Wow. Make the parents, in some small way, responsible for their children. It is about damned time.
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"Wow. Make the parents, in some small way, responsible for their children. It is about damned time."
While I agree with your sentiment, I don't agree with the policy. So the dog pukes on my pants and shoes, now I have to change clothes and clean up the mess, now we are late for school, I am late for work, and the school is going to tell me I have to go to detention. Sorry, ain't happening.
How about I make the teachers come to my house for detention every time the tell my child something incorrect, fail to grade homework, or forget to send a note home with my child. Sh!t happens. The school needs to get over itself.
And its being met with such resistance. Somehow, adminstrators are supposed to improve things with wishful thinking. Everybody here bitches about public schools, but when steps are taken to improve them, they just switch to bitching about that. Personally, I think they should just lock the doors at the designated time, and let the parents figure out what to do with their kid for the day.