> I REALLY want to see where THIS thread goes. <
LOL. Conservatives are all about enforcing reasonable laws. And truancy laws are reasonable. But I guess an exception is made when the enforcer is someone we don’t like.
No, they are not. Today's schools are nothing about teaching how to think, and everything about teaching what to think.
Well I am Uber conservative and frankly if they don’t want to go to school then as far as I’m concerned that’s just fine with me.
Chronic truants are never going to learn anything in school and they’re going to do nothing but disrupt it for the few children that are interested in learning. And on top of all of that the schools are teaching nothing anyway except adherence to the state and socialism.
Here’s a little clue about why the state in the school systems are so concerned having morons attend school everyday. It’s all about money. Every time one of these kids doesn’t come to school the school district losses Federal money which is based on attendance days. They don’t give a damn whether these kids learn to walk upright and wipe their own butts. As long as they get those federal dollars.
I dealt with these idiots for several years when my daughter was in high school after she had been home-schooled. The school wouldn’t let her take allergy medicine at school so whenever her sinuses bothered her I let her stay home. She missed 14 days in her junior year and I was called on the carpet by the fascist bureaucrats at the school. I pointed out why she was home, I also pointed out that she was a straight-A student in all advanced classes and what did they think she was missing? They tried to claim that I couldn’t know if she was home, and I pointed out that I had an office at home and was well aware of where she was.
I suggested that their time might be better spent going after kids who missed 50 to 100 days a year who gave the schools fake addresses and the schools didn’t even know where they lived and were failing everything rather than a scholarship student. They dropped the whole matter.
Prosecuting the parents of high school students who are truants is completely stupid and even more ineffectual.
LOL. Conservatives are all about enforcing reasonable laws. And truancy laws are reasonable. But I guess an exception is made when the enforcer is someone we don’t like.
No, truancy laws are not reasonable. We need an end to compulsory attendance and to get government out of education altogether. Kids forced to be in school do not learn. All of this force is about one thing - the education establishment, money, power, and teachers’ unions. Privatize education at all levels, let parents decide on their child’s education, and in cases where there is truly neglect, then the government can intervene. The reason the society in schools resembles that of prison is because they are prisons. Very little actual learning takes place in schools. They are designed to provide subsidized babysitting for working parents and to keep people out of the workforce for as long as possible for the benefit of unions.
The concept of public education was horribly flawed from its enception.