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I see, I didn't know of any that
called unless they had missed several days already....that's why I was curious.
lol
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 6:17
AM
Subject: RE: [Sndbox] Are there too many
sick kids in day care or school?
Well
that is the schools way of making sure the parent knows their child isnt in
school, which is a good idea in my opinion. It's something they do with every
child regardless of how many days he or she has missed.
Why were they calling anyway, if
he hadn't missed alot of days???
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003
10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Sndbox] Are there too
many sick kids in day care or school?
<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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