Die Anwesenheitszahlen von Oberstufen- und Grundschülern sinken in Ontario: Daten

Coercing students to be in class when they don’t want to be there is terrible for education.

This society is burning, young people dgaf anymore…

This is how society crumbles, kids don’t get educated, won’t have critical thinking skills, listen to social media and AI all day

Schools and CAS have no power or authority to make students attend school. So they learn and parents learn they don’t have to go. It gets worse in high school because the government actually makes it worse by demanding high graduation rates. So it’s better for boards to keep non attenders on roll and pass them with 50s than to fail them. Students learn they don’t need to attend to pass.

Why don’t they prepare the students for university instead? You don’t get any marks for showing up at university (unless showing up implies you’re handing in work to be graded).

Grade 11 and Grade 12 students should be marked on their work alone. Whether they learn the material in class or on their own is their choice. Why force them to sit in a desk all day if they can learn the material in an hour?

In class tests and exams plus assignments. Oh wait! Is that too much marking for teachers?

Parents need to start leaning in on their parenting… consistently holding their kids to a standard. It’s not just high schoolers and students over 12yrs old. Part of the problem is some parents treat schools and teachers as a co-parent. They don’t potty train children before sending them to school bc the school staff will do it. They send shoes with laces with kids they haven’t taught how to tie them because they think we should teach the kids to do it. They don’t fill out field trip forms, blow off important meetings, and do nothing when their kid continually hits teachers. They don’t follow through with consequences. People need to stop expecting the overburdened educational system to raise their kids for them. I know all this because I live it, day to day. The change in young children since I began is disheartening. Granted, I work in a middle of the road school, but we can’t love them better. Grown ups need to step up and do the work. Period.

how many days does 90% attendance equal out to? because i know quite a few kids in sports who miss days of school because they have a hockey tournament

Is it good or bad that the government is trying to have students attend class? Is it good or bad that our tax dollars are being spent on students not showing up? Is it good or bad that teachers should be teaching a full class that they’re paid to teach?

If students aren’t showing up, would that mean more teacher layoffs and school closures? Do we want students have the education they need for higher schooling or jobs?

If a student doesn’t want to show up to class, they are more likely to fail. Is that the school’s fault? Would more or less funding help that? If they have an absence or sick or otherwise, they should be provided with the work to do or provide a doctor’s note like any job. Would this not prepare them for the real world? What if an employee constantly fails to show up for their work?

Do they not like what they’re being taught?……

The biggest problem is not failing out kids because “science” has proved that it’s good for kids to never fail and “science” has proved that if they fail they have a disability so we need to give the school more money since it’s societies fault for not supporting them.

There’s no such thing as the schools failing the students or the parents failing the kids or the kids failing themselves. We have a zero accountability system where grades are just an arbitrary product of broader societal forces outside of societal control so everybody needs to be passed. This is so much better than the old system where a few kids would fail and they would have to get a GED or adult grad in their 20s. We have achieved diversity, equity, and inclusion and we have achieved maximal progress.

Sure we have kids able to do less stuff than kids who graduated 20 years ago but the important thing is that we started calling more of them mentally and learning impaired so we’re actually supporting them. We’re pushing them all through graduation and that means they’re succeeding.

Who knew spending years intentionally destroying public education by under funding it would cause kids to be disenfranchised from going.

Let’s think of a solution!

What? Increase public education budgets, higher more teachers and repair crumbling schools as well as adopt more contemporary and improved education standards? NO! What? NO! Make attendance count more! Also blame the parents and the feds!