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Originally Posted by epchick
oh yeah, I completely agree with you. I guess I just see how it is here in my community. A kid is allowed to miss 9 days of school a semester, and after the 9th day, the parent can be taken to court for truancy. Yet once a kid turns 16, they are allowed to drop out and no one cares anymore. I don't think it's right. The parent of the 16 year old should be taken to court just as much as the parent of the 1st child. But that happens soo many times here. In fact, there is an initiative here (forgot what its called) where the MAYOR goes to the houses of kids who have dropped out and encourages them to go back. Does it help? Ehhh, maybe when the news station goes out to cover it, but IDK if it helps that much.
The biggest thing that our community could do here is to change our mentality. A lot of parents are stuck in the "old way" and its hard to convince them otherwise. As long as you reach the kids, that is all that matters.
But my whole thing is that the teachers shouldn't be held responsible for drop outs. But with NCLB, they are.
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Lol then we're agreeing completely on this. I think that's awesome that the Mayor is doing that. Things at your school were pretty similar to mine. I think we started out in 95 with 160some students. By graduation in 99, we graduated about 120ish. I'm sure the school system would cringe if that were now.
There was a girl whom I had known since kindergarten. Bright student, but then started hanging out with the wrong crowd. In high school, our Spanish teacher made a deal that if she came to class every day for a week, we'd have a pizza party the next week. She didn't make it. Eventually she dropped out. Her sister who was a year younger than her, although the biggest pothead I know, graduated in the top 5 of her class.