Posted on 01/13/2011 6:04:41 AM PST by Immerito
SOUTH CHARLESTON - Pay increases for educators, adding five or 10 minutes to a school day and a bill that one West Virginia senator thinks would encourage families to understand the importance of education are among the suggestions leaders in their fields believe could lead education reform in the state.
State Sen. Erik Wells, D-7th District, plans to introduce a bill during the upcoming legislative session, which begins Wednesday, that would revoke the driver's licenses of parents whose children miss too many days of school.
Although Wells said he won't bet it will be one of the approximately 200 bills of 2,000 that will become law this session, he does hope it will increase awareness about the importance of education and hold parents accountable for the actions of their children.
On Friday, Wells told West Virginia reporters the bill will call for revoking the driver's licenses of individuals whose children are inexcusably absent for 10 or more days of the school year. Before revoking the license, the bill would stipulate that a parent would receive a warning when the child has been absent five times, he added.
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Reason #432 to home school.
State Sen. Erik Wells, D-7th District, plans to introduce a bill during the upcoming legislative session, which begins Wednesday, that would revoke the driver's licenses of parents whose children miss too many days of school.
Nope. What this says is "We own your children, not you!".
Once again the state insists on wasting money and resources on children who do not value their education. Of course this comes at the expense of the families with children who do value it.
Exactly. Instead of working with the students, working with the parents, working with the school system, working with the community.........they punish the parents. Not only do they not teach the children the basics, teach them only what they want them to learn, they now want to control the parents through the children.
Nothing like going after your own constituency with brain dead reasoning. Birds of a feather I guess.
This is about money. Schools get paid for attendance and this will help to keep the cash flowing their way.
Only partially. It's about parents having control over their children and not government.
One of my family’s old, oft-repeated sayings:
Damn kids. Ain’t worth the work. Oughta knock ‘em in the head and raise hogs instead.
Gotta make sure they get that federal money.
Some parents understand the importance of education so well that they home school or send their kids to private schools rather than government schools.
Those parents understand who the children actually belong to.
Want kids to show
You miss a day of school, NO SSI check for the month
You miss 3 days of school, baby mama loses 1/3 of the welfare check
No school, no gov check.
That would garner some attention.
Why does EVERY fascist idea come from Democrats?
I think that’s brilliant from a Leftist point of view. Two more Democrat votes, post haste...
And if the little truant is 18, wow, a three-fer...
Because the democrats are fascists.
Deadbeat dads, now parents of truants... who’s next?
Absolutely.
Meanwhile, some kids need to be chained to a school desk to make them stay in school and not skip classes.
But with the "empowered" school systems these days doting on self-esteem-feel-good-ism, the students are allowed to free range with no oversight from faculty.
More evidence that “educators” and their friends in the political class (1) think of students as property of the state and (2) demand that even day-to-day choices of parents not diminish the school attendance numbers that are used to calculate state and federal government aid to schools.
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