More than 500 students at a Pennsylvania high school have been given suspension notices for skipping at least a week’s worth of classes.
Officials at Harrisburg High School gave the notices to the students on Monday for accumulating too many unexcused absences. It’s all part of a crackdown by the school’s new principal, Fox 43 reported.
“Many parents send their child to school and think they’re going to class,” Principal Lisa Love told reporters on Wednesday. “I need to reach out because of the enormous number of students not going to class.”
She said students often go to school but then skip class and are loitering in hallways and other parts of the large school. The principal said she needed to do something “radical” to get students’ attention.
"If you're not in class, all you're here to do then is to wreak havoc upon the school and disrupt the work that we are trying to do here," Love said, according toPennLive. "And that's to focus on student achievement."
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6 comments:
Excellent.
Sounds "Old School" to me. We know that worked from first-hand experience. Continued best wishes in reaching the snowflakes.
Wish Maryland would let us do this. Can't even fail a kid now for not attending school or classes, much less suspend them.
Always amazed me, skip school, and get caught, you get more time out of school.
Seems like what the kid wanted in the first place, time away from school.
Maryland just recently changed all the rules. No more attendance requirements and no more punishment for for missing school or latenesses. We have lost control.
We have not lost control. We gave it up.
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