Comments on: Truancy Cases Up In Escambia Schools, Judge Proposes Solution

By: no one cares

no one cares — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:06:56 +0000

I know of a parent who allows her child to miss classes and the child failed because of it….she still allows the child to miss…for parents like this, something drastic needs to be done…the child is at a different school, failing miserably, because they are NEVER at school

By: Janice Parker

Janice Parker — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:30:27 +0000

SW
What the statement means to me is to be kind, considerate and encouraging to every child that you can if the occasion arises. Know nothing about where it came from. Janice Parker

By: Mrs, MAGGIE ROBERTS

Mrs, MAGGIE ROBERTS — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:08:14 +0000

TO MOMA, DAD WELL= GUARDIANS OF NVHS STUDENTS

IS strict discipline, requirements, an expectance of students to do reading, writing, research and hand assignments in on time college level? Does this help teach self discipline? YES, YES, YES. MAYBE IT SEEMS LIKE COLLEGE BECAUSE YOUR STUDENT/CHILD DOES NOT, NOT UNDERSTAND.
When is the last time someone at your home sat down and ask, “What is your assignments today?” to your 9 – 12 grade student?
Then DO always have, every day reading assignments. AND DON’T SETTLE FOR THE OLD, “I’VE ALREADY DUN IT”. WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YOU, YES YOU HEARD YOUR CHILD READ ALOUD. AND YOU HAD BETTER LISTEN PARENT!
Get them to read it AGAIN so you can see if they need practice or go over that math with you again to make sure they understand the assignments. Maybe they fell behind and need to be caught up. Help them. This way you can see if they understand. Get them help if they don’t.. Call that teacher(s) let her/him know Susie does not understand. She’s needs help now.. Don’t be ashame. Just do it. And mom and dad, granny or papa, older brother or sisters , if you don’t understand the assignment, let the teacher know pleasees let s know. We are not that bad. But if we don’t know what to fix/CHANGE WE CAN’T HELP! There are tutors who volunteer to help with assignments and reading and understanding. There is also a program your child can USE full of adults, retired who can help. two times a week ASK!
We at NVHS WANT TO SEE OUR STUDENTS DO GREAT, HELP US HELP THEM.
WANTING TO CHANGE NVHS FOR THE BEST

By: SW

SW — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:50:13 +0000

A village to raise a child? I must disagree with that statement, Ms. Parker. That is a socialist/communist agenda to encourage participation with the collective. That is an agenda pushed by the UN and other progressives. Please reconsider that. It does take a family to raise a child. It takes a good education system as well. Something, I fear, we don’t have in our area.

Otherwise your post has great merit.

Good luck with dealing with Northview. I found it to be rather difficult. Thankfully, my children survived the ordeal and have gone on to succeed in spite of it.

By: Janice Parker

Janice Parker — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:15:50 +0000

I agree with most of what everyone says about this, but I have a few problems that haven’t been mentioned. I don’t know what the cirriculum is for k-5, but I feel some of it needs to be changed. There are children in our system who get a small amount of encouragement from anyone. Teachers as well as parents need to teach their children self-love and respect. If we save one or two children, it would be well worth changing the way our children are taught. We also need to remember the saying that it takes a village to raise a child.
I also have something to say about a counselor at Northview. It’s the one who told my daughter that she just needed to take her child home and homeschool her when she went to the school and tried to talk about a problem she was having at school that was causing her truancy. She was being bullied by a girl and even under threats of arrest at Ernest Ward, she continued on into Northview. This makes me think that Northview isn’t the place you want your child educated. You also have at least one teacher there that teaches on a college level. She may be proud of that, but when my granddaughters were going there, I was told by them that there was very few of her students that didn’t dread to walk into her classroom every day. I wonder how that fact makes her feel? There are a lot of contributing factors when it comes to the causes of truancy.

By: North Escambia Resident

North Escambia Resident — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:53:05 +0000

Ya know, not all of the kids who are considered truant are skipping school. Many of them are sick and have doctor’s excuses. The absences don’t always get counted as being excused however.
My daughter has been diagnosed with migraines and a rare form of epilepsy. She has missed a lot of days for testing and doctor’s appointments. When she does, I send the doctor’s note and a request for all the assignments she has missed. I still receive notices and visits from the school social worker telling me that her absences are unacceptable. I want to know WHY? She has been out of school legitimately excused by her doctors and yet we are still dealing with truancy actions.
May I ask what good putting me in jail would do? For one thing, I don’t have the money to bond out, so I’m going to be there for a while. In the meantime, my kids will be out of school because they will have to go to another state to stay with my mother, thereby resulting in even MORE days for all of them to miss and even MORE truancy court. My daughter will also miss important doctor’s appointments and her medical condition will deteriorate. Again, what good will that do?
There are also days that she has been counted as absent when she was THERE. I have started keeping a calendar and marking every day whether she was there or not and why. If she wakes up at 5 a.m. vomiting and crying about how badly her head is hurting, I’m not sending her to school at 7:30. She’s going to take her medicine and lie down in a dark, quiet room and wait for it to work. If it stops soon enough and doesn’t leave her groggy and disoriented, I will take her in late. If it doesn’t, she’ll stay home.
What I don’t understand is why there is no distinction made between medical issues and just plain skipping school. Why are the parents of children who have medical issues being punished? Don’t you think we are dealing with enough already? I’m worried about IMPROVING my child’s health…..NOT endangering it by sending her to school when she shouldn’t be there and also distracting the classroom when she has a seizure or starts vomiting everywhere. What kind of sense does this make? NONE.

By: Billy Mays here

Billy Mays here — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:33:33 +0000

hey…let em be truant.

I mean, there will always be a need for someone to wipe the cars off at car washes…

I never missed a day of school on purpose, ever. I knew if I did, my parents would have found out and id have been in deep crap. Kids today dont care. They dont respect their parents, they certainly dont fear them. Kids have the upper hand in a sense. If they skip, get picked up, parents show up..they pop in ther ear buds and crank their I-pod and listen to their Soulja Boy…ignore their parents on the way home…get home, flip parents off, blame parents for all problems…and recieve apologies and reward.

Beat your kids around a little…dont put em in the hospital…but a quick slap across the face in front of friends can do wonders.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:11:38 +0000

Spare thee rod and spoil the child. It worked for me as a child and it worked when I was raising my children. If one of my children called the law and had me locked up guess who is going to be taken care of when I am released. Yes, you guessed right.

By: SW

SW — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:12:11 +0000

There will always be a few people who do not go to school for one reason or another. Truancy is a bad thing. However, shouldn’t the object be to keep these kids in school and provide something in their lives so they can be productive citizens?

Truancy may be a symptom; not the disease….

By: Mrs, Sunny Sunshine

Mrs, Sunny Sunshine — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:38:30 +0000

Pick up the parent or parents at home, at work, shopping, visit make a statement. Parent = responsibility, when we chose to have children, we chose to take FULL responsibility of these humans until they are 18.
They are allowed to act like adults, dress like adults and most cases talk to their parents like adults by their parents. ARE ALLOWED is the key words,,,, is the problem.
Parents will maybe think twice before these behaviors are allowed if they are held accountable. I know there are grandma and pa’s who can’t seem to do a thing with them, well give them a court appointed person to see that they are where they are suppose to be.
The disrespect now is incredible. Please parents graudians take that child and use discipline.

THESE SAME “KIDS” ARE WHO WE ARE DEPENDING ON TO HELP US WHEN WE ARE IN OUR 60′S, PLUS. Can you even imagine some as doctors, lawyers, managers. etc. Everyone can’t be a truck driver or Walgreen employee.