Quantcast
Channel: Comments on: Truants
Browsing all 8 articles
Browse latest View live

By: Patricia Kokinos

Dear June, This is a terrific article that really hits all the issues. I’m sure, during your observations in your local Starbuck’s, you felt the absurdity of rounding up kids like cattle, dealing, as...

View Article



By: Richard Melillo

Common sense and new thinking. Who would have thought that the changes needed are finally visible. Thank you both! Rich

View Article

By: Bill

Deci is disconnected from the inner city plight. Make schools fun and relevant, thats already done. What next, allow teachers to do what they want?- Oh Yeah he said that as well. Things must change...

View Article

By: Mick

As a former truant, these tendered reforms address many of the reasons for my truancy, particularly the dual-enrollment option. Many of my truant days were spent delving into mathematics, history,...

View Article

By: john thomson

The challenge is even harder in tumultuous inner-city schools, and NCLB made things worst, and not just because of the increased drill and kill. Under NCLB, administrators must make absences go away,...

View Article


By: Peter Skurkiss

In reading June Kronholz’s “The challenges of keeping kids in school” [Winter 2011], a thought kept popping into my mind. Namely, what good does it do to round up chronically truant kids and put them...

View Article

By: #1 Truant

Well I am 15 and only went to school 6 times in the last month and a half. I think I am also going to skip michigans MEAP. My reasons, well I have alot but only going to share a few so I can keep this...

View Article

By: Julia

These school laws do no help anyone.What about kids who have psychological issues or physical health problems? Should they be forced to attend school where they don’t fit in and are made fun of? Is...

View Article

Browsing all 8 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images