WE CAN KEEP OUR KIDS IN SCHOOL

Let’s get our kids back attending School & healthy-mentally being there -so they can actually enjoy it! Wouldn’t that be different! By D. Parker Pres. FVYD

For our kids, they’re not being present in school  is currently a path to nowhere—for our kids–that has to change!

I get a nagging pain in my gut with this notice from the US DOE (this time Posted on Linked- in) suggesting they want to know how to improve on Attendance in Schools. 

 I could not hold back, the answer is simple “JUST FIX THE PROBLEM.”  

I am very tired of their US Educator Management Team wanting new ideas on how to solve this problem. They do not have any means to fix it & the ONE we have for the US DOE that does correct the problem-they ignore. Even when our short program that fixes most kids issues who stay out from school is simple…so simple. Educators won’t look!

When schools keep calling the parents, they soon isolate the parents. Parents have to work-so they may yell at their kids and this futile cycle begins again & again. Then many teens just disconnect or disrespect their parents & do not go to school anyway. This is unsafe for all. 

When kids stay home & out of school (& for teens that means often out on the streets)!  Every year when Absenteeism is brought up– it is not resolved   It is bigger than the kids just staying home chronically sick—maybe the young ones  in elementary school are ill.  But not the teens, they are not all physically sick. A large percentage are emotionally sick of being bored in school or bullied there. When they are out of school Teens do not stay home- they wander and/or hang out with others who share the same fate. This has been a danger to them- as idle minds try to keep busy & with this struggle that is not always easy. And soon, they become a safety problem for their parents who try to work (some two jobs). How long can this go on & the teens stay safe? Parents…ever had your liquor bottles watered down?… or pills taken! I worked youth crisis-you be amazed how creative these smart kids are! 

The number is more than 6% of students out on a given day prior to COVID & bigger 6% -12% after COVID. It is NOT a new problem. COVID did not make it worse -the problem never changed. COVID MADE IT OK -better even to stay home. School had always been hard for these youth & even bad (i.e., unhealthy) for this large group of kids after 3rd grade.  

Elementary: Those young kids with chronic poor health are few in number. While others are always anxious at school many have gastroenteritis or headaches a lot. While others just worry themselves sick. (I have talked with several of these kids on that youth crisis unit).

Middle: When teens stay home for bullying (e.g., sent home), and/or from being bullied and/or gossiped about or out due to poor grades; they are ill.  They also stay out as teens -due to poor clothes or just because they are feeling poor i.e., depressed to death literally-from not being included in the peer groups they want to be included in.

Adolescents may even worry that others might see they have no reading skills. So, they isolate.  They can’t go to group studies or anywhere to expose that or any limitation to their peers. Anxiousness become a living norm. Then on top of this, Educators make new names for them like Dyslexia and ADD etc. & think you are doing them a favor. You do not know how to fix this Absenteeism problem, so why continue doing this! When it is doing more harm than good.  Like they need another reason to fail, more. It is time we wake up & fix the FIRST problem that causes all of the above ones mentioned here. 

And instead return them for a NEW QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE CLASSROOM! 

As you know me by now, I have had this answer here at Future Visions Youth Dev. Inc. FVYD Org. 207-236-4736 for decades.   SEE here the Testimonials www.myfuturevisioninc.com –and with just this very short inclusion program for you -as was suggested by ESSA:2015 Obama FED LAW -& it is time the US & State DOE does its job!

ASIDE: I expect we will be talking with Pres. Obama & K. Harris Pres./ T. Walz VP very soon about all of this denial of ESSA Fed. Law -done for years by the US/State DOE with 501c3 Non-profit Essa Innovative initiative NEW programs!