Child missed school? Please pay $40

The Orange County Register ^ | February 17, 2012 | Fermin Leal

[Fast Moving Angel]

ORANGE – Parents in Orange Unified received a letter at the beginning of the school year asking them to donate $40 for each day their child misses class to help offset the $5.5 million in attendance funding the district loses annually.

Five months later, the district has netted $920.

[RetiredTexasVet]

A perfect example of over-degreed and under-educated! I think some doctor could make a fortune on a “rent-a-brain” business if it could be discovered how to take those frog brains (from the frogs that are challenged after amputation for frog legs in restaurants) and use them for augmenting the intellectual capabilities of teachers, professors and administrators in the education organized crime syndicate.

[EEGator]

Oh, I’m sure it will change in time. It’s like the story of the frog and the pot. Throw a frog into boiling water and it jumps out. Heat it slowly and it cooks the frog. Incrementalism is a huge tactic of the powers that be.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Public "education" is not about education.

It's about the federal $$$$s.

Period.

[bboop]

I thought our taxes supported the schools already. SO glad I homeschooled.

[metmom]

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[miele man]

Seems to me this can cut both ways. If little Johnny cannot read beyond the 9th grade level or does not get admitted to his favorite college, then do the parents have a good case in a lawsuit for little Johnny’s lack of performance?

[Intolerant in NJ]

So the kid misses a day of education and the parents have to pay $40- only in liberallalaland.....

[newzjunkey]

Did you see a district in NC is doing precisely that? They’re inspecting from home lunches for nutrition in accordance with federal guidelines and if they don’t meet the standard the lunch is supplemented by school food and the parents billed. It’s insanity.