Chronic absenteeism has soared in public schools since the pandemic. Byron Pitts talks to kids about why they dropped out and to adults dedicated to getting them back into the classroom.
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this just shows that people who shouldn't be parents, should have an easy and free way out of that option
One thing not mentioned is social media. I know kids who spent covid lockdown freetime and kids who are.on social media at school. These kids say why do I need to go to school when i can just do a Tik Tok dance and become famous like blank. Or I want to be a influencer and dont need to go to school for that. I had someone point out thar in one year , Ryan from Ryan's world made millions just reviewing toys on YouTube. He was just 9 year's old.
Also I read that psych med perscriptions on school children went up 60% compared to the 1980s school K-12 population.
Disrespectful kids. Most are slotted to be homeless and jail crowders. They don’t know yet. We the adult know that what waiting for them.
Hartford…where I was a homeless fentanyl addict. How fun.
We need to start providing career advice to kids. In California we have free community college. i am sure in CT they can attend community college and come out in two years with a health or technical degree that pays 30 dollars to 60 dollars an hour- respiratory therapy, RN, union electrician, aircraft mechanic. The other issue is the lack of experiential education and the constant testing. The education professor is part of the problem. She sees kids as victims instead of as people with agency. "Trauma, SEL etc" are all excuses for poor parenting and the lack of teaching executive functioning skills to students. You need to show up, turn in your work on time, etc. I don't believe the kid who said he was "treated like he was stupid." He probably didn't try and didn't show up. They always try to blame teachers who are leaving in droves. By the time you need men in suits showing up on people's doors, it's too late. It's the parents who don't value education. 5 year olds with chronic absenteeism? That's on the parents.
Blame everything on the schools. Sad
Parents, parents, parents. Where are they? Teachers cannot solve these problems.
We don’t care lol
I had absent parents and I was a chronically absent student. (Grew up white and poor). Single mother household and education wasn't a focus. I didn't watch cartoons or hang out with friends, I was focused on keeping my parents alive for the day (H addicts). It felt like being at war every single day and the focus was never on me. I'm still battling the impact it had on me and I'll use my progress to help others who struggle in the same way. My heart bleeds for kids in similar situations with no way out, they don't show how much they're struggling and will tolerate so much at their own expense. ❤
“I was a good student they just didn’t understand me” yeah right…
Yes schools are failing our kids. That is so.true. teachers don't care.
My sister made me late every single morning I literally stayed in iss because of her but I had to pay the price it’s absolutely the parents fault my mom did nothing
Children are not built to internalize the high amounts of toxic stress they are exposed to on a daily basis, at home, at school, in the world.. We are seeing just how much damage that does to them, they are victims not criminals, let's be abundantly clear about that. If a child is failing than it means the adults around them have failed them. Until the roots of the systemic problems are solved, these types of things are only going to spiral even more out of control. modern day schools were built to create factory workers, kids deserve a better format than that, they deserve to feel safe & supported so they can get out of survival mode & into learning mode.
7:15 exactly why public schools need to be revamp and teachers unions need to be banned.
6:35 this girl actually has a real issues as a homeless kid.
6:13 you gave up on yourself.
4:59 oh please. Stop making excuses for people’s life choices. Speaking another language does not make it difficult to succeed.
Bad parenting. This is crazy parents aren’t responsible for their kids.
Blacks
MONEY MONEY MONEY PROBLEM
Schools taught students during COVID school didn’t matter, no matter what you do we’ll push you through. These students took that message to heart and left. I don’t blame them, their parents and teachers failed them
I'd argue this video represents the disconnect people have to reality, including ABC. The interviewer did not push back. Everyone knows the parents, most are single mothers, are categorically failing, therefore creating generations of menaces to society. This isn't rocket science, it is common elementary-level sense. No father = no discipline. There is no boogeyman white supremacist, or institutional racism or any other risible nonsense, or the schools to blame. This is ALL on the parents and why certain communities cannot build generational wealth, because again the parent tries their best to raise a son-husband. Conversely, the mothers are teaching their daughters how to live off of the system by getting pregnant by as many Bobo's, Pookies, and Rayray's as possible.
"crisis"
I dropped out in 8th grade and I'm in no better or worse situation than my classmates that were making plans and never missing
According to Democrats we have to be more inclusive and lower standards so these students can succeed
This sounds like kids and parents are blaming schools. It's not the schools job to make kids go to school, it's the parents job.
If they are sighting homelessness, poverty, or mental health that's the PARENTS duty. Not the schools.
Schools are meant to EDUCATE. I understand if a student is having a hard time getting their needs met, education wise… But if the school is having to do the PARENTS job how are they expected to teach? Sounds like excuses to me.
I grew up with 2 addicted parents. Sometimes only eating at school. I've been to over 14 schools, due to that I was way behind. But I didn't skip regularly and I didn't give up on MYSELF. I understand struggling. I don't understand playing the "poor pitiful woe is me victim". So tired of this nonsense.
These kids nowadays are mentally checked out and that’s not an educational issues nor a pandemic thing but a person to person thing. These kids nowadays want the hand of here you go instead of making it Happen. I had to go through some strong things depression, poverty, and family issues such as no water no electricity but I graduated, went to college graduated and working a travel job. I made no excuses it was hard but I kept going
It is 100% on the PARENTS. Where are they in these situations?!
passing everyone + no consequences = public education
These people ditching school today will be blaming the 1% for their failure later. We have become a society that rewards failure and punishes success.
“I would do this job for free.” I want to feel like that! Powerful! ❤
It goes back to the parents 100% of the time. 100%.
When kids have to move from place to place and not all their credits and grades move with them that’s also a big problem
https://youtu.be/jUNQH_wlWzM?si=xVSNpzk-r7mXiwK6
American children treat free education as a chore. Give this half opportunity to an Asian kid from the same or worse levels of poverty and you would see a difference.
Some aspects indeed are a challenge. Like poor healthcare, hunger and hygiene can affect attendances. But there has to be some burden on parents too. How much control does a teacher have?
Schools just aren’t built for anything outside the classroom. And communities are no longer able to support schools and vice versa the way they were able to before Covid.
Lack of student and parent accountability. Plus, there are policies that don’t hold students accountable either. The bathrooms are smoking lounges, students walking in the halls 5, 10, and 15 mins passing periods. Students cursing out staff. Hold the students and parents accountable.
Children are saying that the people that are educated are still complaining about the cost of living so they're like well what's the point of getting an education when I still won't be able to afford the cost to live.
It's the cellphones' fault.
These people are a part of the issues kids in third world countries would love to have these problems #weak
This is a sad reason to see Hartford, CT on the news. It's my hometown, but I thank God I found a way out.
I cant believe how many people believe its not the school and for you I am sorry you are blind to common sense. The school system is just as much at fault as everyone else. The fact teachers dont get payed enough or the fact that students feel they are being talked at and not talked with. There are countless examples and those that dont see them are just as bad as flat earthers or climate change denialist.