God bless people who are willing to take physically adult minors who are also truants into their home. It does not appear to be a wise choice, but maybe the government subsidy makes the struggle worthwhile. Do the foster homes need to prove that the truant minor is attending classes in order to collect?
Stupid and probably unconstitutional. First question a judge would ask: “What are you planning on doing to the families of truants who aren’t on welfare?” Done.
I actually agree with the Jacobs woman. I think you need a better handle on what the real problems are before you go jerking welfare from people who are already poor. Jerking welfare may be an option for truly negligent parents, but that should be a last resort.
If they have a doctors excuse does it still count towards the 10 days?
This is racist.
Follow the money.
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zero tolerance here...a few missed days are normal...headache, flu, family emergency. If the kids are in the juvenile correction system...they miss no days and the school year is 12 months, not nine....works great.
no welfare for those unwilling to try to help themselves.
They’ll never do it.
They’ll take money and social security away from starving elderly before they take a penny away from these losers.
Since this will have a disparate impact on minority families
That’s RACIST!
You will also note that this law gives the state the AUTHORITY to strip welfare benefits it (as far as I know) does not require them to do so.
Which means that they are not likely to.
And of course this law will face an immediate court challenge and because families may face immediate and damaging effects from implementation of the law it will face a court injunction stopping implementation until the lawsuit is decided.
Good ideas are never easily accomplished.
But what might happen is that they will pay kids $25 bucks a day to show up for attendance. Then they can split. It's all about money.
A point hidden in this headline is that those receiving the welfare don’t really need it to survive.
If they did, the government wouldn’t be threatening to throttle it in order to decrease truancy.
That being the case...THROTTLE BACK THEIR WELFARE ANYWAY.
2/3 of Detroit students are chronically truant????
Holy Toledo.
So, is the problem that Detroit has some of the worst public schools in the country, or that they have poor outcomes because so many kids don’t go to school????
Jalen Rose?
never heard of her!
What on earth is the point of having kids who don’t want to go to high school go to freaking COLLEGE?
A week ago being nicely retired and fancy free, I went to the movie on a Tuesday at 12:30 pm. In front of me was a Grandma, Mom and two school age kids getting their tickets and every bit of pop corn and candy known to mankind. I guess it was a school sanctioned field trip. Wasn’t sure if it was payed for by EBT though!
You don’t need an education or to be a productive citizen if the government is just going to hand you money every week.
This was already done in 1993—The Higher Attendance in Michigan Schools Act (Higher AIMS).