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Well
this is the first year I've had to worry about it. I really dont know if its
something they just started doing or if they just didnt do it on kids under
middle school age
True, if their school skipping age
I suppose...lol If their younger, I would hope either the parents are taking
them or know that their on the bus one...
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 8:28
AM
Subject: RE: [Sndbox] Are there too
many sick kids in day care or school?
It's a good idea to help cut back on kids skipping school w/o parents
knowledge......
I see, I didn't know of any
that called unless they had missed several days already....that's why I
was curious. lol
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 6:17
AM
Subject: RE: [Sndbox] Are there too
many sick kids in day care or school?
Well that is the schools way of making sure the parent knows
their child isnt in school, which is a good idea in my opinion. It's
something they do with every child regardless of how many days he or she
has missed.
Why were they calling
anyway, if he hadn't missed alot of days???
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 09,
2003 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Sndbox] Are there
too many sick kids in day care or school?
<rolling eyes>
My gosh... that would
piss me off.
If it were me... next time I would tell them he had
pnumonia. (sp)
On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at
10:11 AM, Angela wrote:
My
son stayed home today, although he wasnt contagious....he had a
really bad migrane, but I've already had the school calling me
wanting to know why I kept him out just for a migrane. Read this
note sent home with report cards yesterday.....(forgive any
errors, I'm typing parts that pertain to missing school)
ou
may have heard on the news or read in the newpapers about the No
Child Left Behind Act of 2001. This is legislation that provides a
means for the individual states to receive money from the federal
government for their schools. The amount of money is quite
substantial and, as you might imagine, requires that the school
systems meet certain expectations. The goal of NCLB is to
eventually improve graduation rates to 100%, increase school
attendance, and to make students 100% math and reading competent.
These are very lofty goals and require a 100% partnership between
the home, school, and community. Attaining these goals has been
broken down into what is hope to be manageable benchmarks. Only 4
schools in Tazewell County made their Annual Yearly Progess based
on data from last school year. There were three areas where we
needed to meet benchmarks. .....(goes on to give statistics on the
last school year then continues on to say)...
Our
attendance rate for last school year was only 92.5%.
Had our attendance been better we would have been the only middle
school in Tazewell County as Graham was the only high school, to
make AYP. It is obvious that our teachers are doing their part to
adequately instruct our students. we need you to see that your
children are in school. We can only teach those students who
are in attendance!! For the past 2 years we have had the
lowest percent attendance of the middle schools in Tazewell
County. For the month of September GMS's attendance was the lowest
in the county. at only 91.44%. It no longer affects only your
child when he or she does not attend school. Please help us make
AYP next year by improving our attendance!!
Ok,
so how well are children going to learn if they are sick? Or if
they come to school sick and pass it onto other students, the
attendance is even lower. This letter comes off as the schools
wanting you to send your kids to school whether they are sick or
not. As I said, my son had a migrane this morning and couldnt
hardly get out of bed, yet they wanted me to send him anyway.....
-----Original
Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of
Charles
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:11
AM
To: 'The Sandbox Discussion List'
Subject:
[Sndbox] Are there too many sick kids in day care or
school?
Are
there too many sick kids in day care or school?
Probably -
Pediatricians estimate that 58 percent of their young patients go
to child care or school even when ill, according to a Gallup
survey. This despite the fact that 81 percent of mothers working
full-time have stayed home at times to care for a sick child.
Charles
Mims
http://www.the-sandbox.org
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