[Starboard]

They are just trying to learn how to be president of the United States. Take lots of time off from your responsibilities and maximize your recreation time.

[Veggie Todd]

"It's a failure of adults on all sides," Drolet said.

No, it's a failure of the parents. The teachers can't teach a kid that isn't there.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Average Detroit High School Student Missed 46 Days of School Last Year

Good, that means he only wasted 134.

[Teacher317]

Johnson said he'd like to see parents of chronically truant students have their food stamp debit card, known as a Bridge Card, taken away or the amount of the benefit reduced.

Starvation to enforce Leftist economics (schools get tax dollars based on attendance)... the Liberals in the US are trotting out every historical lethal Communist control they can think of lately!!

[grumpygresh]

Less indoctrination, so what’s the problem.

[Deagle]

Why are Urban schools failing? Why are urban Governments failing? Why do we have to continue to ask these questions when we know the answer?

[IYAS9YAS]

Okay, we have the mean. What are the median and mode? Averages can be skewed by one student missing nearly all the days and a bunch of students missing only a few.

[SharpRightTurn]

“Average Detroit High School Student Missed 46 Days of School Last Year”

Aren’t most Detroit students getting 3 free meals a day at school, courtesy of taxpayers?

Where are they eating those other 46 days? Do the Detroit school officials not “care about the kids”? They should drag the truants in and make them eat the government cheese.

[Teotwawki]

Here in Tennessee if your kid misses too many days, the parent(s) are likely to end up in jail. Happened with my grandson. He didn't miss 46 days, but he was a few over the limit. Some were his mom's fault, some poor record keeping at the school, but mostly it was a split custody issue where the dad didn't return my grandson on time from California after the breaks. The dad couldn't bear to say goodbye and would keep my grandson over a few days to a week extra. So my daughter ends up before a judge who orders her to sever paternal visitation rights or face 10 days in jail.

I've seen too many kids without dads in their lives. Here we have a dad who loves his son and is good for him, but some judge is going to sever that completely for a few days of government schooling. Maybe the absenteeism needs to be addressed, but it isn't worth promoting more fatherless children.

[pallis]

And those were the smart ones.

[Cyman]

I don’t know why but this figure is absolutely stunning to me.

[mreerm]

46 out of how many?
46 out of 46 = one conclusion
46 out of 365 = different conclusion
please supply the relevant facts

[GeronL]

How do you miss 46 days and pass?

I assume the average kid actually passed.

I could be really dumb for that.

[GeronL]

said the school district must provide a safe environment

That's not going to happen either.

[ToastedHead]

“Johnson cited the statistic while discussing the problems teachers face while being evaluated when students are not coming to class.”

Lol! They couldn’t care less about the kids, it’s the teacher evaluations that they think aren’t fair.

[bikerman]

Hey! Give them a break, playing Midnight Basketball you’re to tired in the morning to get an education. Shorten school hours would solve the problem/ s

[motor_racer]

Most of the union contracts around here prohibit any action to be taken at all against an employee until he has missed more than 20% (sometimes more!!!) of his scheduled time without excuse.

The teachers are union, why should the students be different?

[logitech]

Since the kids are not going to school, just eliminate the manditory part. Let them figure it out on their own.

We’ll call it freedom to choose or on the job training.