As remote learning creates more distance between school districts and students, school and state officials are clinging to control however they can. From sending Child Protective Services (CPS) agents to investigate charges of neglect in homes where children missed Zoom classes last spring, to proposing “child well-being checks” in homes this fall, government schools and related agencies are panicking over parents having increased influence over their children’s care and education during the pandemic.
A front page article in Boston Sunday Globe days ago describes the experiences of several parents who were interrogated by CPS agents last spring when their children missed remote classes or failed to submit homework assignments amidst pandemic-related school shutdowns. Some parents didn’t have Internet access and were blindsided by the CPS investigations of “virtual truancy.”One Latina mother featured in the Globe story is Em Quiles, who, like many parents last spring, scrambled to care for her children and continue to work during tremendous upheaval and uncertainty.
More
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
13 comments:
Wicomico County has not communicated AT ALL with parents who don't have access to internet beyond saying they're looking into options. Super helpful with only 2 weeks until school starts.
That's a f'ing joke!! I have to travel through Salisbury at around 5:15 am and at EVERY convince store I passed there were groups of junior high kids hanging out everywhere
I hope you are not suggesting that there is even one household that is lacking outside communication with the world or any where else. These “keds” have high end phones in their pockets that you and I don’t even relate to. Or maybe you are suggesting throw some more money at them. This is ludicrous.
I retired over twenty years ago and they were out there all night way before I stopped working.Ask any cop or service worker on duty through the night.
CPS is going to be Very Busy.
Didn't know Truancy was still a word used in the english language.
Virtual Truancy - now thats a joke!
HAHAHAHAHA
10:17--don't believe you. At 5:15 if any teens are up at that hour, they are somewhere playing video games, no hanging out at the Royal Farms or 7/11. Stop lying to make a point.
10:04 time to adapt. People were saying the same about newspapers and the telephone I'm sure.
Adapt how? If you live in an area without internet you can't magically create it. You can't just sell your house and move at the drop of a hat. What's your brilliant adaptation?
Home school your children if you can
I'm warning you, I'm not going to have a spy device in my home and live in constant fear of this with my children. First person we're coming to is the one who implements it. You can call who you want, you can threaten with what you want, but it won't save your ass from what's to come.
My kids aren't ghetto trash. We live in the country and my YOUNG children don't have phones because that's not appropriate at their age. Not everyone fits into your stereotype. I'm saying my kids and others without internet should be able to come into a school building to learn.
I wish it were true but if you think I'm as shallow as yourself go by royal farm store on the corner of snow hill road and college Ave or the shore stop on eastern shore and college. Hell I've seen them out in the parking lot of the YMCA at 6 in the morning.
Post a Comment