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13,000 students in East Baton Rouge Parish schools are chronically absent
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:39 am
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:39 am
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13,000 students in East Baton Rouge Parish schools are chronically absent.
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There’s 42,590 students in the school system. So more than 30% are chronically absent? I remember as a kid having the runs and my mother was still dragging my arse to school. How times have changed.
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Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:41 am to redstickrick
The solution is more money. Please vote to increase property taxes.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:41 am to redstickrick
lots of kids getting the sniffles to stay home and scroll tiktok
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:41 am to redstickrick
If they want to drop out, let them. The fact we have students that are required to go to school when the student or parents have zero interest in being educated is asinine.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:41 am to redstickrick
Accountability is so last century.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:43 am to redstickrick
Believe in the Science. STAY HOME!
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:45 am to redstickrick
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East Baton Rouge Parish schools
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:47 am to redstickrick
Luckily all those tax renewals just passed.
That should help fix it, right?
That should help fix it, right?
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:48 am to Giantkiller
I wonder how many of those are ones that get counted the first week of school to secure funding
Posted on 5/9/25 at 10:52 am to MikeD
funding count date has been in October
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:05 am to wallowinit
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Accountability is racist.
FIFY
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:09 am to danilo
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The solution is more money. Please vote to increase property taxes.
People can’t be bothered to take 2 minutes out of their Saturday to vote.
The libs surely show up tho
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:13 am to redstickrick
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The legislative focus on truancy in the late 1990s led to the creation of the Truancy Assessment and Service Center. TASC is a taxpayer-funded statewide program for Louisiana’s most at-risk K-5 students. Schools have recommended over 900,000 children to the program.
From the moment a child presents attendance problems, school staff notify TASC, which can help the most at-risk families. Case managers assist with anything from school uniforms to navigating housing and health care resources.
The first step though, is locating the family — often a challenge with changing addresses and phone numbers, said Jennie Ponder, the program’s director: “It's just the nature of the beast.”
Ponder’s office has uncovered 9-year-olds who never sat in a classroom.
Here we see the classic case of a tentacle of the taxpayer-funded nanny state (TASC) acting as parents to the parents of these truant kids. What a surprise that nothing has gotten better in decades...
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:13 am to redstickrick
Their parents are probably absent as well
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:18 am to TTB
In the state I was born and educated in, a school received funds for each child that was educated, EACH day that child attended class.
The head counts were done daily. (It was a reward to be one of the high schoolers who kept those records.)
The head counts were done daily. (It was a reward to be one of the high schoolers who kept those records.)
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:19 am to redstickrick
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13,000 students in East Baton Rouge Parish schools are chronically absent.
Yet how many of those kids’ parents pay any property taxes to fund said schools??
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:29 am to danilo
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The solution is more money. Please vote to increase property taxes.
It's "for the kids!"
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:33 am to redstickrick
Stop letting them get all the free passes flunk them out of highschool and make the GED essentially free and allow them to grow up faster. All the free passes I hear about from the kids in school today graduating and essentially never showing up or scraping by on everything.
Let em flop and get hit in the face by life a little sooner.
Let em flop and get hit in the face by life a little sooner.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:33 am to SwampMonster
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Yet how many of those kids’ parents pay any property taxes to fund said schools??
Of course they do. Part of their rent is used to pay property taxes owed by the owner of the home or apartment building.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:34 am to Oswald
Is this apart of the no child left behind bs?
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