Summary- Starting Tuesday September 3rd, Truancy will no longer be a crime in the state of Texas. This changes the way the truant students will be treated in the court system. This change also: gets rid of any unpaid fines, gets rid of all warrants, and gives back drivers license to people who lost them in court. Parents and students can still face fines, but not nearly as severe.
Analysis- Though this may not be a problem for me, this will definitely affect other students in the way they treat high school. In high school you cant afford to lose even one day because so much stuff happens in that one day. People can take advantage of this if they did not do their homework and get an extra day to do it and not get any punishment because they were "sick." The Dallas county judge said "Its going to lead to fewer cases, and ultimately, that can be a good thing." I completely disagree with that because you are basically asking america to become less educated after we spend so much money to get our students educated.
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/education/2015/08/31/starting-tuesday-truancy-not--crime--texas/71490134/
Although there will always be those who take advantage of certain situations, I find this to be helpful to the students who actually were sick for long periods of time or have outside circumstances that they cannot control. I think it will also help eliminate many unnecessary truancy cases for the courts. -Nicole Chatham 6th period
ReplyDeleteLauren Bush; 9th; Comment #2
ReplyDeleteI do think this will lead to more student absences. Without the threat of going to court, unmotivated students will have no reason not to miss another day of school. I wonder if schools will change absence policies now that the responsibly is in their hands.
It has nothing to do with becoming less educated. Attendance rates aren't gonna go up or down because of this. What this is doing is lessening the punishment for not going to school. Because previously kids could be jailed fined exuberant amounts (despite many kids that are involved in intentional absences might be in families that simply can't afford it). And when you have kids tried in front of a judge for absences sometimes without even being allowed an attorney to plea there case it causes problems. All these extra things like court and jail cause the kid to lose more time in school which defeats the purpose and contributes to severly limiting there education. Plus you think schools are properly funded that's a joke so many schools in poverty striken areas don't get nearly enough money while rich communities generally are sitting on heaps of money
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