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You can’t require mandatory attendance AND have zero-X policies. It’s impossible. Something has to give.
by bombcar 1y ago
You can’t require mandatory attendance AND have zero-X policies. It’s impossible. Something has to give.
- Bender 1y agoThe attendance of the violent kids will have to give.
- dsego 1y agoNot everybody even deserves school. Unfortunately, society benefits from everyone having at least some education, so making school non compulsory could have more detrimental effects with overall poorer education in the populace. With that said, I'm all for removing disruptive kids from classrooms, but they would need a more controlled environment, which is hardly feasible.
- bombcar 1y agoWe used to have them, but most have been removed or are no longer considered acceptable options - various boarding schools for “troubled” children or military school.
- logicchains 1y agoI'd wager if anyone actually studied the effect of mandatory attendance on that bottom percentile of persistently violent, disruptive students, they'd find almost no improvement in their outcomes. Yet their presence has a demonstrable negative effect on other students and teachers alike. The right approach would be to base attendance policies on science, not wishful ideology.
- bombcar 1y agoAs usual when the realities are ignored for fairy-tale dream stories. The rich and powerful don’t care to try to fix it because they have their kids in private schools anyway, and the upper middle class can move to areas the worst poor can’t afford. So only the working poor have to suffer. But at least they’re told it is a righteous suffering.