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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our country needs to stop bending over backwards begging families to send their kids to free schools. If they are absent for no real reason (like most of my students), they should unenroll them. In order to return to school, parents need to actually come to school to talk to admin and teachers about the expectations. The vast majority of students at my school scoring below grade level on assessments year after year are chronically absent.[/quote]

+100. Just make real consequences for this behavior that impact [b]parents[/b] and the nonsense will stop.[/quote]

There are not enough officials to follow up on truancy issues and there is a reluctance to take those parents to court because the cases that most people are worried about, the poor families and the minority communities that tend to be behind academically, are families were they cannot afford to have a parent go to jail or miss work to make sure a kid goes to school. The parents who could be affected by legal actions have the money to fight charges and are more likely the families that take long vacations. And the families that really want to take that month trip to the homeland in January know that they can disenroll their child and then re-enroll their child when they come back. The AP/IB classes that the kid was in will still have that spot if the parents disenroll them in December or January so there is no real risk.

This means any consequences for enforcing attendance problems will end up impacting lower income families  and families of kids who are probably already behind. Not to mention cost a hefty amount to the tax payer to enforce. [b]Realistically speaking, Counties and States moved away from legal penalties because it simply wasn't working[/b]. It might impact the middle class families pulling their kids to go to Disney and on a cruise but it is not going to impact the chronically absent or who trvel for long periods of time. [/quote]

No, that's not why.  It's because we have become progressive and requiring lower income families to follow rules is mean and we don't want to be mean.  Being nice is nicer (even if it harms the children who are the ones who need to be in school for academic and non-academic learning).[/quote]

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