Posted on 04/10/2024 12:41:01 AM PDT by KingofZion
So free breakfast and lunch won’t entice them to come to school. Attach free and reduced lunch to attending school.
Maybe if they had free pot they’d show up.
Here’s the problem to solve for: A poor product in the public schools and poor parenting and no respect for rules, regulations and laws.
Simple ‘fix’: Elim the welfare state. Don’t want to utilize a service, don’t pay...then, @ least, the taxpayers aren’t ‘on the hook’
Otherwise, FINE the parent(s). Taxpayers ARE ‘on the hook’ & should get their $ back.
Sounds like they should cut teacher’s pay in half if they are only servicing half the students taxpayers are paying for.
And, all this DGag will do is get the criminals back into class. The ones teachable will stay away — hopefully in homeschool.
Exactly. Why better yourself when your future is tied to a welfare check.
Only 1/2? Have you SEEN their output’s TEST scores?
Such rampant ghosting is often rooted in feelings of hopelessness.
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From what I’ve seen it’s rooted in sociopathy. The kid is so spoiled he doesn’t go to school because he simply doesn’t want to and mommy doesn’t make him go. It’s more fun to sit home and play video games while mommy feeds him.
It could be too a percentage don’t want to deal with the violence, chaos and depravity of the San Francisco school district.
It's not your average high school. It is an alternative school for kid who already can't handle a regular classroom.
https://www.sfusd.edu/school/ida-b-wells-high-school
“As a continuation high school with predominantly Black, brown and low-income students, Ida B. Wells...”
The name of the school is also a bit of a ‘tell’. If we name it after black person, black kids will be more likely to behave and learn. As if the kids involved know or care who or what Ida B. Wells was.
States have been raising the drop-out age for the last several years. The real reason is I suspect to ‘keep the kids off of the streets’. Yes, the absence of butts in seats does cost the district funding, but forcing unwilling kids into an institution makes the institution a prison for those kids and they treat as a prison. None of this is good for what should be the real goal of schools, education.
Imagine being a teacher in such a place. Only the most naive would actually want to teach in such a place or someone finds himself assigned there and is desperate for work.
And why does the b in black rate a capital letter but the b in brown does not?
Or just a school that has low enrollment. There are high schools in Chicago where there are more staff than students. Sometimes the school is left open to provide employment for the staff. The best interest of the students does not appear to be the highest priority.
A novel approach was suggested by a retiring school superintendent back in the 70s. He proposed that all students be given the option of staying out of school for a semester after age 16 without formally dropping out. Every semester they could choose to come back.
The benefits of this would be having mostly students in school who wanted to be there to learn. A second benefit is that students who dropout at 16 would find out that working in a job with few skills or education does not pay very much nor provide much of a path forward. Forcing older teens to stay in school just ruins it for everyone else.
Taxpayer funded school choice would eliminate a lot of the problems we see today in public school education. It seems that only conservatives want to eliminate those problems.
“Ida B. Wells High School”
She would be so proud. /sarc
“...Federal dollars are tied to attendance...”
I wonder how many are “ghost pupils?” Penciled in pupils for more fed dollars??
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