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[–]Ferretman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Very good; that was exactly the right decision.

Now every student's parents have been notified that there's a problem; until she acted the kids were apparently just skipping out. This causes the parents to ask the kids what the heck is going on, and then some interesting conversations will happen.

[–]Canbot 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

You are speaking from a white perspective and making a lot of incorrect assumptions. These parents all think the principal is stupid for suspending anyone for absences because "it's punishing them with what they are being punnished for". Menawhile they take zero responsibility for any of it. It is the school's fault thst they can't get the kids to behave.

[–]Ferretman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Heh....I'm speaking from a "white perspective"? Fascinating.

Doesn't make it wrong at all.

Some good "sent to your room" time combined with holding them back a grade would likely work wonders here.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

would likely work wonders here

You did not understand my comment. Your white perspective is not relevant to whether it is good or bad, but how it will be recieved and the impact it will have. You still think this could improve their behaviour. Your entire analysis assumes the behaviour and thought patterns you encoded in your brain for humans which you use to understand the world. These are very deeply ingrained beliefs that you never think about. Your entire life experiences come from almost entirely white people, and the select black people who escaped the ghetto.

I gew up in Chicago. It is a different breed here and other left wing big cities. I guarantee that not one of them will have inproved attendance or behaviour, and there is a good chance they see this as an unfair attack on them which they will use as justification to retaliate and behave even worse.