[6SJ7]

The Globe dances around with excuses...

Students miss school for a variety of reasons: They may be sick, homeless, working, or taking care of a sibling or their own child. Other times, they skip to avoid being bullied, or because they are bored with classes, struggling academically, or frustrated that they are so far behind that they think they will never graduate.

... and then inadvertently blurts out the truth...

Carynn Donald, a ninth-grader at Jeremiah Burke High School in Dorchester, estimates that she has missed a dozen days this year, often because she woke up tired and went back to sleep.

[susannah59]

By the time I finished high school, I got not only myself but my younger brother up and off to school. (It was either that or get up even earlier to go with my mother when she went to work).

I might have missed 20 days, total, of my entire time in school, grades 1-12. Staying out of school, unless you were actually sick, was not an option. I never skipped school nor class, either; I lived in a small town and knew someone would be on the phone with my mother before I got three steps off campus so just never bothered.

This article does not point out, but it should be obvious, that these kids are not learning a basic work ethic let alone basic skills; they are going to be unemployable if they ever do get around to graduating.

[HenpeckedCon]

Another dirty little secret is that Boston Govt schools are 90% minority because of busing. I Liberal do gooder judge wanted to integrate all of the schools. All he did was make the vast majority of white students go to private schools instead.

[Bigg Red]

When I spent my single year of 22 years of my teaching career in a public school, I used to hope that certain students would not come to school, as those were often the disruptive, non-compliant kids.

Of course, after a certain number of absences, the pupil personnel workers would go out and visit their homes, and the brats would be back to destroy the order that I had finally managed to bring to a given section.

There should be two kinds of schools in a given system. One type of school would be available for kids who want to be in school, regardless of their ability or grades, and the other type of school would be for those students who did not want to be in school. The well-behaved kids are being robbed.

[Jonty30]

When I worked nights, at a convenience store, I’d see these kids all the time at 1am or 2 am and I’d think, “How can they be up when they have school in the morning.”

Now I know, they don’t have school in the morning.

[Newtoidaho]

“often because she woke up tired and went back to sleep.”

funny how I don’t remember that being an option for me when I was in school. My ass would still be hurting from the kicking it would have received if I’d have tried it.