What happens at Belle Hall Elementary when students are absent? Are parents called if they haven't notified the school of their illness?It does not appear so from the P & C's story on the flight of two 10-year-old boys to the woods. According to the report,
"The boys, neighbors in the Belle Hall community and pupils at Belle Hall Elementary School, didn't go to school Tuesday morning, Police Sgt. Steve Meadows said. He said that when they didn't show up at home after school and their parents talked to their friends, they learned the boys had planned to run away."Let's get this straight.
- The boys did not attend school at all on Tuesday;
- Their "friends" attended school all day and knew the boys had run away;
- Their parents were blissfully unaware of the boys' status until school was out.
I don't like this story. Belle Hall shouldn't either.
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I have worked at 2 elementary schools. I have never heard of anyone calling to check on a student the 1st day they are absent. Maybe the 2nd or 3rd day...how much time to you think teachers have in a day? They are busy teaching full classrooms. Don't make this out to be the schools problem.
I would never, never expect the teacher to call. But it is the school's problem if parents think their children are at school and they aren't.
Funny. My kid gets a visit from an officer for one day of absence. Could it be WHERE he goes to school and what COLOR he is?
I am not sure, I have never seen a truancy officer at our school...maybe it is where your child goes to school. Maybe I should be demanding that kind of attention to detail because of WHERE my child goes and what COLOR he is? It works both ways.
But... I have been in the school office when there were as many as 60 children out in one day...of course this is cold and flu season but it would take hours to call that many parents. Who is going to do this? The same person that is busy checking for address verifications?
Don't parents call the school to tell it that the child is absent? If not, such a policy would reduce such calls home to manageable numbers.
At our high school, we have automated phone calls to parents whose children are absent.
Now that makes sense...esp in High School. I guess if they can send us an automated message that we owe $2 on our child's lunch account they could send an automated message that our child is absent.
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