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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what you get when you have unmotivated students from poor families. You think this is happening at Whitman or Churchill?[/quote]

Sooooo my kid goes to Churchill and it's true that kids are pretty on the ball and the classroom culture is pretty conducive to learning. Part of that is that the principal and most teachers actually enforce things like the cell phone policy and wearing lanyards.

But on the rare occasion that I am dropping my kid off at 7:44 or 7:45, there are still a lot of kids in the drop off line. I think 1st period it's pretty typical to have kids roll in 5-10 minutes late. Not good. But it happens.

[b]Part of it is that Churchill has kids with means, for the most part, so they have their own cars or friends with cars or parents who have the time and/or flexibility to get them to school on time. They don't (generally) have to care for siblings or work PT jobs that make them exhausted in the way that physical labor does. So yeah. It's definitely an equity issue.[/b] [/quote]

Was just coming to post this. Having parents with the flexibility to drop off kids and/or means (we've had to Uber our kid a few times) is definitely a piece of this. [/quote]
+1   I grew up as a latch key kid since 8. Had to get myself to school on time.  If I didn't go to school, my parents would've beat me.  As a matter of fact, my middle sibling ditched school all the time.  They got bad grades, and yes, beat up a few times.

My parents were too busy working ow wage blue collar jobs to make sure we fed ourselves or got to school on time.

I woke up with my kids to make sure they got to school on time.  By senior year, they could drive themselves with my car since I wfh.

I can imagine that for kids who are not motivated and don't have parental supervision at home to help them get to school on time, such kids could easily fall through the cracks.[/quote]

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