Lawmakers in Indiana are at odds about whether families should be punished for school truancy.
Last week, the Indiana State House voted to approve a Senate Bill that pushes schools to intervene if elementary school students miss significant learning days without an excuse or parental notification.
WFYI reports that nearly one in five Indiana students missed more than 18 days of school last year. The House version of the bill would require schools to report habitual truants missing 10 unexcused days or more and would require prosecutors to notify parents of those referrals.
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Kids got a taste of e-learning during the scamdemic, and now they don’t want to go sit in a classroom. Seriously, who didn’t see this one coming?
Note that most adults would prefer to work from home also, so let’s not paint the kids as slackers for this. The real question is, what are the schools going to do about it? I think the days of traditional attendance based education are over, and it’s time to rethink the model we are using.