  He hates school.   I can’t pick him up and carry him to school the way I did in elementary.  I asked the school what kind of support they have for truancy in light of the fact MCPS is making attendance a “priority” this year and was told “well, get him here and we’ll talk to him”.  How? Nobody ever has an answer.

It doesn’t help that any student who completed Algebra 1 in 8th grade as well as the tech, art, and PE requirements by the end of junior year are only required to pass English class senior year to graduate.  He can fail everything else but as long as he has a D in English, across the stage he goes in June.  Thanks MSDE!  If MC is your plan for next year, and they admit everyone with a high school diploma, motivation to pass other classes isn’t there.  Oh - and thank you to MCPS  for their brilliant grading system - if a student receives an E quarter 1 but a D quarter 2, they pass for the semester because they show a “positive trajectory”.  So, quarter 2 and 4 must be passed in English senior year, quarters 1 and 3 don’t matter. Parents can’t compete with these ridiculous realities.  We ground him, we have taken away the car, we stopped paying for the cell phone bill - in the end he knows the game MCPS and MSDE are requiring he play and he is going to do just enough to graduate.

His decisions keep us up at night worrying about his future.  At the same time, as bad as the school situation is, he has held a job for more than 2 years and is beloved by his managers and paid an adult salary because he is such an asset.  So in the work world, he is thriving and proving he is responsible.  At this point, we just want to make it to graduation and put this horror show behind us.  [/quote]

Why in the world would you keep your son in such an educational environment? My kid was a "do the bare minimum" and collect my A kind of kid in ES. I switched him to private school in MS and that straightened him up. It took a few years for him to adjust to actual high expectations, not like the ones the public schools claim to have. I'm glad I did. Nobody else is going to help you kid except you.[/quote]

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