Truancy and absenteeism among school students is now the highest it has ever been, with almost 15 million students chronically absent or missing 18 days of school following the Covid-19 pandemic. To fight the problem school districts are taking some critical measures with fines, community service and even threats of jail time for parents.
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Tie the child tax credit to school attendance. If the child misses too many days for nonmedical reasons, then no tax credit
Lol truancy surged in 2021?! Bc there was a pandemic?
Yes the case should be dismissed if the attendance is improved but it doesn’t mean at the time in question there wasn’t a problem.
Lawyer: I don’t know what you are talking about. Has nothing do with race. Get up in the morning and go to school.
Mother: just 🛑 ✋ like asap before your son gets worst.
While in China, kids go from 6am to 9pm + homework until 11pm. School guards usually are police and they checking attendance
Forced indoctrination or face jail time & fines, so much for a free country.
Liberals want no accountability
This is exactly why everyone gets sick at school. This will make parents feel inclined to send their children to school when they are sick and spread their germs to other kids and teachers
Spend billions and billions of dollars on other countries, constantly tell us that “America is first” then they pull crap on us like this.
What’s the point of being an American or even saying that where the best nation in the world if this keeps happening? We’re even worse than most countries in the world now.
Here’s an idea…. GO BACK TO REMOTE LEARNING. You don’t know why kids are absent.
I Will home school my kids
More jail time than people that steal. why?
Communist America
Well, if we are going to jail, because of this, we should stop paying taxes and make it worthwhile the time in jail if there is room lols, yeah put parents in jail to make it more cozy for the illegals to take over our homes good thinking America.
How about worry about keeping the teachers to teach these disrespectful kids
If a 10 year old is missing school it's the parents fault and they should be held accountable, but if a 15 year old is missing school there is only so much that can be done at that point.
America 😂😂
God forbid they miss a day of indoctrination.
Stop teaching about they them and pronounce and maybe you’d see more kids in school.
I was wondering why the parents that did not want their kids to be killed in a shooting, did not keep their kids out of schools, so now I see maybe why.
How are you going to force students to go to unsafe schools that do not prepare you for the real world.
My kid has missed 10 days already. She was not exposed to any of these kid germs before starting kindergarten and now that she is around so many kids she is picking up everything. R.S.V. then covid and she also had an ear infection right at the beginging of the year. It has been rough.
The land of the free 😂😂😂😂😂
I dont get it… now kids are supposed to sit at home and learn, and then when they get a job theyre supposed to sit at home and work? In 20 years no one is ever going to leave their homes.
People keep sending their kids to school sick. Some of them probably dont have a choice to work. Then, those sick kids get all of the other kids sick. My kids have gotten sick so many times just this school year. Sent home from the nurse's office several times.