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

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Gen Xers taking the slacker thing a bit too far

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Keep my name and generation out ya mouf.

I fricking hated school. This was also 30 years ago. The crisis was knowing I was going to catch the 2" wide belt when I got home if I fricked up

Why are they given an option?

The public educational system has been broken for decades and it's getting worse every year! Kids don't come to school because they have no parenting at home and parents know their kid can stay home and will still get promoted. As an educator, I wish I could say things are going to get better, but they're not! So much goes on in schools that you never hear about and that's how those in power want it to remain. Next time you hear some glowing educational statistic, just know it's 99% total BS!

Personally, I had a student miss more than 100 days several years ago and passed! He failed my class, which is a core subject, but he was passed on anyway. I did my part, so those who changed the grades have to live with that, not me!

This second incident is even more insane! Several years ago, a local school system was promoting 100 percent graduation rates, which anyone with half a brain knew it was total crap. I was teaching summer school and the guy next door was a high school teacher and I teased about not wearing his 100% high school graduation t-shirt to school. He laughed and said he doesn't promote lying.

He proceeded to tell me that he had a student that had not come to his class the entire second half of the school year. Of course, he gave her a zero because that's what she deserved. His grade level administrator approached him and told him he knew they couldn't accept that. He told the administrator he gave her what she deserved, but he was reminded they had to have 100 percent graduate. He was furious and went in and gave her all 60s. The next day the administrator approaches him again and said he was making it too obvious. He said he raised his voice and told the administrator to tell him exactly what grade to put in, but the administrator walked out. He said he went in and put 60, 65 throughout and the girl walked.

Let me be clear, there are a lot of incredible teachers that want to teach and some wonderful students that want to learn, but those in charge are more concerned about perception, not reality! Our educational system does need a major overhaul, but it has swung so far to the left, I don't even know if that's possible!

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If I can expound upon this, my two boys would have their "school work" done before Noon and were free to spend the rest of their day as they please during the "GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!!!" So it was a bit of a shock and bewildering for them to have to return to leaving for school at 7:30a then get home at 4:30p and have some homework on top of that.

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my friend’s daughter is in high school - and her daughter said her teachers just tell them to watch the recorded lessons from Covid on their laptop in the classroom

Why go to school?

8th grade, I tried to pretend I didn't feel good one day because I didn't feel like going. My mom said ok, but you're staying on the couch all day. This was late 80s and we didn't have cable. Got bored and taught myself how to juggle.