Two of my former students were on the news tonight. Brothers, one year apart. First and Second graders this year. They didn't come back to our school this year, went to a magnet school I think. Anyway, apparently they had after school tutoring, and decided to skip out. They walked to a nearby hotel/casino , took them about twenty minutes to get there from the school. They were just chill'n, until some security guards stopped them. Their mom thinks it's the school's fault. Heck, she's their mother, deep down inside, she knows better than that, it's not the school's fault. I know better than that, and I'm not their mother, I only had the two little darlings in kindergarten.
It was nice to see them again.
And no surprise.
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Depends. One of my coworkers at my old job had a kid she would drop off at the school office and then she would go to work. He would leave school and go home. Her point was that once the kid was on campus it should be their job to keep him there. She lived in a state where they fine the parents if the kids don't go to school. How is a single mother who is at work supposed to be able to do anything more than drop the kid off and hope the school can keep track of the kid.
In this case, it's not that simple. Tutoring might be held on the school campus. But it isn't done "by the school" No Child Left Behind requires tutoring to be done by independent contractors or companies. They use the facilities. Just how would you suggest that the classroom teacher or the tutor track the students? Sometimes the classroom teacher doesn't even KNOW their student is going to tutoring. If they eant accountability, something needs to be put in place. It's not there now.
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