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Agreed about the forced lying
bit....that always wrankles me too. You either fib, or the kid gets
zero's.....something very wrong with that picture.......
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:59
AM
Subject: RE: [Sndbox] Are there too many
sick kids in day care or school?
Yeah me too. Frankly I oppose all
mandatory attendance requirements in the first place. It's the parent's
decision. If I want to take my kids out of school to go study nature in
the park, it's my business and no one else's. What right do they have to
say it's "unexcused". When we go to Pine Mountain each year to see the
Christmas lights I have to lie and tell them someone's sick or they get zero's
on their work. That's just not any of the school's business. If I
want them to go for a couple days, no government paper pusher should have the
right to say I'm wrong.
Charles
Mims
<rolling eyes>
My gosh... that would piss me
off.
If it were me... next time I would tell them he had pnumonia.
(sp)
On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 10:11 AM, Angela
wrote:
My
son stayed home today, although he wasnt contagious....he had a really bad
migrane, but I've already had the school calling me wanting to know why I
kept him out just for a migrane. Read this note sent home with report cards
yesterday.....(forgive any errors, I'm typing parts that pertain to missing
school)
ou
may have heard on the news or read in the newpapers about the No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001. This is legislation that provides a means for the
individual states to receive money from the federal government for their
schools. The amount of money is quite substantial and, as you might imagine,
requires that the school systems meet certain expectations. The goal of NCLB
is to eventually improve graduation rates to 100%, increase school
attendance, and to make students 100% math and reading competent. These are
very lofty goals and require a 100% partnership between the home, school,
and community. Attaining these goals has been broken down into what is hope
to be manageable benchmarks. Only 4 schools in Tazewell County made their
Annual Yearly Progess based on data from last school year. There were three
areas where we needed to meet benchmarks. .....(goes on to give statistics
on the last school year then continues on to say)...
Our
attendance rate for last school year was only 92.5%.
Had our attendance been better we would have been the only middle school in
Tazewell County as Graham was the only high school, to make AYP. It is
obvious that our teachers are doing their part to adequately instruct our
students. we need you to see that your children are in school. We can
only teach those students who are in attendance!! For the past 2
years we have had the lowest percent attendance of the middle schools in
Tazewell County. For the month of September GMS's attendance was the lowest
in the county. at only 91.44%. It no longer affects only your child when
he or she does not attend school. Please help us make AYP next year by
improving our
attendance!!
Ok,
so how well are children going to learn if they are sick? Or if they come to
school sick and pass it onto other students, the attendance is even lower.
This letter comes off as the schools wanting you to send your kids to school
whether they are sick or not. As I said, my son had a migrane this morning
and couldnt hardly get out of bed, yet they wanted me to send him
anyway.....
-----Original
Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of
Charles
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:11
AM
To: 'The Sandbox Discussion List'
Subject: [Sndbox]
Are there too many sick kids in day care or school?
Are
there too many sick kids in day care or school?
Probably -
Pediatricians estimate that 58 percent of their young patients go to child
care or school even when ill, according to a Gallup survey. This despite the
fact that 81 percent of mothers working full-time have stayed home at times
to care for a sick child.
Charles
Mims
http://www.the-sandbox.org
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