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09-19-2011, 10:20 AM | #1 | |
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School sends poor students home.
What do you think about this?
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Normally I'd feel a knee-jerk reaction to be on the side of the student. Like some of my facebook friends. But I think I'm in agreement with the majority of the commenters. It's not about being poor. She had plenty of time to fix this before school started in ways that didn't involve money. Sending kids home is extreme, but I've often found that what we say and what kids hear are not one and the same. I don't think she should have been sent home (if she was), but neither should she or other students get a free pass because they are poor. She's playing a victim card to get out of her responsibilities. What do you think? Am I being unfair?
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09-19-2011, 10:56 AM | #2 |
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I don't know the full story but I'm sure there are other options that could have been taken, assuming this wasn't just a miscommunication. Make her "volunteer" five hours of her time to do something productive for the school. Sending her home doesn't make any sense.
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09-19-2011, 11:20 AM | #3 |
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It's a little odd that the principal's side is just that he says he didn't send them home for unpaid fines. Did he not send them home, or did he send them home for some other reason? It's hard to say whether it's bad reporting or a non-denial denial.
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I could see sending poor kids home if they are so poor they can't even pay attention. That makes sense.
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09-19-2011, 04:25 PM | #6 |
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09-19-2011, 04:48 PM | #7 | |
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09-19-2011, 05:56 PM | #9 |
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Oh it would have/should have been brought to her attention on a regular basis. But it doesn't stop you until registration the next year as far as I can tell.
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09-19-2011, 08:05 PM | #10 |
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The news story is clearly incomplete.
I also think your thread title is unfair. (1) Student, not students. (2) Was not sent home for being poor, but for some other reason. How about "School upholds society's standards of returning borrowed stuff"? Nevertheless, while some kind of sanction is appropriate, I'd consider exclulsion from education to be a very serious punishment to be used as a last resort.
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I doubt if that news story is actually what happened. I don't know how big that school is, but I bet more than 10 kids had library fines of one sort or an another. Why send home only 10 of them? They would ALL have had to go home or call Mom and Dad for the money.
At my high school if you had fines or you lost a book, your library privileges would be taken away until you cleared the matter up. As a matter of fact, in grade school, if we turned out text books in at the end of the year with too much damage, we had to pay for them. So everybody made these funky covers for their books out of brown paper bags. I agree the kids should be taught responsibility. Let 'em do some work around the school to make up the fine if they can't pay it. |
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Missed that, thanks.
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09-19-2011, 10:07 PM | #14 | |
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it's interesting to note that not one parent is featured in the article. It's a social worker/whatever making all the noise. Either they really really don't care, or they know they had plenty of time to deal with it and should've done something/helped their child do something about it.
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09-20-2011, 03:47 AM | #15 | |
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It sounds a tad heavy handed, but we have no idea what led up to this. For all we know there've been half a dozen letters sent to the parents. This could be the culmination of a long-standing problem.
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