Comments on: Behind push against truancy/absenteeism: unions’ money hunt

By: Brad Strong

Brad Strong — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 21:34:14 +0000

Respectfully, this is a pretty absurd take. This package is focused on systems and supports to improve attendance, not on increasing criminal sanctions. In fact, the Attorney General and attendance advocates just helped pass legislation banning incarceration for youth adjudicated as truants (SB 1296 – Leno) which was signed by the Governor in June. Attendance efforts are about making sure kids are in school so they can succeed. Schools do lose money when children are absent (excused or unexcused) and it is a worthy reminder to elevate for for schools and communities that they benefit when they make the investments in the teachers, counselors, early warning systems and supports needed to improve attendance. I don’t believe raising the loss of $1.4 billion conveys the motive implied above.

By: Donkey

Donkey — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 05:11:55 +0000

In reply to SoCalSteve. Maybe if the schools worked the kids would want to be there SoCalSteve, but what we have now at many schools is closer to "Lord of the Flies" than a learning environment. I read that less than 50% graduate from the LAUSD, that reads as a complete failure in the private sector, but not the RAGWUS. :)

By: Queeg

Queeg — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 04:31:25 +0000

Maybe they do not come for the learning experience is wanting.

We already know the food is bad for children…..why go somewhere daily that doesn’t work!

By: SoCalSteve

SoCalSteve — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 01:07:15 +0000

Unbelievable! Even as noble an effort as trying to stop blatant absenteeism in our schools is painted as just another plot. It is wrong to be absent from school. It means you learn less, and it also wastes taxpayers’ money. But of course that doesn’t matter when you can cook up another Democratic “conspiracy.”

By: Donkey

Donkey — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:30:04 +0000

Activate the Prison Industrial Complex to chase down truants and their parents. The RAGWUS feeders will do anything for numbers, which translated into tax dollars in their pockets.
How about the district buys a few drones with air horns to roust the parents and kids from their beds. They buy one large drone with bird sized mini’s attached that can be dropped at the rabbles door or window. Come on now, it’s all about the children and has nothing to do with the crappie system of learning and government at all, rightttt. 🙂 🙂