Pressuring parents SF slashes truancy

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Pressuring parents SF slashes truancy
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Tue, 06-09-2009 - 10:05am

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/09/MN911832BT.DTL

Too severe? Good strategy?



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Tue, 06-09-2009 - 4:20pm
I wonder if they actually did punish parents beyond

 

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Tue, 06-09-2009 - 5:50pm
I salute the city of San Francisco.
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Wed, 06-10-2009 - 6:41pm
I was surprised that elementary aged children already had lousy attendance, not just middle or more prevalent, high schoolers. Just really tragic how dumbed down kids can get with cutting school, no parental focus or value or involvement in their children's education, etc. I've heard of punitive fines to parents as well being tried. Now we have to pressure parents to get to the kids?! Used to be parents doing their job. Now schools, the judicial system, has to shoulder parental responsibility to see that kids attend school? Good grief! (shaking head)


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"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.

It is the little shadow which runs across the grass

and loses itself in the sunset.



- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator



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Dog fighting is cruelty, which is a human activity and a human illness.

It's not the dog's fault.

All dogs need to be evaluated as individuals."

--Tim Racer, one of BAD RAP's founders



http://www.badrap.org/rescue/



Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket



Mika Dog




"All things share the same breath;

the beast, the tree, the man.

The Air shares its spirit with

all the life it supports."

--Chief Seattle



"If there are no dogs in Heaven,

then when I die I want to go where they went."

~Will Rogers



"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress

can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

~~Mahatma Gandhi











Blessings,

Gypsy

)O(



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Thu, 06-11-2009 - 9:15am

"Now we have to pressure parents to get to the kids?! Used to be parents doing their job. Now schools......"


Both parents working full time some even working two jobs leaves little time to be parents.


I couldn't have played hooky too much without fear of my parents finding out. Then there'd be hell to pay.

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Registered: 02-19-2008
Thu, 06-11-2009 - 9:24am
Didn't courts used to have truant officers?