student loans are a hit!

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Ok I’ll pick this article apart a bit before my jog:

“In other cases, children are skipping school because of mental health issues or because they feel disengaged after having their education derailed by the pandemic”

- Mental health issues yes. The pandemic, no. Stop with the pandemic excuse stuff, that’s old news. The problem with addressing their mental health issues is that a kid can refuse to participate in mental health services too. Can’t force a kid to talk to counselor, can you?


“School officials should meet parents where they are and ask, ‘What does your family need to get your kids in school?’ Sometimes, all it takes is a family feeling welcome in the school”

- Lol what a bunch of fairytale bullshit. Even if the schools asked this, which most don’t and instead tell the parent it’s their problem, the parent would say “I don’t know” to what the kid needs. In many situations the parents are actually trying a lot of different things

“There are many reasons why students miss school. … Punishing attendance problems fails to address the issues students face, from family responsibilities to barriers related to racism or inadequate support for disabilities”

- Lol what? Is this person actually talking to the kids? There’s 2 reasons the kids give me for not wanting to go, and it’s not poverty, disabilities or racism. They say they don’t like having to do school work and they don’t like being around other kids. But they don’t provide a racism reason, usually it’s just to their lower status on the social hierarchy and their own insecurities. Fucking racism, give me a break! Make more shit up please. Most of these schools are near-homogenous in race, either all white, all Hispanic, all black, etc just because of the area they are in

““Chronic absenteeism is a village-level problem that will take a collective approach to solve. If we all work together to call students back to the classroom.”

- Oh if we all work together? That sounds lovey doesn’t it? Too bad the schools don’t want to deal with that. Back in the day they would have truancy officers that would come grab the kids and drag them to school if needed (usually a lesson the kid only needed a few times). Now they tell the parent to go pound sand. And that’s even in front of me, they don’t even try to act different in front of outsiders