It also perpetuates the notion that girls are responsible for controlling boys’ behavior!

Oh u are doing poorly? No resources for u hehehe get gud

I've never understood this...even as adults...in our country if someone is trying to kill you and you defend yourself, you can be charged with assault...like what?!?!

Sports are focused on FAR too much at the schools by me. Whenever I drive past there are ALWAYS notices about games and whatever. School should be focused on education, not sports

We only had unexcused leave as punishable.

It also penalises children with disabilities who need time off to see specialists.

conditioning them to go to work ill

In my country at least, you often aren't allowed to sit for the final or the public board exams if your attendance isn't about 80% / 90%. This rule hasn't gone away even in the pandemic. :(

I hate this one too! Adults don't do this, why do we make kids coming school sick and spread it around? Not to mention trying to learn while I'll instead of recovering at home.

I got a Perfect Attendance award in the first and second grades. Towards the end of the year in third grade, I begged my mom to let me stay home for a day so that I wouldn't win it again. Walking to the front of the auditorium to receive it was embarrassing!

I've never understood this practice.

My son’s school has authorised absences and unauthorised absences. He had to have an attendance in the 90% range otherwise the school has to report it to the local authority.

I find it stupid . In Jamaica 🇯🇲 if you're sick simply don't show up and notify the teacher. But the states they want alot of paper work which I find invasive. You're not a machine and it's bad practice to indoctrinate kids into working despite being feeling sick and being punished for being 😷 🤒 🤢 🤮 sick.

I always thought it was to reward us for keeping good health too and never getting sick.

I just got a letter from my 5yr school saying if she misses 3 more days they will file with dcfs. The days in question? I was sick and couldn't get her ready or she was sick but not sick enough to go to the doctor. Ugh why do we need a Dr note for every little sneeze. What really gets me is they've been pushing keep you kid home if sick due to the panorama but when you do they penalize you.

THANK YOU!

I agree that the school is just a business. When it comes to attendance, the kids and the parents get punished if the kids don't show up for school. The school gets paid a certain amount of money for every kid that shows up to class. And they can send you to court for too many absences. They require a doctor's note if your child is sick. But I can't afford to be taking my kid to the doctor every single time they get sick. The time and the money it takes is too much. Sometimes the best thing to do is to just let them rest so that they can recover and get better. That's why this rule makes no sense either. And even if the parent calls letting them know that the child is sick, this is still considered an unexcused absence without a doctor's note.

Being healthy is a good idea. Dedication is to be rewarded

Never had perfect attendance as a high school student out sick for 2 week with pneumonia!Out sick for a horrible belly ache! Couldn't control was in so much pain!Don't think that is going to work on kids who actually get sick and have to stay home. Some children it might work for!

and awards from all for participation.....snowflake that were created are now working and crying.......

Having a doctor's note would excuse the absence and it wouldn't count

I remember this. in elementary school I wanted the price of perfect attendance and I ask my mom if I can do a perfect attendance for next year. My mom said it was impossible because I can get sick. I forgot about the price since then.

I remember showing up with strep once. We had a shop that you could spend school currency at, and got a free dollar every day; I always saved mine up.

Prepares them for the working world 🙄

That's mostly gone now with covid quarentines

Bullshit! Sick leave dont count! Just bad parents raising lazy c***s!

We've got school lunches in primary and secondary schools here...which are free and for low income families. A few years back they also instituted breakfast.

War crime :)

I hear that...we used to have hours of homework. Sometimes I just want to relax and sleep.

I remember the problem of buying school books when we were poor. But actually some college books are only purchased by a few dozen people on that particular course, so would not be produced without those purchases. So SOME people purchasing the book is important. However you acquire the book should not be anything to do with the college though.

I remember one time in digital technology class I developed a splitting pain below my stomach. I think it was trapped gas in my bowels or something. Anyway, I asked my teacher if I could go to the nurse, but she told me no because class was "almost over" and that I have to wait until it was finished before I could go. Except that class was over in an hour, so I had to stay seated in my chair, in agony, for an hour. Did I mention that digital technology was my last class that day? So school was over by the time class ended and I couldn't stay behind because then I'd be late and I can't be late because my mum had to pick up my brothers from their schools as well so I never got to the nurse. And then there was that other time where I nearly fainted in the mandatory religion class and I did have to go to the nurse and while my friend was leaving my schoolbag in the nurse's office, she told me that the substitute teacher was pissed at me for missing class.

Or when they call the bully and say "bullied kid said you did X" and when they deny it they just leave it there...like thanks for now increasing the bullying that already existed.

What in the name of all that is holy...

Zero tolerance sometimes meant Zero Effort or Zero Intelligence.

Same in my horrific catholic school. They would close the water fountain in the recess (10am and 13-15pm) so kids wouldnt play with the water. Even in the months of may and june. My region of spain (as most) gets easily to 30-40C in those months

I hinestly believe that some teachers enjoy making their kids suffer. I speak very fast and because of that i stutter if I read out loud. One of my teachers loved making me read all the time and kept smiling while some of the students laughted. Once i got so tired that i shut up and sat in the middle of a sentence and refused to ever read in her classes. Bitch

And is also a completely unnecessary cruelty!

Who does this? And where?

I've seen this time and time again...the systems is way to broken.

Our fire alarms were disabled. Once two kids tried to pull a prank activating them and we all realised that they were all off

My school: you should sleep at least 9 hours a night Also my school: you must wake up at 6 in the morning

"Also letting girls wear short skirts in summer" while at the same time cry out loud in case of shoulder free top or barely visible bra strap, I presume.

I had a Social Studies asshole teacher/coach who told the class that if a girl is getting raped, she should relax and enjoy it. I got up and walked out. I spoke up, and nothing was done, since he was a coach. I was 14. The good old 70's.

I was bullied and depressed to the point of dropping out for a month. I lived in black because I was fat and it seemed to help distract the bullies. So what happens? My English teacher tells the class she thinks I'm a Satanist.

I think Boomers were the last generation to not be required by society to have a college degree in order to get a job!

People talk about students being able to grade and review teachers as a joke but it would actually be a great idea (especially if it can be done anonymously)

School counselors are actually just stuck up baboons who expect bullies to obey you by telling them to stop. WTF?

How can that even be legal?

Ripping off a Kids insulin pump and yanking out the IV line because you are too stupid to see it isn’t a phone

For us it's textbooks that have "amendments" every year. Like, why should I trust you if you keep making mistakes. lol

Dress codes that are really different for boys and girls make no sense