re: Students are increasingly refusing to go to school. It’s becoming a mental health crisis.

My wife is an elementary school teacher and by far the biggest problem with the public education system is the public. The education system needs work, but as long as parents allow their children to act like entitled brats or feral savages and refuse to discipline them, then we will continue to get these results. Good teachers are leaving not only due to poor pay, but also having to deal with entitled parents who are raising a soon to be generation of complete shitheads.

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about," said Demsky, whose son declined to be interviewed by USA TODAY but gave his mother permission to share their story. "It's very scary and parents feel a sense of helplessness." The two continued to struggle with school avoidance for four years with little guidance. In 2014, she created a website to offer families the help and support she couldn't find. The site eventually turned into the School Avoidance Alliance, which spreads awareness and educates learning facilities and families of school avoidant children.

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Ummmm maybe they should.....idk......have their asswhipped unless they go to school? That's how it worked when I was a kid and you know what, way more kids went to school! Imagine that

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School Avoidance Alliance estimate 5% to 28% of students in the country exhibit school avoidant behaviors at some point in their lives.

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Jesus fricking Christ, how the hell is there an organization for this? And why in the frick do we continue to over and over again trust statistics from organizations whose existence depends on those issues existing? They are always higher according to those orgs for some strange reason.....

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 "It's very scary and parents feel a sense of helplessness

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1. How about you slap the shite out of them?

2. Alternatively, Put their asses to work on a farm breaking their back with Gutierrez from across the border who will tell them all day they're a dumb frick for not being in school.

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It is high time that we re-tooled our education system.

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nah, it’s perfectly reasonable to expect 15 year old boys to sit in a desk for 8 hours a day

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nah, it’s perfectly reasonable to expect 15 year old boys to sit in a desk for 8 hours a day

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Its probably unreasonable to expect them to do it willingly, but its certainly reasonable to make them do it. If parents and teachers would go back to accepting its an antagonistic relationship, its cuts thru the bullshite and sets the rules of engagement.

I had at least a dozen students this year with 20+ absences each semester. One student had 47 absences in spring alone.

it’s easy to see how this developed:

1) Students are allowed to make up just about anything they want at any point once they get on SST. There’s no stigma or record of being on SST. It’s not like having an IEP.

2) Admins don’t want to deal with the headache of reporting truancy issues.

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The OT: “our school systems are so beyond fricked up”

“Those kids who refuse to go to school should get beaten”

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Lots of people here can't understand cause/effect.

Schools socialize kids into dysfunctional lifestyles.

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My sister has people with 45 days absent in one semester and they make up all their work on computer and pass. It’s a freaking joke

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It was that way at the alternative school I taught.

They could not turn in work for 6 weeks, and do some makeup work at the last second to cover all of that missed work.

It was a fricking joke. Kids learned nothing except the system can easily be manipulated.

Correct. BUt communism isnt set up to help the winners. Its set up in order to destroy the successful and give the spoils to the loser.

The focus of progressivism is the ne'er do well.

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How bout we retool parenting kids and quit pandering to them? Kick them in their asses and make them do things. Especially things they don’t like. Worked for millions of kids before these.

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A big part of this problem is the teachers and schools are enabling the behavior too. I got a text from my kids teacher a few weeks ago that my some was basically playing sick, school nurse sent him back to class. He also got probably 10-15 notes this year that he was getting up and not doing his work.

My point is that the schools are now involving parents in enforcing their rules in a way that hadn’t been done in the past. I think this can go one of two ways at home: parents either enable it and give in or wind up lecturing/disciplining their kids for things they do at school. If everything flows through parents, some are inevitably going to give in. Over time, the schools have lost the ability to enforce their own rules

I agree with the quotes post, but my personal experience is fatigue in trying to correct behavior that I wasn’t even there to see, and I think it dilutes my ability to discipline when I feel it is timely. Now making sure your kid goes to school is absolutely a parents responsibility, I just don’t want to hear about every time he doesn’t want to be there.

As far as school avoidance goes, school isn’t for everyone. We need to embrace more skill based learning for those that struggle with memory based learning.