Boy force to eat alone for being late to school

Reba said:
I attended school in many states, and as I recall, California (high school in San Diego) was the only one I had to pay for bus transportation. I think the buses we rode looked like city buses, not yellow school buses.
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There's a fee for riding the bus in my grandaughters school district. That's in Iowa.
 
Yellow school bus in Alabama are free to students, funded by taxpayer for all county schools, but city schools are different situation.

In DC, children with no special needs have go to school by walking or use public transportation.
 
Reba said:
Was it always so, or did that happen when gas prices soared? Just curious.
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Not at all sure. We didn't live in Iowa until my kids were much older, and the district we were in didn't allow busing from the distance we lived.
 
Foxrac said:
Many schools will penalize your child for being late so it doesn't make any difference.
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Sorry to disagree it does make a difference when a child is publicly shamed like that. It is considered a form of mental abuse.

A human being deserves dignity.


How the chid is penalized for circumstances beyond his control is so beyond me. It is sickening that adults involved in driect care of those children permitted this to happen.

I have so many regulations involved with my special needs client and will be fired if I ever did that type of thing to one of them because they were late to the dinner table.
 
Kai Onca said:
Sorry to disagree it does make a difference when a child is publicly shamed like that. It is considered a form of mental abuse.

A human being deserves dignity.


How the chid is penalized for circumstances beyond his control is so beyond me. It is sickening that adults involved in driect care of those children permitted this to happen.

I have so many regulations involved with my special needs client and will be fired if I ever did that type of thing to one of them because they were late to the dinner table.
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That's part of truancy laws - most states have truancy laws and children will have mandatory to attend the juvenile if they are late to school frequently like more than 3-6 tardies.
 
Foxrac said:
That's part of truancy laws - most states have truancy laws and children will have mandatory to attend the juvenile if they are late to school frequently like more than 3-6 tardies.
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LOL are you kidding me. For TARDIES? For kids that age....

Let me see....

I recall when I went to school if I was late, it was always cuz the bus was late. 5 min, 15 min...Sometimes 2 hour late because of accident or weather it happened alot during the year growing up

Should I have gone to juvenile? ....Oh yes its the the law guess I broke it. Oops.
 
To add to this thread.....that WDYS started....What do you feel is the proper way for a school to handle this situation?

For me:
1)Find out why he is late.

2)If it is the child not wanting to get out of bed and being lazy and difficult then have him sit out a recess or do an extra homework assignment.

3)If it's the parents fault for any reason they need to make a plan and follow through with it to get their child to school on time like every other parent in this country. (car pooling, getting up earlier etc)

****Of course things come up and you might be late one day parents just can't make that an ongoing thing.

Teaching your children how important it is to be on time will help them with everything later in life, like holding a job.
 
Kai Onca said:
LOL are you kidding me. For TARDIES? For kids that age....

Let me see....

I recall when I went to school if I was late, it was always cuz the bus was late. 5 min, 15 min...Sometimes 2 hour late because of accident or weather it happened alot during the year growing up

Should I have gone to juvenile? ....Oh yes its the the law guess I broke it. Oops.
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No if the school bus breaks down or gets stuck in bad weather etc. the children are not considered truant.
 
Angel1989 said:
No if the school bus breaks down or gets stuck in bad weather etc. the children are not considered truant.
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Youre correct. I was being hypocritical because the person I was referring to was seeing Black and White and no Gray area missing the root point of my original post. I know it is exempted...Guess my sarcasm missed its mark.


I just know my county school over 40% school bus in fleet failed their inspection by the state recently And was deemed to be unfit to be driven. Other local counties was higher or around the same.

Decreased funding/buses meaning less kids making it on time. Who really has a problem? Constant school bus being late impacting huge number of kids education and take it out on individual kid whose parents who has the exact issue...struggling to have a drivable car. Fair is fair.

It goes both ways
 
Kai Onca said:
LOL are you kidding me. For TARDIES? For kids that age....

Let me see....

I recall when I went to school if I was late, it was always cuz the bus was late. 5 min, 15 min...Sometimes 2 hour late because of accident or weather it happened alot during the year growing up

Should I have gone to juvenile? ....Oh yes its the the law guess I broke it. Oops.
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No, I'm serious, only if you are late to school repeatedly, even early check out of school frequently trigger truancy warning letters too.

I had receive truancy letters several times when I was in K-12 but deaf school don't issue truancy letters at all.
 
Foxrac said:
No, I'm serious, only if you are late to school repeatedly, even early check out of school frequently trigger truancy warning letters too.

I had receive truancy letters several times when I was in K-12 but deaf school don't issue truancy letters at all.
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Sucks. I just recall one of my friend was always ditching school my freshman year and had cops come to his house to make sure he got up and got on bus.

When I was in HS when I was late, I got 3 strikes per quarter allowance before drop one full letter grade in each class.
 
Kai Onca said:
Sucks. I just recall one of my friend was always ditching school my freshman year and had cops come to his house to make sure he got up and got on bus.

When I was in HS when I was late, I got 3 strikes per quarter allowance before drop one full letter grade in each class.
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Yes, that why I prefer college over high school.

No more Pledge of Allegiance, no more truancy letters, no more detention hall, no more mysterious foods in cafeteria, use offensive language whatever you want, use cellphone during class (depending on professors), you have own behavioral/attitude type, you can leave the class early after exam, no more lockers, no dress code and flexible class schedule.
 
By the way, not to throw a wrench in this. But why bus a kid from "no child left behind law" from so far away and then determine that 200 plus kids living less than 2 mile radius has to get their own way to school? Some routes are downright dangerous for kids to walk to/from school?

If bus was accessible to everybody in reality most of kids will be more likely to go to school which is the goal the school wants. They want high attendance to continue to get funding.
 
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