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on Cracking Down on Truancy
In response to the comment about misssing a lot of school and still graduating. I understand Portland Public schools will continue to advance kids from grade to grade even when they have all F's.
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on Cracking Down on Truancy
Fines for parents should only be in extreme cases. If there is drug abuse or family violence. How many of these kids are not having those problems? I would suspect the majority of these kids would benefit from school counseling. Parents are busy, teachers and students bully, students are bored,etc. WE need to put money into our schools educating our kids and have counselors, nurses, librarians and other support staff at school every school day at every school!
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on Cracking Down on Truancy
Do these schools have counselors available every school day? Our experience with Portland Public schools is schools not have enough counselors to help these kids. If counselors are available they will head off many problems before it gets to extreme truancy. But now, Once a problem is identified there are not counselors on hand adequately. Sorry you can only have a problem on Tuesday and Friday.
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