In Greenbrier Public High school there are allowed 8 unexcused absences a semester. Let's say there was a committee considering citing parents as well as children when children skip school. For a first offense, parent and child would each be fined $50: each would be fined $75 for a second offense. Third and subsequent offenses could carry jail time for the parent. I would not support their decisions on skipping because it's not always the parents fault in the case of a juvenile delinquent, from experience I know it isn't hard to catch up on a few days missed work, and the penalty for each day skipped is too harsh. In the case of a juvenile delinquent the parents really have little say in what the children do. The kids do what they want for
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I have missed a whole week of school before and caught up in small increments throughout the following days. If the punishments are for the “safety of the students,” it is quite irrelevant because work can be made up. Punishing people who skip school is counterproductive and would cause more harm than it would good. Fines in the 50-75$ range are quite outrageous for the hard working blue collars. From a low time in my parents lives I have seen what it's like living on minimum wage. During the time I was living with them they would let me skip whenever, if the fines were in place, they would be broke. It would take someone on minimum wage 5-8 hours to pay off a fine when the money could be going to the grocery bill and when they are in jail how will they feed their children. The fines proposed by the committee are unreasonable. The pitch thrown by the city council committee should be disregarded. The amount of absence days allowed now is functional and needs no adjusting. There are times when absences are not the parents fault, kids easily make up the work, and harsh punishments are for legalistic dynasties not democratic school systems. A day at school is not worth 50 dollars and should not be fined that way. Although there should be punishment for outrageous absences, it should not be enforced at such a hard level of
I have missed a whole week of school before and caught up in small increments throughout the following days. If the punishments are for the “safety of the students,” it is quite irrelevant because work can be made up. Punishing people who skip school is counterproductive and would cause more harm than it would good. Fines in the 50-75$ range are quite outrageous for the hard working blue collars. From a low time in my parents lives I have seen what it's like living on minimum wage. During the time I was living with them they would let me skip whenever, if the fines were in place, they would be broke. It would take someone on minimum wage 5-8 hours to pay off a fine when the money could be going to the grocery bill and when they are in jail how will they feed their children. The fines proposed by the committee are unreasonable. The pitch thrown by the city council committee should be disregarded. The amount of absence days allowed now is functional and needs no adjusting. There are times when absences are not the parents fault, kids easily make up the work, and harsh punishments are for legalistic dynasties not democratic school systems. A day at school is not worth 50 dollars and should not be fined that way. Although there should be punishment for outrageous absences, it should not be enforced at such a hard level of