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Anonymous wrote:Be honest with yourselves now you can't always blame the parents. Some YOU CAN some do know that their kids may not be going to school each day or hooking class but the others of parents who make sure their kids go to school or literally drop them off and watch them walk in the building how would you really know. And ask yourself how many off you parents as kids not went to school or cut school without your parents knowing what happened. It takes a village to raise kids now and nowadays some adults don't want to get involved because some of these kids may threatened them or harm them because of the lack of respect the kids have.

Actually, this one is easy. I'm now getting a call every time my kid is marked absent from even just a period. No excuse on that front! Sure, some may have missed the boat telling their kids off or may be altogether absent even receiving those calls. Then it's up to the authorities and the rest of us to step it up. Still no excuse. However, what's important to keep in mind before screaming "lock them out" or "lock them up" is that research shows - for a vast majority of them - criminal behavior is a phase. Not one should be shrugged at but one that needs to be treated as something in passing and in need of redirection, not mass incarceration and further criminalization. If we don't get that, then we'll actually help perpetuate the problem.

Anonymous wrote:Be honest with yourselves now you can't always blame the parents. Some YOU CAN some do know that their kids may not be going to school each day or hooking class but the others of parents who make sure their kids go to school or literally drop them off and watch them walk in the building how would you really know. And ask yourself how many off you parents as kids not went to school or cut school without your parents knowing what happened. It takes a village to raise kids now and nowadays some adults don't want to get involved because some of these kids may threatened them or harm them because of the lack of respect the kids have.

Anonymous wrote:Be honest with yourselves now you can't always blame the parents. Some YOU CAN some do know that their kids may not be going to school each day or hooking class but the others of parents who make sure their kids go to school or literally drop them off and watch them walk in the building how would you really know. And ask yourself how many off you parents as kids not went to school or cut school without your parents knowing what happened. It takes a village to raise kids now and nowadays some adults don't want to get involved because some of these kids may threatened them or harm them because of the lack of respect the kids have.

Anonymous wrote:DCPS could use the WMATA records of their travels as proof of truancy. Not all of the students are angelically going to any from their many internships and volunteers work.

Doesn't excessive truancy eventually involve CPS and the parents? And wouldn't it be good, if the parents are checked-out, to get those wrap-around services to the students who need them?

Anonymous wrote:While I agree action should be taken, locking kids out of metro would not be feasible. Many kids have internships or other legitimate reasons to use metro during the school day.