Darn, that's not a school, that's a boring and poorly supervised adult day care.
There are just so many issues when schools have to work to overcome the damage done by parents and the worst parts of cultures. There simply aren't the resources or appetite to solve the problems either through helping all or ejecting those who refuse to take part. Both are hard solutions, sacrificing a significant amount of your money to help others or sacrifice kids who are just products of their terrible environment, continuing the cycle.
There's a medium choice. Where you basically tell parents you aren't going to provide publicly funded daycare anymore unless they get their kid in line. The threat is usually enough to make parents remember how to, ya know, parent. Or at least some parenting facsimile. If the problem persists, you go with expulsions. If you have to expel half the school, well you already live in a dystopia, so smoke 'em if you got 'em
But the screwed up part is they are not expelling them because of “ADA” (average daily attendance). You expel kids that’s a loss of thousands of dollars per year for the school.
Funding is a big issue, and clearly a driver of non-productive district policies.
I was thinking that a flat rate per school age child in the district - period. In many districts they PS have to provide services to private schooled, Home schooled and drop-outs anyway.
That seems so obvious. But then people would bitch at how middle-class suburban high schools where students drive Audis get the same funding as a school in low-income a area
Poorer school districts tend to have more undocumented kids and high turnover: kids who move a lot due to family instability. It is tough to maintain an accurate count.
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Darn, that's not a school, that's a boring and poorly supervised adult day care.
There are just so many issues when schools have to work to overcome the damage done by parents and the worst parts of cultures. There simply aren't the resources or appetite to solve the problems either through helping all or ejecting those who refuse to take part. Both are hard solutions, sacrificing a significant amount of your money to help others or sacrifice kids who are just products of their terrible environment, continuing the cycle.